Horrifying TV.

Michael Fumento , a former paratrooper who was embedded with the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq, has his opinion of the new FX series "Over There." at Tech Central.

I have watched "Over There" and I didn't like the way they portrayed soldiers, but I didn't have the experience to know what other things they were getting wrong. Fumento does. Boots On The Ground gives his take on it as well.

Several years ago I stopped going to R rated movies. It just seemed I was always offended by them and had images in my brain I didn't want there afterward. Some things I just felt were wrong to watch. Since watching "Over There" I have caught a few more of the FX channel's series. I watched "Nip and Tuck" and "Starving."

"Nip and Tuck" follows 2 plastic surgeons around. One had obviously had a relationship with a porn star and at the end of the show they show her "performing." I thought it was extremely graphic. Yeah. These are the images I was trying to avoid getting into my brain from not watching R rated movies. "Starving." which follows around a bunch of bulmics whose problems go far beyond them being bulimic. It also had a graphic sex scene that totally dehumanized the woman. It also shows these people throwing up every 10 minutes. Totally disgusting. Who watches this crap? It horrifies me that my kids could happen to flip to this channel. We have the V chip on all our TV's and we have the channels we might not want them watching not programmed in. But since these shows are on basic cable, they could see them in anyone else's home. Has there been any controversy over these shows? Just the episodes I watched made me sick.

I'm starting to think they should call it the FXXX channel. "Over There" may be bad, but the other FX shows are even worse.