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Matthew Gilbert, a former television critic for the Globe, writes the Globe column Entertainment RX. It almost happened. The Trump administration almost aired a firing-squad execution live on TV. Sure, “almost” isn’t “totally,” but it’s close enough, and totally too close for comfort. Ultimately, sharper minds prevailed, Trump was pushed to nix Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s latest plan to exalt barbarism, and the Very Special Episode of Violence was canceled before its Dec. 3 airdate. But the realistic possibility that our government would livestream a killing into your home is its own kind of danger. It’s yet another signal that the country is moving closer to a primitive, snuff-film ethos and away from civilized and humane thinking. When you see people being publicly hung at Harvard in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” or in the Wild West of “Deadwood,” it should be a chilling image, a cautionary tale about the bad old days, not the shape of things to come. It should be the stuff of cruel TV dystopias, or the dark fantasy “Game of Thrones,” not something your child would easily be able to tune into on a Thursday afternoon.
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