Too much swearing on shows!

[Yong Fang]

I am now watching the show "Ozark" with Jason Bateman. Not a bad series, and has good characters and good storylines. I am in about the middle of Season 2 and usually watch two or so episodes an evening.

I will say that this show and others, but to focus on this show, has just too much swearing. Especially the so called "f-word". Now, for me, I do swear, and I do swear if I am aggrevated or angry, I use the "f-word" a lot.

I do get on this show that all the people on it are under pressure, angry, and mostly low down folks, but every character just says the "f-word" all the time. "F this", "F something else", "That F'ing thing." The S word is also liberally used.

I wonder if writers of these shows put in all these F-words because they can, network shows are still not allowed to do so, but since they can, they do and just way overuse it. Like I said, it doesnt bother me, but some people do not want to hear it, or just have it be used all the time, by every character in every scene.

Writers, using the F and S words doesnt make you edgy. Not asking you to stop, but slow it down a bit. Just because you can doesnt mean you have to!

[TSMIV]

Have you seen Bloodline on Netflix? It's the same way. Every other word is the f bomb. Like you, I'm not above it; but the English language has a lot of words to pick from. I agree that they are doing it just because they can, not because it adds something to the story. It's not shocking anymore, but the constant use of it becomes annoying and comical.

[SarahBellum]

Network shows aren't much better. No f word yet, but lots of crude dialogue about genitalia and all kinds of sexual innuendo. That's not necessary.

[Sgt. Saunders]

Yes, the excessive use of profanity on “Ozark” even makes “The Sopranos” seem like “The Donna Reed Show” or “Family Affair” by comparison. (That coarse language on “Ozark” would make even Paulie Walnuts blush!)

I mean, remember what an almost earth-shattering event it was when young Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver issued one, single, solitary “expletive-deleted” after some nasty kid pushed “The Beaver” in the hallway of the Grant Avenue Elementary Grade School in Mayfield, USA?

I thought that Miss Landers, “Beaver’s” grade school teacher, was going to have a stroke when she heard “The Beaver” let loose with that apparent “F-Bomb”!

After all, this happened in 1962, when people never used such vile and crude words to express themselves as Americans do today.

Are you listening: Ruth and Cade Langmore? I hope you are.

[icecream]

Originally Posted by Sgt. Saunders

Yes, the excessive use of profanity on “Ozark” even makes “The Sopranos” seem like “The Donna Reed Show” or “Family Affair” by comparison.

[icecream]

I liked the edited season of Only Murders in the Building that aired on ABC. Worst part of it was all the bleeped language, no need to use that much profanity. While I would be interested in seeing more, only if they are edited seasons on ABC again. And Star Trek: Picard was ruined with a bunch of profanity. Parent show The Next Generation never resorted to that level of crudeness, or Deep Space Nine. I saw the complete series of Picard available, but not going to buy with all the swearing. I have been watching an edited version of Suits since it came to My Network TV, that show would also be better without all the profanity. White Collar from the same time period and station never had all that language. Improve your vocabulary writers and don't rely on two words that are way overused.

[Sgt. Saunders]

It would have been great to have seen an episode of LITB, where new transfer student Ruth Langmore became one of Miss Landers’s students at the Grant Avenue School.

I mean, Miss Landers was absolutely appalled and shocked when she heard the precocious Beaver Cleaver utter just one profanity (presumably, the time-honored American “expletive-deleted,” the “F-Bomb”), but imagine Miss Landers’s absolute angst when she got an earful of bottle Ruth Langmore issuing one “F-Bomb” after another “F-Bomb” (not to mention, countless other popular vulgarities) in class?

Next to Ruth Langmore, Judi Hensler and Penny Woods would look and sound like Mother Teresa and Kitty Forman, respectively!


No doubt, the Beaver, Larry Mondello, Richard Rickover and the sleazy and shifty Gilbert Gates would acquire a WHOLE new set “colorful” words from the outspoken Ruth to use in Miss Landers’s grammar class.