Submitted by Any-Low9727 t3_yikiej in television
I'm exhausted by every single new show being about cops, doctors, or firefighters.
Every doctor show is unrealistic with stupidly manufactured drama and cop shows at this point just feed into copaganda and should die as a genre.
There have to be other types of shows beyond these 2-3 kinds that would mass appeal to people. What are your thoughts?
There are other types of shows. Hundreds of em. Just go watch those.
This is what the air networks have calculated will bring in the most views and thus ratings. If you don't like that, head to streaming to find something else.
Only if we get rid of the competition and reality shows as well.
Old white people watch them by the millions and its basically the only things with decent ratings anymore outside of a couple sitcoms like Young Sheldon and Abbot Elementary. I hate it as well I find a lot of streaming shows have bad pacing due to no limits on length I also hate shows that change lengths of episodes for no real reason one episode of the show Underground Railroad was like 18 mins compared to the rest being a hour. It was a flashback or whatever but just weird.
I want a show: Cops, Bangkok.
Yeah. American cop procedurals used to be good comfort tv for me growing up but they got too soapy. I then found British detective shows and I'm never looking back. I'd take a bullet for Foyle.
Dick Wolf can't be tamed. He'll rehash the same format over and over and ppl love it. Same as many shows. Like Walking Dead, everyone raving to me about it. I just said "lemme guess, it's not about zombies".
Anytime someone talks about cop shows feeding "copaganda", I wonder if they are actually watching said cop shows. I hear this said a lot about SVU, but anybody who actually watches SVU these days would know that in recent seasons the show has made a point to highlight police corruption. They do not paint cops as being perfect. They show some stories of cops being the hero of the story, and some of them being the villain.
Are you one of the few folks left watching US broadcast TV? Turn the lights out when you go…
But how am I supposed to inform Redditors of my superior tastes that way?
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I heard that if Dick Wolf doesn't get at least one new show greenlit every network TV season, a portal to hell opens up over Los Angeles.
Throw in firefighter shows to the mix. We have three of them doing well in ratings. Those are the shows that people are watching.
Sure we have shows like La Brea, Quantum Leap doing decent rating - but it is rare.
I agree.
But there are millions of people who are perfectly fine watching these things over and over, and they bring in the business. That's what drives it.
The expanded cable/streaming world is not lacking for unique and interesting ideas. Just stick to those.
Unfortunately the truth is more complicated than most people's individual feels and it's tough for a lowest-common denominator network procedural to realistically deal with that. I agree that SVU has been doing a decent job of it since 2020. All three L&Os are more nuanced than you would think. But they're also never going to fully lean into an ACAB stance because they're trying to appeal to the largest group of people possible. And that includes not only people who are pro-cop but also people who aren't but still want comfort food TV. And a lot of the time it feels like the stories where the cops are the "bad guys" in the episodes aren't exactly going full on in the other direction. And ultimately they are portraying "good cops."
The only show I think is pure Copaganda is Blue Bloods. The others at least show shades of grey.
There's also lawyer shows and survival shows!
>But they're also never going to fully lean into an ACAB stance
And they shouldn't fully lean into it. That would be no better than the cop propaganda these police procedurals used to be. It would just be the other extreme. The mixed bag approach of portraying both good and bad cops is better IMO.
I feel The Rookie tends to be Cop positive but mainly in the "this is how it supposed to be" sense. Fillon gets to say a bunch of stuff about cop policies and why they exist, we often get an on screen reason and then the plot does dumb fun. Same show has Smitty who is the critique of every bad unable to be fired cop persona out there.
The only time I think it’s a little bit fair when they take something you love and turn it in to another one of these shows. it’s like “Hey, you love Neil Gaiman right? I heard they’re doing a show based on his comics.” Yes yes yes! “It’s a police procedural where Lucifer helps the cops catch people.” Oh no. That’s not what I wanna hear at all. I’m not angry another police procedural, I’m angry THAT is a police procedural.
Good luck. Cop, doctor and lawyer shows are what brings most viewers in on network TV. Been that way for awhile. L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere.
Combine a couple and you have mega hits like Law and Order.
They aren't going anywhere. Best you can hope for is some kind of genre bend. Like vampire cop or immortal doctor or werewolf lawyer
But Psych is so good!
I get tired of murder mysteries now and then. It’s one thing to binge Castle once in a while, but I couldn’t watch it or mystery movies all the time. Watched Hallmark mysteries and a bunch of British ones for two weeks and got bored of them.
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I've never seen a crime show that didn't heavily deal with corrupt cops or something of the sort
TootieSummers t1_iuj3a3y wrote
I find that ignoring shows I have zero interest in takes no effort at all.