And yet somehow, The Last Man on Earth isn't the most morbid, anxiety-inducing comedy on network television.
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"You're looking for the most morbid things in the most beautiful place possible," she said, describing the scenery of Maui.
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In "Figuring Flesh" — the most morbid, chaotic section — the body is physically violated in various ways, by war, religion, abstraction or explorations of gender.
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Every car ride, conversation, and argument the father of three had was weighed down by the possibility it could lead to television's most morbid, ever-looming twist.
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With so much true crime on TV these days, I'm all about a show that takes a step back and sees the absurdity in even the most morbid of situations.
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Finally, it's nice to hear, at least, that out of the five main endings to Bandersnatch, the most morbid one—where Stefan gets on the train with his mom—was the least popular.
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No man's land, a kind of field of corpses, represents a new sort of haunted house, an embodiment of the most morbid aspects of horror film and what I'd even call horror as a worldview—a way of thinking about the war.
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162-163 Mme Necker, who had always seen herself as ill, sank into mental illness. Since the birth of Germaine she was correcting the most morbid clauses of her will and insisted to be embalmed by Samuel-Auguste Tissot, preserved and exhibited in a bedroom for four months. Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution by Antoine de Baecque He continued to live under the care of his daughter. By 1794 France would be flooded by false assignats.
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"The last section, 'Warnings', is weak and the author in general seems to be not very strong on positivity," he wrote. Some contemporaries (Nikolai Pisarev, Alexei Suvorin) dismissed Saltykov-Shchedrin as the one taken to 'laughing for laughter's sake'. Vladimir Korolenko disagreed; he regarded Shchedrin's laughter to be the essential part of Russian life. "Shchedrin, he's still laughing, people were saying, by way of reproach... Thankfully, yes, no matter how hard it was for him to do this, in the most morbid times of our recent history this laughter was heard… One had to have a great moral power to make others laugh, while suffering deeply (as he did) from all the grieves of those times," he argued.
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The main body of the work centres on Bella Baxter, a woman whose early life and identity are the subject of some ambiguity. That ambiguity is complicated by her husband Archibald McCandless's autobiography, "Episodes from the Early Life of a Scottish Public Health Officer," which distorts the truth about his life with Bella. This is followed by Bella's (or Victoria's) refutation of its facts, suggesting that her "poor fool" of a husband has concocted a life for her from the prevailing gothic and romantic motifs of the period: it "positively stinks of all that was morbid in that most morbid of centuries". This is reinforced by the novel's intricate echoes of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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