Item: "'Monsters Inside Me,' which begins a six-week run on Wednesday night, tells real stories of parasitic infection and detection in a ticking-clock style equally influenced by true-crime shows and 'House.' With its shadowy re-creations of agonizing illness and horror-movie animations of worms invading every part of the human body (including the brain), it reinforces a trend on Animal Planet and its sister channel, Discovery: the depiction of the natural world in terms of violence, th ...

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