Criminal Minds

[rachelmanija]

Have gotten sucked in. Spent entire weekend watching first 4 discs of season 1. Am a little bit in love with entire male cast, except for Jason Gideon whom I enjoy watching but who sort of scares me with his resemblance to various men in mentoring positions I've known who got off a little too much on their own wisdom, compassion, and influence over

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[sartorias]

While you got addicted to that, I got addicted to Big Love. i have never, in all my years of TV watching, seen such a wide range of fascinating female characters. Ever.

[rachelmanija]

Oh, that sounds good!

[ide_cyan]

I love the female characters on Big Love, although it's a show where several of them are living in extremely oppressive situations.

Also, Rachel, I'm not sure about the specifics of your PTSD, but I would mention that the Juniper Creek stuff might possibly be triggery in some regards?

[rachelmanija]

Thanks for the heads'-up. Cult child abuse?

I'm not triggered per se by particular themes or plotlines, though occasionally there will be a visual that happens to resonate unpleasantly with something in my psyche. But since those are completely unpredictable, I don't bother trying to avoid them.

[ide_cyan]

Child abuse, yes, not usually graphic but pervasive, most obviously in the set-up where creepy old patriarchs arrange polygamist marriages for girls who are still children, and throw teenage boys out of the compound, and preach religious teachings that reject homosexuality, and further abuses facilitated by the set-up, and implied in the adults who have been shaped by it. (Oh, Wanda. And all the others.)