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Bushgjl OP t1_j5hmetv wrote

Reply to comment by DougieJackpots in I like The Wire but it's seriously flawed by Bushgjl

Maybe it's just the time this show was made in, But since 2002 there has been Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, etc fucking endless.

So watching this show about cops abusing their power in such ways, there isn't anything amusing about it to me. And they make jokes about it in the show and I have to wonder if people at the time laughed at it.

The police since that time I feel like have lost a lot of respect in general society.

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Dirtytarget t1_j5hnmtt wrote

It wasn’t supposed to be funny. It was showing that the police were fucked up people who often did things just as horrible as the criminals they arrested

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Bushgjl OP t1_j5homie wrote

They frame it in the show as a joke.

Like in season 1 they detain one of the goons and assault him in the interrogation room. And then Omar says "He really knows how to bring it out of people", and then the scene ends like it is an actual fucking joke.

I don't get it, I just don't. I have to believe police lost a lot of respect in society after this show ended to even think about putting that in there.

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Dirtytarget t1_j5hoy84 wrote

Do you not understand story telling or is this rage bait?

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Bushgjl OP t1_j5hp76j wrote

It's not storytellings thats the issue.

They horrifically beat a guy during interrogation, made a joke, and then that just gets dropped from the show. It is like even the writers forget they are actually police.

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bloodyturtle t1_j5hpm9n wrote

police do that shit all the time dog

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Bushgjl OP t1_j5hq68x wrote

Yeah but I'm not gonna watch an HBO series sympathizing with Derek Chauvin, am I?

If you want to make a police show where the3 police are that shitty and have them as main characters, it needs to be an almost lawless setting like Deadwood or Justified.

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DougieJackpots t1_j5hrjhl wrote

For the most part bunk and mcnutty are “real police”… there are much bigger assholes in the show. They’re chasing monsters

Edit: also there are a lot of shows with shitty awful characters that are wildly entertaining

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Bushgjl OP t1_j5hsdvp wrote

I found the characters to be too wooden so that their bad attributes were the only things that stood out.

There was no heart to them.

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