As for TMA, all I can say is that I've found the level of horror . . . mostly tolerable. But my feelings about horror in general are kind of odd--I read a certain amount of short horror fiction (basically, Ellen Datlow's annual and themed anthologies) but I don't watch horror movies and I don't generally read horror novels, because in longer form I get invested in the characters and want them to be okay. Which is starting to be a bit of a problem for me with TMA, because I've become extremely protective of and worried about the characters I like, although the showrunners have outright said that nobody is going to be okay. But I'm hooked at this point.
TMA's horror is very different from the horror of Hannibal (the only horror-ish fandom I can think of that we both know). It's not aestheticized, and there's not even the slight moral justification of Hannibal mostly choosing to eat the rude. Bad things happen to good people in TMA, and they're not turned into art afterwards. But the show's well-written and well-performed, and I think Jonathan in particular would be your type of character.
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Date: 2020-01-02 05:54 am (UTC)As for TMA, all I can say is that I've found the level of horror . . . mostly tolerable. But my feelings about horror in general are kind of odd--I read a certain amount of short horror fiction (basically, Ellen Datlow's annual and themed anthologies) but I don't watch horror movies and I don't generally read horror novels, because in longer form I get invested in the characters and want them to be okay. Which is starting to be a bit of a problem for me with TMA, because I've become extremely protective of and worried about the characters I like, although the showrunners have outright said that nobody is going to be okay. But I'm hooked at this point.
TMA's horror is very different from the horror of Hannibal (the only horror-ish fandom I can think of that we both know). It's not aestheticized, and there's not even the slight moral justification of Hannibal mostly choosing to eat the rude. Bad things happen to good people in TMA, and they're not turned into art afterwards. But the show's well-written and well-performed, and I think Jonathan in particular would be your type of character.