----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I think that CRACKER has to be judged as a piece of realist drama in which, unlike the films of Tarantino, the violence hurts. That is one explanation, at least, why it ofended some. In point of fact, the second series of CRACKER 'showed' a murder scene in which we saw neither the murder nor the body - but the response of those characters who did generated more anxiety in the face of violence than all the brains scattered over all the cars seats ....... >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >When I was in Britain in the fall,, CRACKER was shown as a weekly series >in the U.K. The program was quite popular, although there was some >serious criticism directed against what some thought to be gratuitous violence. > >-Henry Breitrose > Stanford > Robert Ferguson