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Delphi (they/them) ([personal profile] delphi) wrote in [community profile] tv_talk 2024-02-12 11:57 pm (UTC)

Admittedly, I haven't had the best interactions with law enforcement myself, so there are aspects of those kinds of procedurals that I've always found stressful. But absolutely, in recent years the suspension of disbelief / distance of fiction over certain elements just isn't there for me in a way that makes for comfort viewing. Even on non-LEO shows, like case-of-the-week medical dramas, I just get uncomfortably distracted by things like doctors breaking into patients' houses, forcing the revelation of people's secrets, or administering improper or fake treatments to teach someone a lesson.

Don't get me wrong, there's a ton of TV full of things that aren't okay in real life that I happily shut that critical part of my brain off for. This just isn't one of those areas for me.

If you watch video essays and haven't already seen these, Skip Intro has a series on TV copaganda that raises some great points and asks interesting questions while also being grounded and understanding about what people enjoy about law enforcement procedurals.

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