This Show Sucks

I don't understand why anyone would think it would take more time for a family member or attending physician to give a testimonial then having some generic dude talking about how it "could" have happened. If you're recreating events using strippers, ridiculous - unbelievable characters and clearly ironic dramatic devices - the event has to be given some level of credibility with the testimony of a witness. When I watch an episode where a prisoner is described as "despicable and hated by everyone" and the leaping lawyer is a serial sexual harrasser... I feel manipulated by a common dramatic device where I'm supposed to feel like the protagonist deserves his fate. There's a quick punny moral and on to the next unbelievable event.

My first reaction is that these events without any backup evidence, real names or witnesses - are dramatized urban legends or highly mythologized versions of real events. Either way they just look and feel like bad "Tales from the Crypt" episodes.... or should I say CREEPisodes! HEHEHEHEHEHEH

The stories seem to be based on actual events but there are clearly a good amount of embellishments. Note that nearly every story involved either an incredibly stupid person and/or an incredibly hot woman. It does air on Spike, after all. The poor fellow who was killed by the bees was in a rush because he wanted to make love to his smoking hot wife. The girl who was hit in the mouth with a fish was smoking hot. The girl who died of a nightmare was smoking hot. The woman the peeping tom was looking at was a smoking hot nympho. The lawyer who threw himself out a window was trying to impress some smoking hot interns. The woman who impaled herself with a sex toy was smoking hot. The woman who gave her boyfriend the alcohol enema was smoking hot. And so on and so forth. It does tend to stink of a lack of credibility. I agree with the OP, if this were handled with more respect to the original stories (most of them can be found by doing a simple google search) it would be a much more interesting series. By making every woman smoking hot and every hapless victim the stupidest person in the history of the world it tends to come across as insulting to the intelligence of the audience. Like we couldn't buy it that a peeping tom would be turned on by just an average or even unattractive woman who was just sitting in her room. We have to make it a super hot nympho who humps a fan in her underwear. And by making every victim dumber than a sack of rocks, we tend to miss the point that sometimes accidents happen simply because we aren't thinking clearly. Not everyone who has ever been killed by a woodchipper was borderline retarded.

"I'm at this place on Pico Boulevard called Tech-Noir."

The javelin one actually happened too.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4987455.html

"Remember they are ACTORS (NOT THE REAL PEOPLE)

They add a little comedy to the show to over shadow the sad reality of the Deaths.

GET IT NOW?"

Ohhh.....I thought it was actual footage of real people dying. Thanks for clearing that up. What would I do without you?

Anyway...the fact that they use sexy actresses doesn't bother me. The fact that they add their sexiness to every story is what bothers me. Even when it has absolutely nothing to do with the death (the wasp sting guy and the woman who died in her sleep are good examples) and is a clear fabrication meant to tittilate the young men watching the show. I think there is plenty of dark comedy in the show without the fabrications to make it enjoyable and by altering the stories to excite us young fellas they lose a great deal of credibility. In short, the show would be better if they just told the stories how they actually happened.

"I'm at this place on Pico Boulevard called Tech-Noir."