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Criminal Minds: Riding the Lightning (2006)
One hour of my life I'm not getting back!
This episode is so politically correct it's simply silly. I ended up walking away from this episode feeling like my intelligence was just insulted. Here's the premise....A woman wants to go to the electric chair for a crime she did not commit so that her son, who was adopted 15 years previous and doesn't know her from Adam anyway, won't find out who his parents, especially his father, are. Not only that, but throughout it all, even while going to her death, the woman never fails to wear a crap eating grin.... like she's up Joan of Arc ready for sainthood. Did it ever occur to the woman that she could live *and* protect her son from the awful truth about her son's father? The kid was put up for adoption about events of this episode anyway.... Did it ever occur to the writers that the kid would eventually figure out that he was adopted and then might find out that dear old dad was a sex crazed predatory loon? I didn't think so....but of course, I did something that the writers of this piece of crap didn't... I actually put some thought into it for about 10 seconds. After watching this piece of tripe, I wish I had opted to watch Larry The Cable Guy hosting a flatulence contest on the History Channel.
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Many of the actors were persecuted by the Nazis
Most people don't realize that many of the actors who appeared on HH were persecuted by the Nazis in real life. I think that should help to counter the argument that the show trivialized the sufferings of many under the Nazis. Otherwise, why would John Banner, Werner Von Klemperer, Robert Clary, and Leon Askin (General Burkhalter) consent to do the show? I think they took the parts as a sort of revenge against the Nazis who oppressed them. John Banner and Robert Clary were actually inmates in concentration camps. Werner Von Klemperer had to flee Nazi persecution (because his father, the famous conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Otto, was Jewish). Leon Askin's family were murdered in the Treblinka Death Camp.