Man, @ReelzChannel #Autopsy is one of the cheesiest conspiracy series I've ever seen. I watched the one about #DavidBowie yesterday, and the grasping for "other causes" besides cancer contributing to Bowie's death reached truly ridiculous proportions. 1/
So was the part in #Autopsy speculating that Bowie had somehow "controlled" the time of his death so that Blackstar could be released before his death. 2/
I will say that I had never seen the shots from his appearance at the Lazarus premier five weeks before Bowie died. Contrary to what the show claims, from what I saw Bowie most definitely did NOT look healthy then. 3/
Even cheesier are the "recreations" with actors who don't even really look that much like Bowie. 4/
And then the ableism and nonsense about the family history of mental health issues in Bowie's family, with the implication that this might have contributed to his death? Geez. This stuff is worse than I had feared. 5/
As for all the nonsense about "confusing fantasy with reality," gee, you don't think that maybe, just maybe, Bowie's prodigious use of drugs in the 1970s had something to do about it? 6/
Bowie had been clean and sober for a long time before his death...so it must have been mental illness plus drugs from 40+ years ago? WTF? 7/
"In the long term, cocaine is addictive"? No shit, Sherlock. Bowie himself famously used to joke that he was so coked up at the 1975 Grammys that he didn't even really remember it. That's part of what led him to move to Germany in the late 1970s to get clean. 8/
And Bowie's heart attack in Germany in 2004 while on tour might have contributed? This is some serious reaching. Here's a thought. Here's a thought. Maybe Bowie developed liver cancer (as ultimately reported) and ended up dying of it, given how nasty a disease it is. 9/
Anyway, I realize that ranting about stupid shows like #Autopsy on @ReelzChannel is a bit pointless. I just regret having let my fannishness about Bowie plus the sixth anniversary of his death/75th birthday suck me into watching this dreck. 10/10
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