<story><title>Weekly Top 10 lists of the most-watched TV and films</title><url>https://top10.netflix.com/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hhmc</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s arguably something more insidious about pretending murder is a pg-13 act.&lt;p&gt;To paraphrase Michael Haneke: Violence must shown in all its vicious detail, The truth is obscene</text></item><item><author>nelblu</author><text>I am probably an outlier but I can&amp;#x27;t stand shows that are too gory or violent. I prefer the old school shows where even when someone was murdered you could hardly see a drop of blood. These days almost any show that involves any kind of crime depicts so much violence and blood, I find it extremely disturbing. Is this just me? I really hope not.</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s fun to look at the numbers for Squid Game (under TV&amp;#x2F;Non-English) over time. The first week on September 13 was better than most English TV shows...and then the next few weeks nearly &lt;i&gt;10x&lt;/i&gt;ed that first week performance. Even now, two months later, it beats most of the Top English TV shows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voussoir</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of Haneke&amp;#x27;s work and I agree that depicting the truth, even obscene truths, is an important role of art. But in this case I am reminded of the &amp;quot;Thermian Argument&amp;quot; [1]. Squid Game isn&amp;#x27;t truth, it&amp;#x27;s fiction, and the authors of that fiction chose how much violence is needed to tell their story. If they go out of their way to make sure everybody gets murdered, it might not reveal a whole lot of truth.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t watched any of Squid Game, I just didn&amp;#x27;t want to miss a chance to share Folding Ideas&amp;#x27;s work.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=AxV8gAGmbtk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=AxV8gAGmbtk&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Weekly Top 10 lists of the most-watched TV and films</title><url>https://top10.netflix.com/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hhmc</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s arguably something more insidious about pretending murder is a pg-13 act.&lt;p&gt;To paraphrase Michael Haneke: Violence must shown in all its vicious detail, The truth is obscene</text></item><item><author>nelblu</author><text>I am probably an outlier but I can&amp;#x27;t stand shows that are too gory or violent. I prefer the old school shows where even when someone was murdered you could hardly see a drop of blood. These days almost any show that involves any kind of crime depicts so much violence and blood, I find it extremely disturbing. Is this just me? I really hope not.</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s fun to look at the numbers for Squid Game (under TV&amp;#x2F;Non-English) over time. The first week on September 13 was better than most English TV shows...and then the next few weeks nearly &lt;i&gt;10x&lt;/i&gt;ed that first week performance. Even now, two months later, it beats most of the Top English TV shows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Riseed</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a full range of possible depictions on the scale from &amp;quot;pretending&amp;quot; murder is G-rated to showing gratuitous violence and unnecessary gory detail.&lt;p&gt;For example, it&amp;#x27;s largely sufficient to the plot and character development to know that Batman&amp;#x27;s parents were killed by a mugger when Bruce was just a boy, and that Uncle Ben was killed by a petty criminal whom Spiderman had the chance to apprehend (but declined to do so). Nothing is added by showing entry&amp;#x2F;exit wounds, slow pans over puddles of and spurts of blood, or any other sort of gore porn.</text></comment>