Think of the grief of the parents of the victims. Think of the way those kids who lived through that experience will have to deal with that for the rest of their lives. Television sanitizes reality, and that's very dangerous. Henriksen says that in the three years Millennium has been on the air, he has fought to keep the show honest. People say Millennium is so dark that it scares them.
Death is sterilized, made antiseptic.
Director Thomas J. Wright, who worked on Max Headroom before turning to Millennium , says good television forces viewers to listen to the words as well as watch the pictures. It's not television's fault. It's not the movies' fault. It's a lot of things. I know that it's only a matter of time before television is blamed, and we'll be lumped in with everybody else.