Posted: Aug 26, 2020 9:07 am
by Animavore
I'm watching Piers Morgan's Psychopath, only because it's what my work colleague is watching, and I can only just marvel at its complete lack of insight into the mind of a psychopath. I mean the guy just gives calculating answers to questions which seem rehearsed and generally stonewalls. There's only a couple of flashes of anything true which are backed away from quickly.
I don't even think Morgan is the right guy for this type of show. He keeps trying to come at the psychopath at the level of a person who isn't (makes me think of the double empathy problem in autism), "How do you feel about this and that?" as if expecting him to breakdown and confess all. He's a psychopath and probably physically (as in the parts of brain associated with..) incapable of certain feelings or empathy or guilt that would elicit a reaction. At no point does he feel interested in any type of understanding.
His questions seem pre-prepared and he asks them one by one without pressing any issues on the fly or even recognising when something potentially worthy of further inspection has just arisen.