Beyond his concerns about the prominence of extreme violence in Hollywood — which can be seen in major movies like the “John Wick” films or on the small screen in shows like “House of the Dragon” — William H. Macy proposed an incredibly realistic television series that would follow the victim of on-screen violence. “I wanna do a thing where, you take three episodes to have you fall in love with one of the major characters and then shoot him,” Macy suggested, saying he wanted to show the full aftermath of what happens when someone is shot on television. “But don’t write him off the show. And every week, you can see what a bullet does to a human body. You can see how it wrecks his marriage. You can see how he gets infections. You can see how he has to learn to walk again or use his hands again. You can see the deep, dark depressions.”

“Let’s tell the truth about it, because I swear to God, you kill one person, there’s nothing more dramatic than that,” Macy continued, somewhat reasonably. “You kill 18 people, it’s just porn. The only thing you can do to make that more dramatic is kill 18 more.” Honestly, he’s not wrong, but it doesn’t seem like Macy will get his wish any time soon. That does sound like a pretty intense pitch for some sort of miniseries, though.