Death Sentence! by J.A. Willoughby

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


What a crazy idea! Death Sentence is a TV show which is recorded live. The topic is rather gruesome: Executions – live as they happened! The production crew is transported back through time to the executions and they report the events to the audience at home.
I read this story half laughing, half crying. I totally got a kick out of the backstage view of a TV production doing anything at all to please the audience. And the audience is pleased by death, horror and violence. You doubt it? Well, switch on your TV and tell me I’m wrong. And that is the reason why I half cried – it is so plausible that if show people could make this happen, they would. This story spotlights the harsh and ugly truth about media, sales and advertisement.
But then there’s the season finale – the crucifixion of Christ.
I bow to the author for the courage to touch such a sensitive subject and to deal with it in such a sensitive manner. He cleverly includes the moral dilemma involved with anything to do with faith into the story while he walks the tightrope himself. Even if I do not agree with him in the end, the story is nevertheless brilliantly written.





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