Death Channels – “BBC Three has now officially announced Way To Go, a black comedy series about three ordinary guys who find themselves forced by an extraordinary set of circumstances into setting up an assisted-suicide business.”
Death Channels – “BBC Three has now officially announced Way To Go, a black comedy series about three ordinary guys who find themselves forced by an extraordinary set of circumstances into setting up an assisted-suicide business.”
From the revelatory words of the writer of the show, I am sadly stunned to read that he is more thrilled to have his script picked up by the BBC for television than the delight of his wedding day with his wife and the joy of the birth of his son.
Where has the heart of the once proud nation of England gone? The Media Empire has so completely lost its moral rudder. That ship is headed for the rocks and they are encouraging the passengers to pull out their oars and start paddling to build up the speed.
Yet another reason why I continue to experience no loss after ditching the television set in 1997.
Is this a documentary on Obamacare?
Is this a documentary on Obamacare?
The USA already has “death panels”. Why not “death channels”.
Not even the amazingly–not to say eerily–prescient Anthony Burgess foresaw that one! God save us all.
Would it be so much to ask that Sitccom writers enter the assisted-suicide business as customers? I mean really has there been any Sitcom worth watching since Seinfeld and That ’70s Show?
When an idea is thought of as distasteful, perhaps offensive, one of the easiest ways of making it acceptable is to joke about it, find the humor in it and knock down the barriers.
Like, Little mosque on the prairie.
and, soon to find its way into the British National Health Service too.
A society that ofts its unborn inconveniences shouldn’t have a problem with finding humour in offing its elderly inconveniences.
The loss of potential braintrust is staggering.
While no advocate of socialized health care (or almost anything else), I would like to point out that all health care systems have a form of death panel. If it isn’t the state or other third party insurer, it’s the patient or the patient’s family. The death panel may opt for a painful and prolonged “natural” death, a DNR directive, or perhaps a few milligrams of “extra” morphine in the drip (very common to all systems), rationed care and waiting periods, or something more pro-active.
How many on this site have casually mentioned to their relatives something along the lines of, “please shoot me before I get to the same condition as old Aunt what’s her face”? Black humour and or reality-based underlying will?
I wonder how long until there is a situation-comedy about a family of transvestites that go into the government controlled fast-food business selling reprocessed human flesh? For social relevance they could inject some angst over whether to buy farmed or fresh human?
Doctor Kevorkian had a niche to fill, and so too this program, as this issue is continually in people’s faces. Just another form of entertainment, if it doesn’t involve us personally. When life gets too futile to carry on, we surmise some sort of “escort to the next escort”, to get us to that next station. It’s a dilemma which faces us all, and we’d all prefer it to be quick, as opposed to that lingering, lack of quality, hanging-on existence. We do not, however, wish to encroach that slippery slope of euthanasia, where the politicians could potentially have the power to determine when it’s “all over for you.” “Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?” Perhaps the Shiny Pony UnTrudeau can establish some sort of pinko visionary policy on that. He has to start somewhere, other than by alienating all voters who aren’t deaf.
I volunteer in the extended care unit of our local hospital and in seniors’ homes. I get to witness death on an all-too-regular basis and I fail to see the humour, even black humour, in the situation. I suspect this is “leading edge humour” to make something seem acceptable to the viewing public and eventually become mainstream acceptable, like homosexuality – sort of a Brokeback Funeral Home.
Aviator has it right, I think. Ideally one of the three guys will be gay and another will be black. Interestingly, we haven’t had a surfeit of black homosexuals on mainstream sitcoms, have we?
I won’t be watching that show. I’d rather kill myself.
Aviator has it right, as does LAS. Little Mosque on the Prairie, as marc mentions, was meant to condition us to the “human” moderate face of Islam.
One you finally accept that movies and television shows are primarily propaganda, things like this make perfect sense.
I was SAR in the Airforce,and like aviator,I now volunteer at the local Vet’s home.Death is no joke.Recently,a friend of my better half’s from school (45 yrs ago),had to put her WWII Dad in the home.Two weeks later,he was gone.My wife’s friend took it fairly well,but his wife of 75 years is still devastated,3 months later.It is no f*&king joke.Perhaps the families of these advocates should be the first to “volunteer”?
“…really has there been any Sitcom worth watching since Seinfeld and That ’70s Show?”
Posted by: LAS
No there hasn’t, nor for a considerable time before.
I won’t be watching that show. I’d rather kill myself.
Golf clap.
Arrested Development was brilliant. And they’re bringing it back!
Main reason I haven’t killed myself yet.
Apparently you all missed “Shameless” ….
Beyond tasteless and beyond gallows humour. We have made the killing business banal.
The templates and tropes for TV these days requires at least one gay character or gay subplot in order to remain on the air (watch any TV show now airing and tell me I’m wrong), as well as the token black guy (like Token on “South Park”), tough female character and guy who barely shaves. Lots of sex and cussing, too. IF a TV show DOES stand out because it is well-crafted, that’s what we call a miracle.