Is this formula popular again because TV producers are aware that public criticism of cop-aganda is on the upswing?
I wonder how much is sort of a more general idea that a story premise has more freedom if it's not always tied to literal law enforcement institutions. A PI/vigilante can collaborate with the cops sometimes, and be rogue much of the time -- and feel like the underdog all the time! But also, I figure they know that in the back of an audience's mind is -- more than it would have been five years ago -- concern about corner-cutting, police brutality, forced confessions, minimum sentences, unequal enforcement and sentencing, and so on, reducing uncritical enjoyment of cop shows.
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Date: 2021-08-31 07:02 pm (UTC)I wonder how much is sort of a more general idea that a story premise has more freedom if it's not always tied to literal law enforcement institutions. A PI/vigilante can collaborate with the cops sometimes, and be rogue much of the time -- and feel like the underdog all the time! But also, I figure they know that in the back of an audience's mind is -- more than it would have been five years ago -- concern about corner-cutting, police brutality, forced confessions, minimum sentences, unequal enforcement and sentencing, and so on, reducing uncritical enjoyment of cop shows.