Originally posted by: TotallyPagalSai
They don't care and honestly neither should we give these shows so much importance to the extent that they influence our lives or thought process. They ARE normalizing abuse. They ARE normalizing domestic violence. They ARE normalizing toxic marital relationships. They are normalizing even gross incompetence at work 😂. If I let all this affect my value system and thought process, I'm the idiot. But no doubt it still affects us all at some level...We are human.
Even judging purely on entertainment value-It is not entertaining anymore. I can't watch it. I stopped after Virat was admitted to hospital. Because it just wasn't entertaining to watch V become Mahaan and Sai the scapegoat. It didn't gel with me. I couldn't watch It and I don't.
On the whole, Ghum is probably the most relentlessly negative show I've ever watched. Anu aunty has her toxic moments with loads of drama but then they space it out with some random happy moments too. This show doesn't do happy. They sell misery or maybe I should say Misery ultra pro max 😋. Well, I refuse to buy it. I watch TV to de-stress after work- not to feel miserable.
On the devar bhabi ick factor- it doesn't bother me that much. They never showed them as a normal devar and bhabhi. It was always something weird between them that the writers kept alive for obvious reasons. So yeah..not great, definitely not realistic, i don't care for it, but it's not worse than how the Chavans treat Sai and how that is considered totally acceptable on this show.
Two people in a consensual relationship, no matter how immoral >>>>> domestic abuse. So yeah...I'll take Pakhi and V together any day over Sai being abused her whole life but "in love" and with her abusive, emotionally manipulative husband.