Hearthly wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Conversely, I wouldn't recommend Mimi watches it. Logically you are correct, but logic and emotional response don't always go hand in hand.
It's a distressing programme to watch and could certainly be a trigger for anxiety. (all the more so if you think it will be a trigger, these things are often self-reinforcing...)
I didn't actually recommend Mimi watch it, though. My point was that if she's concerned about 'Chernobyl happening again' then that shouldn't be a possibility, that was all. (And even there I caveat it as being 'chilling'.)
I also noted that I found it 'very upsetting', so not exactly light afternoon entertainment.
It’s not so much the fear of it happening again (which, though real in some degree at least, I know my watching will not prevent or cause) but I’d almost certainly turn the last moments and deaths of all those real life people over my head obsessively in quiet moments, and then think about their families, and it would just stay with me.
I was once sitting next to someone watching something on a computer screen and idly looked over. It was some young man on top of a train, perhaps in India, and anyway, he dies. It was just chance I looked over. It was worse because that wasn’t a dramatisation of a real event, but an actual human’s last moments. Must be... nine, ten years ago. Still it bothers me. Anyway, it genuinely sounds as good as it does chilling, but I’ll give it a wide berth, just in case. Plus, there’s plenty to watch nowadays. I think Killing Eve is back on.