Anti-steroid propaganda on television is seemingly effective in shaping viewers opinions on anabolic steroids. The NBC television series “Life” featured an imaginative and fanciful portrayal of roid rage on the most recent episode “Everything… All the Time.” While most readers of this blog laugh at the ridiculous, uniformed and fictitious depiction of roid rage in primetime television, ignorant consumers of popular culture consume such anti-steroid propaganda as the factual basis for their beliefs about steroids. This has the effect of demonizing steroids and particularly the steroid user.

The pathetic and absurd portrayal of roid rage makes us wonder how much research the producers invest in the subject matter portrayed in their television series. Yet, many viewers of this show see nothing other than “brilliant” television drama. This is why such insidious anti-steroid propaganda is dangerous.

After watching this particular episode of ‘Life,’ Cameron Cubbison falls in love with the “show’s brilliant brilliant brilliant writing” about “steroid monsters” and “steroid freaks.”

This show is as good as anything that has ever been on the air, and if you’re not watching it, you’re committing a crime and should be locked up. You’re harming humanity, you’re being evil. To paraphrase Edmund Burke, the only thing necessary for evil to prevail is if good people do nothing. So watch the show and don’t let NBC kill it. Please. 

Factual information about steroids is replaced with pure fabrication. A death resulting from a steroid overdose (i.e. ’steroid hot shot’) is laughable only to be surpassed in its implausibility by the addition of “bleeding eyes” to an unbelievably retarded ‘roid rage’ scene. But no one seems to notice.

Eric Cole’s review is a little more critical of this episode of ‘Life’ but seems to accept the roid rage of a “steroid-crazed mammoth” without question.

Erin Dougherty’s review talks about how steroids created a monster.

Luckily, two of the gang guys were talking about a guy who they heard ate glass and drank blood, a monster in short… They tell the cops they don’t know anything about it and the only thing they have on them is steroids. But what would make a guys look more like a giant monster than steroids? Exactly.

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And who should follow him but a giant kid with anger issues named Marty…

…Marty is going crazy and busting up her office. Crews and Reese get there just in time to see him completely destroying everything. Oh yeah, Marty also has blood coming out of his eyes, which is probably not too normal. He rushes Crews and tries to get his gun so he can kill himself but Crews is able to overpower him. But he’s a monster, right? Turns out the only thing stronger than a monster is steroids with intensity 20 times the normal amount.

No one is calling bullshit of the roid rage scene except for a limited number of people in the steroid and/or bodybuilding community.