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Honestly shout out to Brassic for being the only show I've seen that name checks meds like quetiapine and olanzapine and shows a main character taking antipsychotics without him being seen as a scary unhinged person. As a bipolar person who takes antipsychotics it's nice to see.

Not to harp on about this any more but my housemate loves shitty crime shows and keeps putting em on in our lounge room. Which is fine I can't blame her they can be pretty fun sometimes.

But a pattern I've noticed is at some point a ~scary mentally ill person~ will murder some people, and invariably someone will be like "they have a history of severe mental illness and they're on heavy antipsychotics :///" and it won't seem to do anything at all because they're scary mentally ill people ooga booga.

And of course antipsychotics won't cure everything but believe it or not they do actually help a lot of people. AND they're used for lots of different people and not just for psychosis.

Brassic is really good in that these meds come up a lot in conversation and it's well known Vinnie takes em. They're given actual names too, quetiapine and olanzapine. And the side effects are talked about and even joked about sometimes, the lack of sex drive, the wack ass dreams, etc etc. But it's never a moral failure that Vinnie takes them. They're just meds, the same as antidepressants are just meds.

And anyway it's really good to see that on TV. Antipsychotics aren't necessarily bad (sometimes the side effects can be shit house but that's something else). And yeah, they do work!