Blood is in the water...
Just like how westerns and World War 2 fiction petered out over time. And that's exactly what they were, pure fiction for the most part that completely distorted in the public mind what really happened in those days. These kinds of TV and films centered around the police are exactly the same in the way they create dumb myths among the population anyway so it's probably time for that genre to finally go extinct as well. Only wish it had happened back when the bastards had three or four of those goddamn awful CSI shows on the air at the same time.
Not a big supporter of the cops shows. They had their place. I miss America's most wanted and the Sheriff with the world whitest teeth (can't remember the name of the show just now). That said there is a podcasts that exposes a great deal of the rot that is the show cops Running from COPS
I know that when it 1st came out it was well intention show but what it turned into was a rabid dog that needed to be put down. Long overdue. That said the pendulum has shifted, how far remains to be seen but I can't see any cop movies being green lit for a while.
I watch the "First 48" and from time to time "Live PD"
The only cop show I watch is The Wire (I’m on season four of five). The rest of them I just find to be played out and repetitive. If there’s a few years where there aren’t cop shows on tv, it can only be for the best.
as someone who has watched years of ncis, csi, l&o, criminal minds, bones, forensic files, various wife vs. husband murder shows, some new cringe shit called "swat", and every fucking buddy cop movie ever... please end this, PLEASE END THIS
MAKE DIFFERENT SHOWS PLEASE
firefighters or emts or fucking isp technicians i don't care but please, please no more cop worship
watched an episode of swat yesterday where some white anarchist chick poisons a salad bar for isis. it's sooo fucking cheesy. not to mention the scene where they need to arrest some guy at an anti-capitalist riot with like 10 people running around like apes, nondescriptly yelling totally irrational evil nonsense at the poor cops as they shoot canisters of cuddly air
y'all can whine about commies wanting to cancel shit but please just let the cop shows die, there are enough of them, there is no scarcity
haven't watched cops since i was a teenager but that show was WAY past its prime, it was disgusting. it was curated by the cops and it still made them look like total psychos
i have been told that the wire is indeed "good"
i like the historical stuff, like forensic files, or the fbi files, or other such "real crime" shows. hell, even unsolved mysteries is pretty cool, once you tune out the angels and aliens shit
anything is better than SWAT
Maybe SWAT will one day show, in it's last episode maybe, the troops heroically kicking down a door during a marijuana bust and tossing a flashbang grenade into a baby's crib, just like happens in real life. Nah, not in the cast's contracts to get anywhere near reality.
Why not the exciting daily lives of Librarians?
We can't handle that kind of television.
Next thing you know, kids would be learning the Dewey Decimal system, then where would we be?