I, too, didn't have cable, so I haven't really been into the Nickelodeon documentary. Thank you for writing a summary, though; I'm glad I've been informed. I've been interested in reading I'm Glad My Mom Died, but it seems...stressful.
Growing up, my mom was obsessed with watching TV shows that were true crime before true crime was a genre: Cops, 48 Hours, things like that. (It always seemed like there was one for every night of the week, even on public access channels.) It was very often the last thing I'd watch before going to bed: stories about rape, murder, dismemberment, all packaged by some lurid narrator with bad reenactments. I'm not entirely sure why millennial women seem so obsessed with true crime - I'm sure there's tons of speculation out there - but with my mom, I felt like it was a confirmation of a bias that the world was dangerous, and it was better to just stay home and self-isolate. Either way, I'm glad that she doesn't know that true crime exists as a genre and also doesn't know how podcasts work. May this continue indefinitely.
I'm Glad My Mom Died is a stressful read, but a lot of it is about regular adolescence/life. Also, Jennette going to therapy and figuring out how to move forward.
Oh, there's definitely writing about true crime and cultural anxieties and gender/whiteness. I grew up in a Law and Order household, which is copaganda/procedural that often veers into true crime by pulling cases from the news. Also I'm from NE Wisconsin and the 2005 Teresa Halbach murder was like, *the* local news story during my middle school years. When Making a Murderer came out in 2014, it was wild because all my east coast friends were talking about these really obscure small towns where I grew up, and projecting conspiracies onto this murder that I had always assumed was pretty clear-cut. So yes, something about how most women are killed by their husbands/partners and true crime is maybe comforting because the stories are so convoluted and freaky?
so many thoughts as i generally avoid most true crime but my particular niche of interest is scams and cults. i didn't watch quiet on set after hearing the reviews and that so many affected weren't involved - pretty sure that production company also did a doc on "the glee curse" about three main actors dying which felt really exploitative. i also have zero nostalgia for nickelodeon as a cable-less child, but jennette's memoir is SO good and certainly one of the best i've read celeb or otherwise. i do consider jessica simpson's memoir to be very high caliber and a similar reflection on the abuse related to her stardom and the alcoholism that came from that.
for anyone unsatisfied with quiet on set, i would really recommend the hbo doc showbiz kids - to me it gave a full picture of the abuse and labor exploitation of child acting without being re-traumatizing, with interviews with people like mara wilson and evan rachel wood and also going back through the history of child actors.
True crime is a big category. I'm thinking about The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson and We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian--really different books that take murder and put it in a larger context. I guess I want my true crime to feel thoughtful or useful in someway, but after the first 30 seconds of the Mother God doc, I was like, "Well there's no way I'm NOT not watching this."
I, too, didn't have cable, so I haven't really been into the Nickelodeon documentary. Thank you for writing a summary, though; I'm glad I've been informed. I've been interested in reading I'm Glad My Mom Died, but it seems...stressful.
Growing up, my mom was obsessed with watching TV shows that were true crime before true crime was a genre: Cops, 48 Hours, things like that. (It always seemed like there was one for every night of the week, even on public access channels.) It was very often the last thing I'd watch before going to bed: stories about rape, murder, dismemberment, all packaged by some lurid narrator with bad reenactments. I'm not entirely sure why millennial women seem so obsessed with true crime - I'm sure there's tons of speculation out there - but with my mom, I felt like it was a confirmation of a bias that the world was dangerous, and it was better to just stay home and self-isolate. Either way, I'm glad that she doesn't know that true crime exists as a genre and also doesn't know how podcasts work. May this continue indefinitely.
I'm Glad My Mom Died is a stressful read, but a lot of it is about regular adolescence/life. Also, Jennette going to therapy and figuring out how to move forward.
Oh, there's definitely writing about true crime and cultural anxieties and gender/whiteness. I grew up in a Law and Order household, which is copaganda/procedural that often veers into true crime by pulling cases from the news. Also I'm from NE Wisconsin and the 2005 Teresa Halbach murder was like, *the* local news story during my middle school years. When Making a Murderer came out in 2014, it was wild because all my east coast friends were talking about these really obscure small towns where I grew up, and projecting conspiracies onto this murder that I had always assumed was pretty clear-cut. So yes, something about how most women are killed by their husbands/partners and true crime is maybe comforting because the stories are so convoluted and freaky?
so many thoughts as i generally avoid most true crime but my particular niche of interest is scams and cults. i didn't watch quiet on set after hearing the reviews and that so many affected weren't involved - pretty sure that production company also did a doc on "the glee curse" about three main actors dying which felt really exploitative. i also have zero nostalgia for nickelodeon as a cable-less child, but jennette's memoir is SO good and certainly one of the best i've read celeb or otherwise. i do consider jessica simpson's memoir to be very high caliber and a similar reflection on the abuse related to her stardom and the alcoholism that came from that.
for anyone unsatisfied with quiet on set, i would really recommend the hbo doc showbiz kids - to me it gave a full picture of the abuse and labor exploitation of child acting without being re-traumatizing, with interviews with people like mara wilson and evan rachel wood and also going back through the history of child actors.
True crime is a big category. I'm thinking about The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson and We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian--really different books that take murder and put it in a larger context. I guess I want my true crime to feel thoughtful or useful in someway, but after the first 30 seconds of the Mother God doc, I was like, "Well there's no way I'm NOT not watching this."
I will definitely checkout showbiz kids :)