News It's Powerful To See Kimmy Schmidt Grapple With Ptsd???

[cat-lady]

Well, after posting here a while ago that watching Kimmy Schmidt just made me angry I had an urge to watch the second season after all and give it another try. I really liked the second season and didn't have that experience with it. Then, tonight I watched the final episode of the second season and towards the end out of no where had a huge crying fit. Ok now but need to go watch something non-triggering to recover. Weird - I never quite know what to expect when I watch stuff like this but sometimes I still want to. I guess it's just part of how we process this stuff for some of us.

 

[desiderata310]

I had the same reaction.

 

[Higgins]

Well, I love Kimmy Schmidt. I love seeing a girly show with a bunch of girls deal with heavy shit without showing any of it. I love how completely feminist KS is. I would much rather watch Kimmy try to get her life back and hit people for operating velcro than ruminate in rape with L&O SVU (woman as victim x 114) or 13 Reasons (let's show graphic rape scenes TWICE!).

I will though confess to be simultaneously really aggravated with how much TV is about showing rape and sexual assault. Even PBS (screw you PBS) shows sexual assault scenes in their programs. Grrr... For me Kimmy isn't glorifying rape by showing it over and over and over again like so many other shows are. Kimmy is about her trying to move on and how hard that is.