“And then the evil bad cop who was secretly a terrorist manipulates the dumb naive youth into protesting police violence, causing a riot which is used as a distraction for the bad cop to do a bank heist and now it’s up to the handsome good cop who doesn’t play by the rules to stop the bad cop while rolling his eyes at the dumb leftists who are so easily manipulated by their emotions”
Protagonist cop is forced to abide by the new woke training making them hesitate to shoot a black teenager, who takes advantage of this to kill all the babies in the maternity ward for shits and giggles
Also the naive young vegan anarchist is a massive misogynist, yet the main character cop is the perfect dad and husband who would do anything for his devoted wife.
Or: Even though the main character cop is the perfect dad and husband who would do everything for his family, his ungrateful b*tch wife has divorced him. However, when she gets taken hostage by the (Russian or Arab) terrorists the protagonist hero cop has to save her which makes her realise the errors of her ways and come back home.
In the sequel, action hero man meets Natasha, a simple and uncomplicated women who hasn’t been corrupted by the selfish propaganda of breadtube. Action hero man takes her away from the local mens who don’t respect her like whyte man™ does. Finally Natasha is free from her walkable city with functioning infrastructure, to forever live in the eden that is Southern Ohio,
This is almost verbatim the plot of True Lies, except they aren’t divorced and Arnie’s character is some agent type, so not technically a cop.
I can’t think of a single season of TV in my lifetime that didn’t have multiple cop shows on prime time. Piggies love their slop
I can’t stand cop shows anymore after seeing The Wire. I couldn’t stand them before, but especially when a show came along that actually depicted how law enforcement works.
It’s a show that spans a five-year period and there’s really only one case, the Greek. Everything connects back to him, from the original Barksdale murders, to the shipping container murders, then eventually Marlo. The show displays the hundreds of hours of investigation, trials, witnesses, and sheer bureaucracy that goes into a case. All while not shying away from police brutality and corruption.
So what the fuck even are these cop shows post-Wire? They’re still showing cops solving multiple homicides each week with 100% accuracy. “Heh, I don’t play by the rules! I work alone!” trash is still the main types of characters, despite that kind of behavior being a good way to get cases thrown out (cops planting evidence may be why Luigi walks, even if he did do it).
I know the obvious answer is “Police procedurals are easy to write and produce, while doing double-duty as propaganda to justify how fucking garbage are system is.” But you’d think they’d switch it up to something else like anti-terrorism spy slop.
The Wire still humanizes cops and barely mentions the racism inherent to policing though. There’s like one racist cop who gets reassigned immediately. The entire show spends maybe five minutes on him. I think the reality of cops is that they are rich, racist, cowardly buffoons who nonetheless follow almost any order. We never see them depicted in this way in any corporate media.
You ain’t lying. Even after watching the shield and the pure fuckery there you see other shows I felt the same.
- this script was literally approved by the US military
