The Atlantic: Liar, a six-part miniseries whose finale airs on SundanceTV on Wednesday, is constructed around the premise that two people are telling different stories about a sexual encounter and one of them is lying. Laura (Downton Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt) has no memory of what happened at the end of her date with Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd) and thinks she’s been raped. Andrew insists the sex was consensual, and that Laura’s furious public statements are ruining his reputation. Complicating matters further is that Andrew, a surgeon and single father, is a pillar of the community, while Laura is increasingly unstable, and—it emerges—has a history of making allegations against men that she later retracted.
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Until everyone can stop using rape as a plot point, I don't think rape should be in shows at all. I am extremely unimpressed by the amount that sexual violence is used as a plot point in shows and movies. This doesn't make sense to me at all. I don't think the subject of sexual violence is an uncommon enough of a thing for it to be interesting enough to put on a screen. Sexual violence is happening around us every day. The dramatic element is gone because all of us know someone who has been sexually abused, probably multiple people. Shows like Liar confuse me. I don't understand how alienation of an entire demographic that probably won't watch your show now because it makes them feel attacked is a good thing.
And on the note of using sexual violence to create a "strong female character". A person's strength is not measured by the amount of abuse they can handle. It should be measured on their moral character.
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