Grave of the Fireflies, a Ghibli film. Stopped it a couple times. Ended up finishing it eventually, wish I never had.
This exists and is one of my favorite / most horrible shelf decorations
Recently, For All Mankind, Season 1, the episode where the kid gets hit by a car and is in the hospital with a brain bleed. My son was in the hospital with a brain bleed right after his birthday and spent months in the hospital recovering. This episode hit real close to home.
I had to take a break half way through the episode and didn’t finish it until 2 weeks later.
This, indeed, strikes too close to home. Hope he’s alright now. Can’t even imagine what I could do in the same situation, and being reminded of it with a casual media, gosh.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners. The world is simply too brutal for our protagonists.
Grave of the Fireflies. It just hurts to watch this movie.
Just around the time COVID hit I had started reading The Road. Man is it a bleak book, which isn’t something I normally have a problem with, but it hit way too close to home at a time when grocery store shelves were looking pretty picked-over and people were getting into fights over toilet paper.
I put it down and haven’t gotten around to picking it back up yet.
Possibly the worst part is that I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump for the last few years, and I was just really starting to work my way out of it and had read a few books but that kind of hit my reset button and I haven’t been able to really get restarted again.
I do intend to go back and restart it at some point though, I really enjoyed it, just really unfortunate timing.
