ABC's Wonderland

Posted by Abby on April 7, 2000, at 21:09:08

Did anybody watch the first two episodes of this show. It's set at a forensic psychiatric hospital in New York.
NAMI has a full scale campaign against it on stigma grounds. They got ABC to add a public service message about how mental illness could be effectively treated and that their was hope. ABC also removed a graphic suicide attempt, which was probably a goo idea.
I don't know what I think about this show which I did watch, largely because of the curiosity factor. (ABC 10PM Thursdays) I'm not sure whether the show is good or bad. NAMI's approach seemed shrill somehow, but I'm not sure about that.
NAMI's argument seemed to be that, because the show includes psychotic people, it was increasing stigma by emphasizing extreme cases. It seemed to me to offer some kind of hope, because it was clear that the schizophrenic man responded to drugs. So, I don't know.
Abby

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