Look. I like to watch the A&E reality show Intervention. I'm strongly interested in the causes and effects of trauma, addiction, and mental disease on people's personalities, and it's way easier to watch this digestible one-hour TV show than it is to, for instance, date a career drug user and alcoholic for a year. Or listen to half the people at bars. So I let myself have intervention with the understanding that other people's opinions on the show generally range from disinterest to repulsion. I get it. But seriously:
Season 8 Episode 1 is FUCKING GENIUS. Basically this chick is hooked on super strong painkillers and has convinced her family -and possibly herself- that she's so sick that she is sent into screaming fit levels of pain by everything from electricity to azaleas. And left turns.
I'm going to try to find the whole thing online, but it's definitely onDemand if you got it (my folks do). It really runs the gamut of fascinating human topics:
• painkiller addiction
• east vs. west culture clashes
• extraordinarily pathological passive aggressive manifestations of childhood anger
• ex-fucking-treme hysteria
• denial denial denial denial denial
• totally unjustified use of the word "weinerschnitzel"
• Mr. T
Jesus H. Christ on a fucking rubber crutch. It's unbelievable.
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