Tragic Insights from TV

 On and off over the times it has been on, I've watched what they call "the Chicago shows" - especially Chicago PD, with my love of crime!, as evidenced everywhere from my bookshelves to my saved websites to yes my viewing choices;  but also Chicago Med and Chicago Fire.  ~ ~ ~

Last evening, I decided to 'catch-up on the backstory' and watch the first season of Chicago Fire. ~ ~ ~

As I sat here investing precious hours I'll never get back, I further and further felt like I needed a good, long, soaking shower -- in fact, I did so after an exhausted few hours sleep, with prayer, devotional reading, writing, and God thoughts.  ~ ~ ~ 

I won't sit here and let you label me "anti" this or that.  What disturbed me so greatly was so sexually disordered there lives were, in toto!  Multiple partners .... a woman who goes to the nth degree for her fellow, enabling him to actually get through some physical distress, and he stutters and struggles to even call her his girlfriend, which was surprising news to her, also! even tho she'd slept with him & etc. ..... persons taking as a matter of course, that you'll have sex fairly quickly, and then 'progress' to living together.  The open lesbian who flounces around the shared space of her apartment with her male best friend, not even thinking for a second how being half-naked does to a guy's mind, even when he knows she plays for the other team (see, amongst others, Warren Farrell's writing on this).   In the whole first season, I saw one successfully married couple, and this includes there backstories, of there family of origins!  One guy had a mother who had murdered his abusive father, and spent 15 years in prison for it; another one had his father deliver the classic line of "three wives past your mother".

It disturbed me to see the main and the minor characters act like this, but what disturbed me even greater than that was - it normalized behavior that shouldn't be normalized, that shouldn't be accepted !   If beautiful, career-successful Renee #2 does all this for the guy who stutters to call her his girlfriend - then what about everyday plain Jane me?!  I guess then this is how it goes: it's nowhere like a romance novel, but rather a tragedy, that ignores soul ties, and wounds and hardens the souls of the participants.  If Renee #1 goes severely off the rails when she's jilted - into selling her body and at least one suicide attempt - then I'm just like everyone else, when I let what happen to me destroy me.

As I stated in the beginning, I've watched a great deal of Chicago PD - so I'm aware of Voight, and all the rumors and allegations and etc, that swirl around his head.  However, what I saw of him here - because apparently this is actually where he first came into the whole Chicago storyline, like a precursor to his own show - left me breathless with his bad cop antics.  And I was equally breathless when the inexcusable is excused AND the Lt. in the fire department that was nearly murdered by him, is supposed to just go along, make nice, all of that - I am grateful at least that there is a character that has a bit of a moral compass! to say 'no, this ain't right!'

This whole thing just ain't right.  Maybe Hollyweird is too far gone to pray them outta it, back into the quaint family shows like Lassie, the Waltons, All in the Family, et al, so perhaps I'll pray for the minds and souls of those watching this stuff -+  THAT THEY DON'T SHADOW-LIFE THE CHARACTERS STREAMING ON SCREENS + + +