this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

You forgot ncis

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

should have replaced CSI NY with Blue Bloods, same message, same city.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 43 minutes ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago)

Back the blue and buy a reverse mortgage

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"But they're just TV shows" "it's not that deep" etc. I would implore you to listen to this excellent episode of Citations Needed..

It covers how modern cop shows were invented directly to counter shows that portrayed defence lawyers as the protagonists, along with a general push to lionize the police state despite its inability to prevent crime or deliver real justice.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Crazy how much of this stuff is subsidized by or directly financed by the national security state. The most infamous, in my memory anyway, was the Transformers Franchise which got enormous access to US military staff and equipment during the shooting. The end result was a movie that felt more like one of those hookey 80s "Join the Marines" ads than a piece of action cinema.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

NGL CSI was my shit growing up. Though I was never deluded into believing that accurately reflected reality to any extent. ACAB

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Where does stuff like Brooklyn 99 come in?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I tend to lump it in with The West Wing as idealistic wish fulfilment of how we'd like things to be, or a picture of our human potential.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Fetish content

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I like the myth of the police, not actual cops, I like Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz, actual cops can suck a nard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 42 minutes ago
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