In the tub with a razorblade just straight up shows you her doing it and I believe it was correctly if memory serves.
I didn't feel the way others did about the show, but I've never been full blown suicidal. Have your run of the mill depression and a lot of the "I want to die / wish I was dead / etc" thoughts that come with. But haven't yet gotten to the point where I think of it as an option so I imagine it hits differently.
I watched that show the whole way through and pretty much had the polar opposite reaction to what you typically see people say on reddit who bash it.
Though after I want to say the 2nd season the 3rd kind of jumps the shark. The 2nd was stretching too iirc but not nearly as bad.
I don't know that this show would actually help people or anything, but I never felt like it romanticized these things either like people say.
It's very graphic, very detailed, and also still kind of filmed in an upsetting but weirdly beautiful way. People talk about "romanticizing" suicide a lot and I think it's difficult to get across in a Reddit post, but it's not necessarily making the idea of suicide look positive. It's these detailed, graphic depictions that still basically leave a "beautiful corpse" type of scenario.
It's an old concept, you find it in literature going back centuries, the idea of a "beautiful death." Copycat suicides are even sometimes referred to as "the Werther effect" because of a freaking Goethe novel in which the protagonist (Werther) kills himself and supposedly there was widespread copycat suicides from young men who related to his struggles. That probably wasn't real to the extent claimed, but copycat suicides are a thing and depictions of detailed suicide that people relate to can trigger it. So this isn't a new thing, but it's something we need to be more aware of.
I hope that makes sense, I can answer other questions if you want. It's been awhile since I saw it in a training so forgive any errors, but I distinctly remember getting uncomfortable because I did deal with depression and suicidal thoughts when I was younger and I know I would have identified with her and probably fantasized about it.
It shows her slitting her wrists in the bathtub. It’s been a few years and I don’t care to rewatch it, but I believe the shot shows basically the whole act.
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u/goose5184 27d ago
I’ve never seen the show. How does she kill herself and why is the scene so bad as you describe?
Not trying to disagree at all just trying to understand.