I've had a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia for 20 years. When I spent time in hospital I knew others with the same diagnosis; and over the years I've met a few more. None of us are like the Ruffalo depiction, except that we're pretty much all overweight due to anti-psychotic medication.
I only made it halfway through the first episode, but looking at other negative reviews the problems I had with this continue throughout the series.
We have someone seemingly incapable of intelligent thought, brandishing a large knife, scaring librarians and children, a real dumb psycho. Yeah, thanks for this Ruffalo and co. The realistic anti-psychotic fatness, something Ruffalo obviously worked at, is totally undermined by the fact that if this guy were on medication then he wouldn't be trying to mutilate himself in a library while screaming incoherently. In fact he most probably wouldn't be doing anything of the sort off his meds either.
I have never met a schizophrenic like this. OK it's Hollywood fiction, but schizophrenia is totally under-represented in a media world full of depressives, bipolars, OCD people etc. A modicum of research would have been nice prior to creating this.. monster of a lead character.
I only made it halfway through the first episode, but looking at other negative reviews the problems I had with this continue throughout the series.
We have someone seemingly incapable of intelligent thought, brandishing a large knife, scaring librarians and children, a real dumb psycho. Yeah, thanks for this Ruffalo and co. The realistic anti-psychotic fatness, something Ruffalo obviously worked at, is totally undermined by the fact that if this guy were on medication then he wouldn't be trying to mutilate himself in a library while screaming incoherently. In fact he most probably wouldn't be doing anything of the sort off his meds either.
I have never met a schizophrenic like this. OK it's Hollywood fiction, but schizophrenia is totally under-represented in a media world full of depressives, bipolars, OCD people etc. A modicum of research would have been nice prior to creating this.. monster of a lead character.