Why are
Americans obsessed with cop shows? Why must we cover every possible nook and cranny
of our particular criminal justice problems?
Hollywood
is so desperate for warm bodies that they got Titus Welliver(!?) (WHO?) to play Harry
Bosch in Bosch. Available on Amazon. They set the show in LA. I guess so they
could show the grit and the glamour.
America’s
fetish with cop shows is an outgrowth of the fetish for workplace drama. It feels
like a very paint-by-numbers as cop shows go. Harry Bosch plays a work-obsessed
homicide cop who lives in a very nice home because he sold a story to
Hollywood.
The show
has an over-arching case which it finally arrives at, nearly halfway through
the pilot.
Bosch
seems as though it’s dialoging with Law & Order. Why?! Why can’t it talk
with The Wire instead? It certainly has enough of the actors to do that!
Disgruntled
civil servants is so overplayed as a TV trope that it seeped its way onto the
internet like toxic slime.
Can’t we use Dawn to clean this up?
Can we get some
celebrities to sing and dance to raise awareness and money to pay for the
government to airlift other tropes to Hollywood?
What are
Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears doing? They’re not too busy, right?
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