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Movies and TV Shows Safe for Rebooting (Netflix in confidence)

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by sparkywantsnoPMO, Sep 27, 2018.

  1. sparkywantsnoPMO

    sparkywantsnoPMO NoFap Moderator & Yeoman

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    Thanks to the pornification of the culture, it is difficult to watch shows without triggers. Let's discuss films and series that are safe to watch. Please list the show, attach an IMDB link if desired, and give a synopsis. If 99% of the series is good, and there's a short scene or two, please give a spoiler free warning.

    It's also worth noting series that are an absolute problem and should be avoided.

    Series: Merlin
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1199099/
    Genre: Fantasy; Middle Ages
    Safe? YES

    This series lasted five seasons (series in UK), and focused around the early days of Arthur and Merlin, before he became the king. It's a great reboot series because every episode revolves around plot resolution, not the relationship desires of the cast, unlike series like the Flash. There are plenty of shows out there that sort of have a plot, but every scene their talking about relationships (Dark Matter is another one I'm thinking of). The most severe scenes I've seen is a simple kiss, and those are few and far between. The CGI is a little rough, but it's mid 2000s on a BBC budget, so what you going to do? Some have equated this series to Smallville in the age time frame. The actors also look like real people, and not models. Oh, there are occasionally five second scenes of Prince Arthur topless, for those with such concerns. Oh yeah, and there's some good cast choices, like Anthony Stewart Head as Uther Pendragon, and John Hurt as a dragon.

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    Series: Altered Carbon
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261227/
    Genre: Futuristic Distopian Sci-Fi
    Safe? NO

    This Netflix sponsored series features a future where all peoples' consciousnesses are loaded onto removable hard drives at age one. If your body (they're called "sleeves") fails, just load into another. If your hard drive is damaged, you suffer "real death." There's some interesting philosophy and social issues here. Catholic Christianity survives and is against this process, and that's explored. The consciousnesses (I think they call them stacks) suffer "sleeve sickness" every time a switch happens, which explores the philosophy of whether we are only our consciousness (I'm going to use the word soul here because it's significantly fewer characters) or whether we are body/soul composites and the soul is meant to be in a certain body. Sleeves are also expensive, limiting the number available. The super rich can buy clones of themselves, limiting sickness, and granting virtual immortality. We get to see the moral costs of such privileges. There are some interesting characters, such as a few of these immortals, an assassin turned detective, and an AI who's a hotel and based himself on Edgar Allen Poe.

    Unfortunately, this series is riddled with "TV porn." I'm not going to describe it, but virtually every episode has at least one triggering scene. This is absolutely not safe for rebooting.
     
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  2. snighder

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    Is watching hot scenes(just few seconds) in TV shows considered as relapse? I am able to control myself to M and also not getting much horny, but still wondering....
     
  3. sparkywantsnoPMO

    sparkywantsnoPMO NoFap Moderator & Yeoman

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    This is not the purpose of this thread. Out of courtesy, I will send you an inbox reply.
     
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