>>10822473You’ve managed to capture the feeling I’ve had regarding shows like this for some time now - thank you anon. They seem senseless after the past 15 years of making the same “joke”. Sure, hyperrealistic depictions or morbid acts can serve a literary purpose when used sparingly. But you lose that punch when every joke has the same punchline. At this point it seems to me as though constant exposure to the truly dark side of humanity in a comics setting has twisted a lot of people’s sense of humor toward sadism.
For a better example of the use of shock imagery for a storytelling purpose, I turn to It’s Always Sunny. The show masks itself as a quirky sitcom but occasionally, and often without warning, pulls back the curtain and reminds the audience that these characters are supposed to be real, fucked up people.
