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Trauma meme5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Such roles have become more common as the industry has reckoned with the toll that depicting traumatic experiences can take on cast and crew for instance, director Barry Jenkins hired a counselor for his Prime Video series set in the antebellum South, “The Underground Railroad.” Netflix declined to comment on Alsup’s claims about the on-set work environment or number of Black crew members. In the main, though, she found the experience “exhausting” and the set - which she alleges had no mental health coordinators available - an unsupportive environment. ![]() The episode establishes the backstory of deaf victim Tony Hughes by detailing his close relationship with his mother. “I was always being called someone else’s name, the only other Black girl who looked nothing like me, and I learned the names for 300 background extras.”Īlsup did eventually see her experience improve during production on Episode 6, “Silenced,” written by a Black woman (Janet Mock) and directed by a Black man (TV veteran Paris Barclay). “It was one of the worst shows that I’ve ever worked on” as a Black woman, Alsup added, reiterating the claim that she was one of only two Black crew members below the line on “Dahmer” - and that she was regularly mistaken for the other. The trailer itself gave me PTSD, which is why I ended up writing that tweet and I didn’t think that anybody was going to read.” I don’t want to have these PTSD types of situations. It’s also come from those who worked on “Dahmer.” Production assistant Kim Alsup, who tweeted that she was “treated horribly” on set, tells The Times that she hasn’t watched the series yet because of that experience: “I just feel like it’s going to bring back too many memories of working on it. The criticism has not only come from those who see themselves or their family members in the series, though. But no victims’ families were consulted in the process. Season 2 of Netflix’s “Mindhunter” re-examines the killings of two dozen black youths in Atlanta from 1979 to 1981. Television With Atlanta child murders, ‘Mindhunter’ delves into its thorniest case yet Netflix declined to comment on Perry’s criticism or the involvement of victims’ families or victim advocates in “Dahmer.” (The families of victims in the Atlanta child murders, the subject of Netflix’s “Mindhunter” Season 2, were not contacted, The Times reported in 2019.) And most importantly, if you’re going to create something that uses real-world people and experiences, you should at minimum contact those people out of respect.” “We’re all one traumatic event away from the worst day of your life being reduced to your neighbor’s favorite binge show. “I think social media and Netflix, combined with a big-name producer and actors, really amplified more than I’ve ever noticed it before. Netflix dropped ‘Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ this week and received criticism from one of the victim’s loved ones, among others. Television Netflix dropped a new Jeffrey Dahmer show, and a victim’s family says ‘it’s cruel’ ![]()
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