1 hr 19 min
Mare of Easttown -- Is HBO Moving Away from Drug HYSTERIA? LPP Podcast
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- Self-Improvement
HBO has become the ultimate destination of Harm Reduction in streaming media with its shows Mare of Easttown and Hacks. In both, the show’s protagonists (again played by women) drink (Mare) and consume drugs (Hacks) without being driven to perdition. Moreover, the creators of each series seem to be actively pursuing a harm reduction vision — meaning not blaming drugs and alcohol for people’s life problems.
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TIME STAMPS:
0:00 - Introduction + TV drug narratives in history
16:40 - Reflections on Mare of Easttown and Harm Reduction
40:12 - Discussion about HBO's "Hacks"
57:31 - Santon's Memoir!
SHOW SUMMARY
Stanton and Zach discuss the importance of narratives in determining views of drugs and alcohol. Indeed, these narratives are the critical determinants of drug reactions, individually and culturally. Thus, how American media has shown drug and alcohol use has been crucial to the American drug, addiction and alcoholism experience.
Stanton provides a brief history of American views on alcohol and drugs, as seen through the 20-year skein of the TV series Gunsmoke. Alcohol was drunk casually and socially by the show’s stars, while excessive, drunken and alcoholic drinking were controlled within the community.
American television shifted to the recovery vision of the dangers of alcoholism and as requiring complete abstinence in the 1980s (following Betty Ford) with the appearance of the hit series, Murphy Brown. In many ways, the recovery vision of drinking has continued until the present in mass media.
Drug use has never been a comfortable part of American television, leading to shows referencing marijuana — such as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and Tales of the City — to be quickly cancelled.
The emergence of streaming programming has opened mass media to a different view of substance use and problems, which can de termed harm reduction. In Jessica Jones, Good Behavior, and In the Dark, female lead characters drank and got drunk while still being constructive people.
And most recently, the shows Mare of Easttown and Hacks have provided a realistic portrayal of people and their problems-- making HBO something like a harm-reduction-promoting organization.
(Hacks actually takes on traditional shows’ treatment of drug use. When one character is hospitalized after a drug binge, she turns out not to have been laid low by drugs, leading to a life-saving operation for the drug- using character. This situation is essential for presenting harm reduction views and counseling, as well as for planning and running harm reduction education programs.)
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HBO has become the ultimate destination of Harm Reduction in streaming media with its shows Mare of Easttown and Hacks. In both, the show’s protagonists (again played by women) drink (Mare) and consume drugs (Hacks) without being driven to perdition. Moreover, the creators of each series seem to be actively pursuing a harm reduction vision — meaning not blaming drugs and alcohol for people’s life problems.
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- Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360
TIME STAMPS:
0:00 - Introduction + TV drug narratives in history
16:40 - Reflections on Mare of Easttown and Harm Reduction
40:12 - Discussion about HBO's "Hacks"
57:31 - Santon's Memoir!
SHOW SUMMARY
Stanton and Zach discuss the importance of narratives in determining views of drugs and alcohol. Indeed, these narratives are the critical determinants of drug reactions, individually and culturally. Thus, how American media has shown drug and alcohol use has been crucial to the American drug, addiction and alcoholism experience.
Stanton provides a brief history of American views on alcohol and drugs, as seen through the 20-year skein of the TV series Gunsmoke. Alcohol was drunk casually and socially by the show’s stars, while excessive, drunken and alcoholic drinking were controlled within the community.
American television shifted to the recovery vision of the dangers of alcoholism and as requiring complete abstinence in the 1980s (following Betty Ford) with the appearance of the hit series, Murphy Brown. In many ways, the recovery vision of drinking has continued until the present in mass media.
Drug use has never been a comfortable part of American television, leading to shows referencing marijuana — such as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and Tales of the City — to be quickly cancelled.
The emergence of streaming programming has opened mass media to a different view of substance use and problems, which can de termed harm reduction. In Jessica Jones, Good Behavior, and In the Dark, female lead characters drank and got drunk while still being constructive people.
And most recently, the shows Mare of Easttown and Hacks have provided a realistic portrayal of people and their problems-- making HBO something like a harm-reduction-promoting organization.
(Hacks actually takes on traditional shows’ treatment of drug use. When one character is hospitalized after a drug binge, she turns out not to have been laid low by drugs, leading to a life-saving operation for the drug- using character. This situation is essential for presenting harm reduction views and counseling, as well as for planning and running harm reduction education programs.)
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1 hr 19 min