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?

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TootieSummers t1_iuj3a3y wrote

I find that ignoring shows I have zero interest in takes no effort at all.

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Try_Another_Please t1_iuj3a6c wrote

There are other types of shows. Hundreds of em. Just go watch those.

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JasonMartin327 t1_iuj3iy8 wrote

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.

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reddit455 t1_iuj3vcm wrote

those are "staples"

NYPD Blue, Hill Street, ER, Third Watch, St Elsewhere, The Wire, yadda yadda.

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mcolston57 t1_iuj3zbz wrote

Only if we get rid of the competition and reality shows as well.

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DaddyTheNihilist t1_iuj50ej wrote

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.

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Kylon1138 t1_iuj5h9k wrote

>I'm exhausted by every single new show being about cops, doctors, or firefighters.

Then don't watch them

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PetyrDayne t1_iuj63p9 wrote

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.

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ricardo9505 t1_iuj64ks wrote

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".

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GaryTheCabalGuy t1_iuj6fk7 wrote

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.

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fu_aurora t1_iuj7a70 wrote

Yet they'll keep making more and call it "The Good _______" 😜

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lightsongtheold t1_iuj8eyl wrote

Are you one of the few folks left watching US broadcast TV? Turn the lights out when you go…

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General-Law-7338 t1_iuj96j2 wrote

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.

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RegularGuy815 t1_iuj9c5b wrote

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.

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Prax150 t1_iuj9kx7 wrote

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."

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Starbuck522 t1_iujai5o wrote

There's also lawyer shows and survival shows!

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GaryTheCabalGuy t1_iujb1qu wrote

>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.

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logicalnoise t1_iuje0r7 wrote

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.

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meowskywalker t1_iujg0rr wrote

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.

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Roook36 t1_iujhqgn wrote

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

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Skavau t1_iujmbhy wrote

Hello are you from 2004

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JustJess234 t1_iujrvzc wrote

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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