<p>I really enjoy crime/detective stories like CSI, NCIS, Bones, and especially the true stories on the cable channel Investigation Discovery. I liked Criminal Minds during its first few seasons but the last several times I’ve watched the show, it’s been too gruesome even for me. </p>
<p>Am I becoming more sensitive, or has it crossed the line?</p>
<p>Haha. I turned it off a after few minutes last night. The battery acid/eyes thing. Too creepysick for me.</p>
<p>Glad it was not just me last night.</p>
<p>I agree totally . CM is over the top ! One time was enough .</p>
<p>I have a thing about eyes anyway, and I had to squeeze my eyes closed and duck my head in the first five minutes. </p>
<p>The show is getting to be, IMHO, a good show for sadists and other sickos to watch.</p>
<p>Are the stories based on real cases, or are they just the result of some sick mind? I sometimes have to stop watching because of the horrific story lines. I certainly hope that they don’t inspire some sicko to copy the storyline.</p>
<p>I can’t watch CM any more. Too many plots revolve around gruesome things happening to children in particular. I will not have it on around my children.</p>
<p>I am not squeamish. My family watches NCIS together, we all love it. My default TV watching is usually things like Snapped, The Nightmare Next Door, anything on Crime and Investigation. I enjoy watching true crime because I find the scientific and psychological issues interesting. However, CM is just so above and beyond that I wouldn’t be surprised to find that copycat killers start using its plots.</p>
<p>I no longer watch it. Something sick about it.</p>
<p>Wow, Im glad its not just me. </p>
<p>Now that I have DVR I almost never watch a show during its scheduled on airtime I hate commercials. With CM I will NOT view the DVR recording in the evening. I wait until I have an hour during the day to watch it … just too creepy to view when its dark.</p>
<p>Listen to yourselves!</p>
<p>It makes me feel so much better about the world to know that so many people have such negative reactions to bad things being done to other people…even if it is just on a TV show!</p>
<p>D and I watch CM often. It’s often a lesson in developing and listening to your creep radar. We enjoy the psychological aspects of the profilers and the criminals, despite the graphic parts.</p>
<p>CM is my one and only “don’t miss” television show, but last night’s episode was extremely intense. I even texted my daughter, who watches it online after the fact, to warn her about how dark this episode was. I continue to watch it though, because the writing quality is superb, and the character development is so far beyond most shows.</p>
<p>I love the cast, but I maxed out on it sometime during the second season. I know several people who feel the same way - it’s just too creepy.</p>
<p>Hm, I never had a problem with the crime part of the show and still enjoy it. I just miss the personal side that most other crime shows have and CM doesn’t. Thats my only complaint: no love stories between the team, etc. The gruesome and disturbing parts are what makes it interesting. And no I’m not some sadist. TV violence is meaningless but real life violence is disturbing for me.</p>
<p>Last nights episode left me reaching for food in the kitchen…had to escape while husband continued to watch.</p>
<p>I think the reason it creeped me out so bad yesterday is that if that guy would have asked me or (worse) my daughter for help, we would have given it. I think it was a valuable lesson that danger can come from any source.</p>
<p>On another note the big topic of discussion here last night was that CM is either totally creepy or just a good crime story. I personally can do without the creep factor. The one a few season back about the murders in the slaughter barn and the other with the guy who hung the girls in the freezer on the ice hooks really pushed the envelope with me. (as did this one)</p>
<p>Agree. I used to really like CM but it just got too gory/gruesome for me.</p>
<p>Agree with most here, I watched the show 2 seasons and just couldn’t take anymore. I love all the others so it’s not the gore per se but the real life sick psychological aspects. A steady diet of this show can’t be good for even the healthiest mind. It makes me paranoid there are sociopaths lurking around every corner or in the houses next door to me. Reading about the real life stories when they occur in the news is enough for me.</p>
<p>I stopped watching the show altogether last year for exactly that reason. My wife still loves the show, though - she watches it when I’m not home. I find it both creepy and depressing to fixate repeatedly on truly twisted people doing horrific things, when I prefer to think such events are mercifully rare IRL. I didn’t even like the CSI story thread about the creepy guy who was stalking Laurence Fishburne. I also can’t stand “slasher” films for the same reason.</p>
<p>A few years back I had to read a real case report about the actions of a couple of serial torture/rapist/murderers and it still makes me upset to think about what their victims went through. I guess I don’t find fictional depictions of similar events to be entertaining.</p>