re: #201 Walter L. Newton

No I wouldn’t, since I saw too much of that sort of reality growing up in Brooklyn and then New Jersey. Had family members who worked for the mob, I didn’t like the people that hung around my relatives places, I didn’t like the shit that went on in the neighborhoods and I didn’t like the killing’s I saw on the street and in businesses.

If there were mysterious planes crashing on my street in Brooklyn and then the people on my plane getting into fights with the locals and then casuing my whole neighborhood to start skipping around in time, I would watch LOST either.

I have no desire to watch that sort of show.

Understood.
For what it’s worth, I loathe mafia and mafia related movies for some similar reasons. Including the ones people rave about like Goodfellas and the Godfather. The Sopranos I liked—and I didn’t expect to — because it doesn’t glamorise the mob the way virtually every other movie does. The schtick of the whole series involved this mob boss going to a therapist— one of the events in the last season is the therapist refusing to treat him any longer, because she belatedly comes to the realisation that he’s a sociopath.

The first season, the narrative arc I had in mind has to do with a revelation about exactly that: just as the viewer is lulled into liking this person, there are some spectacular reminders that this is a brutal man.
But given your own experiences, i certainly can’t blame you for not wanting to be near it — and it probably would piss you off.