Dragon Tiger Gate (2006)

Acree Graham Macam, Incluvie Guest Columnist on how "murder shows" like 20/20's "Sole Survivor" and other true crime stories could just be the Millennial's solution for anxiety...even SNL agrees.

I can’t sleep. 

I’m 72 hours into the first nine-day residency of my MFA, and—after a weekend of 13-hour programming, making a dozen new friends, and agonizing about what they all think of the novel excerpt I sent them, I’m lying in bed, struggling to turn off my brain. I worry about all the dumb things I said today in workshop. I worry about how large and visible my pregnant belly is, and if people think it’s foolish of me to be here, starting a grad program, instead of at home, waiting for my baby to be born. I worry about my three-year-old and her dad, if she’s eating enough vegetables, and if the plane they’ll take in a few days to meet me is the Boeing 737 MAX that killed hundreds of passengers in crashes.

So, what does a Millennial do to ease her everyday anxieties?She watches a"murder show"...about serial killers.