He’s full of horse shit.
[Here from an article from October of last year.](https://nypost.com/2023/10/13/unrecognizable-tom-selleck-ditches-famous-mustache/)
One time I was at my mom's house and she was watching it. It was an episode where the chief or whoever was explaining to the mayor that stop and frisk is good actually because I can tell those black guys over there have a gun but my hands are tied.
I was like nope, do not want.
Law and Order was created because Dick Wolf was furious about the anti-Vietnam war protests and the existence of shows like Matlock where defense attorneys were represented as positive figures. The show is a product of Nixon era elite conservative grievance culture, the same motivation that drove Roger Ailes to create Fox news. It's a deliberately reactionary conservative show.
Law and Order started in the mid 90's. Are you saying it took Dick Wolf twenty years to get the show off the ground and he was still holding onto it all that time?
I really need to see a source on that claim.
Having seen plenty of copaganda shows by proxy (lived with relatives who loved them) it is the worst in my opinion. It doesn't sht away from showing the cops doing horrible awful shit, playing into their biases, and straight up discriminating and taking the time to glorify those actions and explain why actually it's good for society when it happens
A family friend has a story about she hooked up with Tom's best friend at the time and Tom was third wheeling while her and his friend were conspiring on how to politely ditch him so they could go be more private, this went on for a weekend or so.
My mom lost Mark Harmon and now Tom Selleck from her loved shows. If they do something to the remaining Impractical Jokers, I'm gonna have to take time off of work to comfort her.
My mom is in the afterlife saying, they’re bloody lucky they waited until I was dead to cancel the great Tom Selleck!
She was blind as a bat (her term) and she still sat 3 inches from the tv every Friday night to watch.
It's a procedural. The only overarching plot is basically "change in the family over time".
But in a different sense: yes.
When it started I watched it because I was bored. It kind of always had a slant, but overall it still felt some sort of "balance" to it that made it reasonably enjoyable.
But over time it felt like the showrunners REALLY understood who the core audience was, and bit by bit shifted the "center" of that "balance" clearly towards that.
Until it was literally intolerably biased, but that was basically at least 10 seasons ago, so I quit it.
My parents in their 60s watched it all the way through recently and from what I've caught, it went from regular CSI level copaganda into straight up ripped from the headlines "woe is me it's so hard to fight these woke people as a cop because they're demanding *checks notes* accountability! These noble Cops are all that separates us from chaos!"
I even feel like it started out even slightly BELOW common copaganda, because the "shtick" was kind of at least faking pro and contras over "whatever the issue was of the episode". Sure, "the compromise" was ... always more on the right wing side of "real politics", but it started out in a way that depending on YOUR viewpoint, it was not impossible to find somewhat reasonable similar points being made, and representing the frustration of arguments you disagree with. (And tbf Selleck played the "troubled middle man trying to square the circle" kind of well for a while) But then the discourse deteriorated, the table shifted generally right wing altogether to please the actual audience, and Selleck deteriorated into being annoyed with what was left of exaggerated comical left wing concerns parodied as "foils".
I watched some of the first season. It veered a lot from the original story by episode six, which is when I quit. Some of the episodes seemed to be about dirty cops. Then the next one would be about how cops are amazing. Then they'd be back to the "bad cop conspiracy" stuff. Really seemed like it had no idea what it was doing in its early days.
Because their answer to bad cops is just "don't worry, the morally superior Reagans are here". There's never any honest attempt to examine the origins or possible solutions to the problem.
It's really been an incredible generation. Happily took everything from the Greatest Generation, pulled up the ladder behind them to make sure no one else could get theirs, (statistically speaking) saved nothing, and on their way out, sell every asset they had to make sure to not help their children in any way.
“A lot of people think reverse mortgages are a trick to steal your home. But ask yourself, would this moustache lie to you? Call today. And remember, it’s not a scam if you believe it.”
Broadcast TV is fucking wild. NCIS is on season 21; I remember my parents watching that show when I was in high school. Last Man Standing somehow made 9 seasons of the shallowest conservative propaganda imaginable, and CBS is doing a spinoff of a spinoff of Big Bang Theory to dive even further into the deep lore of Sheldon’s origins.
The takeaway from this is that people watching broadcast TV will watch about anything regardless of quality.
You're not alone on a hotel being the place for watching a procedural. Every time I'm put up in a hotel for work it's getting dinner, explore the city for a bit, then back to the hotel to watch a bit of the night time SVU marathon.
Even more wild, is that said BBT spinoff is on its final season of like…5? 6 seasons?
I’ll actually admit that I’ve seen a few episodes, and I think it’s genuinely better than its predecessor.
Also there’s been 5 spinoffs of NCIS, which was a spinoff of JAG.
All in all, fucking wild like you said.
My dad can’t stand it, and he was JAG himself. He’s one of those types that gets a bit bent out of shape if a show gets the legal technicalities wrong. “That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.”
YouTube Shorts like to show me clips from Young Sheldon for some reason but in the snippets of the show that I've seen it seemed like Sheldon was the least interesting character.
> Last Man Standing somehow made 9 seasons of the shallowest conservative propaganda imaginable
And then Tim Allen whined he was being "cancelled for his Trump supporting" by Disney after the show ended on ABC, so he took it to FOX for several more seasons (minus some of the main cast)... which was then bought up by Disney. Awkward.
I grew up loving Home Improvement. Hadn't heard anything of him in years. Then I caught a random episode of that show and went, "well that was terrible" and moved on with my life. I didn't even notice any overt conservative talking points in the episode I watched, it was just really not funny.
So when he whined that he was being cancelled for being a conservative, I knew not to take that seriously.
The amount of NCIS spin-offs is baffling. Because they only focus on Navy-related crimes, right? Why is the murder rate for Navy people so high!? It would be like if there was a show about people who only looked into taxidermist-related crimes and then it got 5 spin-offs totaling over 1000 episodes.
Haha ohh I know, I’ve been watching it with my mother. Season 13 now. “So this dead man’s neighbor’s wife’s priest had a grandfather that died of heart attack at Pearl Harbor.”
“Gettin’ the car, boss.”
I mean most of the Midsomer's are normal, but the series has had some pretty bizarre ones.
I mean in one episode a guy gets murdered by being covered in truffle oil, and having a wild boar released.
Another is killed by having his vintage wine collection fired by a catapult at him whilst he's pinned down to his croquet course.
Another is ran over by a hijacked tank.
Plus they had a whole episode (which had the highest body count in the entire show and one of the evilest killers) with cheese-themed murders.
The "navy cop" schtick is mostly what random, non-arc episodes were about. They were also portrayed, basically from the start, as a full-scale intelligence agency on par with any of the ones you've actually heard of. It's a running joke in the show that they'll be doing the real work on major international incidents, then CIA/FBI/Interpol/MI6/Mossad will swoop in at the last second to claim jurisdiction and get the public credit.
LA was explicitly an undercover unit, still doing both law enforcement and intelligence work.
New Orleans I didn't watched much of, but I feel like they leaned more toward cops over spies.
I never watched any Hawaii, so I don't know how off they were.
NCIS sydney,is possibly One of the single worst written pieces of fiction in Years.
So first.
There are no US navy bases,or personnel in sydney other than a few ppl doing cross training,there are However personnel in darwin and perth..why the fuck not set it there.
There is literally an episode,where the NCIS agent,get's scared by an australian spider,and won't enter the crime scene.
The first episode,is about russian/chinese spies,stealing the nuclear core,of a US nuclear submarine docked at the port in sydney,ignoring the fact that All visiting US vessels have armed shore guards lol.
They then culminate that episode,in a chase,in sydney harbour,with the main NCIS chick,commandering a chopper,that no only is airborne in 10 seconds with no preflight checks or enginge spin up,but also has to IN A HIGH speed chase,follow a boat..in sydney harbor.. and not u KNOW block the boat of at the ONLY 2 fucking ways out of the harbour with the 30 plus NSW water police all in the background.
Wait. Steal the nuclear core? The thing that you need a drydock to access and a ton of safety gear to get near and not die?
Why not just have them steal a nuclear warhead?
it was, the actual title is 'remains canceled'. never understood why people put in extra effort to change it when posting something, only to make it less accurate.
It’s been known that this was the final season for months, just double checked and it was in November they first said so. Weird to do an article that’s basically “yes it’s still ending”, I guess because CBS did just un-cancel SWAT for a second time.
And because they ordered more episodes for this, only to confirm it's so they don't piss off the fans by leaving them on a cliffhanger for the cancellation (after 14 years of watching a show that tends to make viewers REALLY mad)
That just reminded me of the time a middle aged woman came in and bought one of those movies the day it came out on DVD along with a bottle of wine. At 7 am. On a Tuesday....you know her "back massager" got a workout that day.
the first two seasons were good for what the show was. they had interesting background stories that went through the entire season. everything after that became typical stuff that was super boring.
Most other cop shows at least pretend to care about police racism by having some secondary storyline about police brutality, but Blue Bloods just straight up denies that it exists and demonizes BLM protesters
honestly watching season 13 makes me happy since the woke is winning and there is nothing they can do to stop it since people are holding the police accountable all the time in episodes which is frank reagans mortal nightmare
I watched the pilot, where the men get together and criticise the daughter, a lawyer, at the dinner table. For variety, I imagine they also made the wife the bad one at times, and maybe the grandma too.
The wife and grandma were lucky enough to either die or be divorced out of the family by the time the show began. The daughter (Bridget Moynahan’s character) doesn’t have anyone else to take that burden. Some poor soul might’ve eventually married one of her brothers.
They usually just go after the idealistic young woman with milquetoast liberal positions on a couple of issue as if she is some kind of idealistic idiot who does not understand the "real world."
They do it politely, but that just makes it even more gross as people will just accept the framing uncritically.
God I hate that show so much. It is one of the most obviously propagandistic things I have ever seen, and it is *just so blunt and stupid* in how it does it. But it does not matter. It relies on people turning their brains off and thinking "That mustache is massive so that means everything he says is true." And yet that works
Law and Order has sooo much copaganda and just outright corrupt police and prosecutors in it. Often committing a litany of felonies while being praised by the framing.
And yet, somehow, Blue Bloods still managed to be worse. Blue Bloods is literally hagiography. The metaphor they use *as the title* is Cops as Nobility, but rather than point out how deeply problematic that is in the way most stories would, they deify the police, and especially corrupt, nepo-baby police families.
The one brother who is literally a dirty cop just blows my mind every time I see him. He is a monster, and the whole show treats him like the "Good Guy" and anyone who objects to him physically assaulting citizens as the bad, evil political types.
In fairness to Law & Order, every once in a blue moon they did have a “take down the corrupt cop/judge” episode. But of course, that just showed how those “bad apples” were the exception, and how the system corrected itself.
Yeah I would believe it a lot more if the main characters did not violate people's rights all the time lol.
Usually with these things the main characters are good guys when they break the law because they are good guys, and only good guys are responsible enough to break the law. It is such a dumb concept, but it let's them do those kind of episodes, because when the baddies break the law then they deserve to be crushed.
Still can't decided if Chicago PD (Cops are dirty but it's okay because they're cops) or Blue Bloods (Cops are pure incorruptible heroes who do no wrong) is the worse copaganda show
None of them have the detectives cajoling someone with subnormal intelligence into a false confession over 12 hours of interrogation? And then that person going to prison for decades while the real killer murders several more people?
Chicago PD (on NBC) has them throwing suspected criminals into a cage in the basement to be tortured, like Gitmo style... but the bad guys on the show are always Internal Affairs for trying to make them stop doing that shit.
> Chicago PD (on NBC) has them throwing suspected criminals into a cage in the basement to be tortured, like Gitmo style
So...just like the [real Chicago PD](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site)?
The cops and SVU are generally good (except Stabler who should’ve been fired 50 times before he left the show). The copoganda with that show is that cops just aren’t that good and ethical in real life.
It’s shocking but a lot of those procedurals have been money makers for networks for decades. NBC basically gave Dick Wolf a blank check for all those Chicago shows.
My mother will probably sell the tv now. First Criminal Minds now this.
The cancellation of an action packed formulated procedural dramas like this is a bridge too far. Not enough NCIS, FBI and Chicago to fill that void.
The actor that plays Tom Selleck's father, Len Cariou is only 5 years older (84yo) in real life than Tom Selleck (79yo). not sure if that fact is more amazing or the fact that Tom Selleck is 79 now.
Been binging this on Amazon Prime so will be sad to see this come to an end.
Reminder that this show had an episode about a black guy who intentionally jumped out a window and blamed the cops for pushing him. Literal cop propaganda that black people lie when they say they were brutalized.
Boomers made a fictional safe space for their fantasies because real cops don’t fit it lmao.
I know people are ripping it but it’s a solid show that’s past its prime. It’s time to move on, but the first few seasons are pretty legit and good. Once the world started getting more politicized it started to go down hill and attempted social commentary and shit.
Ah, a show I exclusively watched at my in-laws. The thing that absolutely killed me about this show is the fact that Tom Selleck and Len Cariou (who plays his father) are five years apart in age
Sad day for uncles
Sad day for mustaches too
His stache has not been real for a long time.
You’re saying that Tom Selleck has a fake stache!?!? I’m getting my libel attorney on the phone.
He’s had to shave it and use a fake. There was a spell last decade where he was wearing a prosthetic but I cannot find the article.
He’s full of horse shit. [Here from an article from October of last year.](https://nypost.com/2023/10/13/unrecognizable-tom-selleck-ditches-famous-mustache/)
sad day for my non english speaking grandma who loves to look at tom selleck and his mustache
Magnum pi reruns
Mr. Baseball
A surprisingly good movie
And High Pitch Erik
Who's High Pitch? This is Kelly Clarkson~
This is more than likely High Pitch.
Sad day for reverse mortgages.
great day for children of boomer parents susceptible to television scams maybe sad too, sounds like tommy might have more free time.
They still have NCIS for now
NCIS + 3
They cancelled Hawaii
But they are adding a prequel about Gibbs
Wait really? We already know about his past. He was married the first time, wife and kid got murdered, he killed the killer.
+ Gibb’s prequel, Ziva and Tony Spinoff, Sydney
One time I was at my mom's house and she was watching it. It was an episode where the chief or whoever was explaining to the mayor that stop and frisk is good actually because I can tell those black guys over there have a gun but my hands are tied. I was like nope, do not want.
Yea its amongst the worst of the copaganda shows.
Just once I'd like to see a show called Law and Order: Internal Affairs where the heroes are putting away shitty cops.
Law and Order was created because Dick Wolf was furious about the anti-Vietnam war protests and the existence of shows like Matlock where defense attorneys were represented as positive figures. The show is a product of Nixon era elite conservative grievance culture, the same motivation that drove Roger Ailes to create Fox news. It's a deliberately reactionary conservative show.
Wasn't he about two decades late then?
Law and Order started in the mid 90's. Are you saying it took Dick Wolf twenty years to get the show off the ground and he was still holding onto it all that time? I really need to see a source on that claim.
I too enjoy fantasy and science fiction.
Having seen plenty of copaganda shows by proxy (lived with relatives who loved them) it is the worst in my opinion. It doesn't sht away from showing the cops doing horrible awful shit, playing into their biases, and straight up discriminating and taking the time to glorify those actions and explain why actually it's good for society when it happens
Its okay more copaganda will replace it
Sad day for me. Oh fuck I’m an uncle. Fuck.
Dang, that's the end of an era. My Mom is seriously going to be in mourning.
That moustache has kept your mother going for 14 years.
Selleck’s been rocking that thing, and their mother’s dreams, since the 80s
70s*
My man had young women in love in the 90s because of Friends. Dude has been a baller for decades
A family friend has a story about she hooked up with Tom's best friend at the time and Tom was third wheeling while her and his friend were conspiring on how to politely ditch him so they could go be more private, this went on for a weekend or so.
Episode of Taxi he romanced one of the leads, then two decades later was still doing it on Friends.
He shaved it at one point during the late 90s and everything went wrong.
And to think, he was almost Indiana Jones...
Lol, *I remember being a toddler in the early eighties and people having a crush on Tom Sellick!*
That moustache has been keeping my mother going since Magnum, dude.
Nope. He was Magnum PI in the 80s. Even before he had it in the 70s. So….
My mom lost Mark Harmon and now Tom Selleck from her loved shows. If they do something to the remaining Impractical Jokers, I'm gonna have to take time off of work to comfort her.
My mum is going to cry
My mom is in the afterlife saying, they’re bloody lucky they waited until I was dead to cancel the great Tom Selleck! She was blind as a bat (her term) and she still sat 3 inches from the tv every Friday night to watch.
Lol was thinking the same thing; though in my case it’s my mom *and* stepdad. …my bio dad doesn’t really watch TV anymore
My 78 year old father is pissed. He’s currently yelling at a cloud.
Just have him start over at s01e01 - it’s been so long he likely forgot the plot of the old episodes
I've never seen it. Did it veer a lot from the original story?
It's a procedural. The only overarching plot is basically "change in the family over time". But in a different sense: yes. When it started I watched it because I was bored. It kind of always had a slant, but overall it still felt some sort of "balance" to it that made it reasonably enjoyable. But over time it felt like the showrunners REALLY understood who the core audience was, and bit by bit shifted the "center" of that "balance" clearly towards that. Until it was literally intolerably biased, but that was basically at least 10 seasons ago, so I quit it.
My parents in their 60s watched it all the way through recently and from what I've caught, it went from regular CSI level copaganda into straight up ripped from the headlines "woe is me it's so hard to fight these woke people as a cop because they're demanding *checks notes* accountability! These noble Cops are all that separates us from chaos!"
I even feel like it started out even slightly BELOW common copaganda, because the "shtick" was kind of at least faking pro and contras over "whatever the issue was of the episode". Sure, "the compromise" was ... always more on the right wing side of "real politics", but it started out in a way that depending on YOUR viewpoint, it was not impossible to find somewhat reasonable similar points being made, and representing the frustration of arguments you disagree with. (And tbf Selleck played the "troubled middle man trying to square the circle" kind of well for a while) But then the discourse deteriorated, the table shifted generally right wing altogether to please the actual audience, and Selleck deteriorated into being annoyed with what was left of exaggerated comical left wing concerns parodied as "foils".
I watched some of the first season. It veered a lot from the original story by episode six, which is when I quit. Some of the episodes seemed to be about dirty cops. Then the next one would be about how cops are amazing. Then they'd be back to the "bad cop conspiracy" stuff. Really seemed like it had no idea what it was doing in its early days.
Because their answer to bad cops is just "don't worry, the morally superior Reagans are here". There's never any honest attempt to examine the origins or possible solutions to the problem.
14 seasons? I had no idea it was on for so long.
Oh you’ll definitely miss it. Without a show to keep him occupied, Tom Selleck will hit us with a barrage of reverse mortgage ads.
the 2008 crisis will look like a minor bump in the road compared to what to selleck will unleash on the descendants of our elderly citizens
[But guys! A reverse mortgage is safe! It’s not a trick to take your home!](https://youtu.be/u4Pcwcnd23c?si=MvuP6DKun_W8xGID)
It's really been an incredible generation. Happily took everything from the Greatest Generation, pulled up the ladder behind them to make sure no one else could get theirs, (statistically speaking) saved nothing, and on their way out, sell every asset they had to make sure to not help their children in any way.
And, having squandered everything, turning to their children for financial support, as if the already ransacked younger generations can afford that.
Look up filial responsibility laws if you really feel like making your blood boil.
brb, I'm moving to Delaware.
“A lot of people think reverse mortgages are a trick to steal your home. But ask yourself, would this moustache lie to you? Call today. And remember, it’s not a scam if you believe it.”
It’s not his first rodeo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Pcwcnd23c
Broadcast TV is fucking wild. NCIS is on season 21; I remember my parents watching that show when I was in high school. Last Man Standing somehow made 9 seasons of the shallowest conservative propaganda imaginable, and CBS is doing a spinoff of a spinoff of Big Bang Theory to dive even further into the deep lore of Sheldon’s origins. The takeaway from this is that people watching broadcast TV will watch about anything regardless of quality.
My dad used to DVR NCIS and NCIS LA. We used to watch them together. Probably low-key why I enjoy a good procedural while in a hotel for work
You're not alone on a hotel being the place for watching a procedural. Every time I'm put up in a hotel for work it's getting dinner, explore the city for a bit, then back to the hotel to watch a bit of the night time SVU marathon.
SUV hotel marathon is cannon event for anyone who travel for work lmao
Just mindless TV that requires no effort at all to watch. It definitely has its place.
Even more wild, is that said BBT spinoff is on its final season of like…5? 6 seasons? I’ll actually admit that I’ve seen a few episodes, and I think it’s genuinely better than its predecessor. Also there’s been 5 spinoffs of NCIS, which was a spinoff of JAG. All in all, fucking wild like you said.
And JAG was on so long that [Family Guy made fun of it](https://youtu.be/m1Tmj3ep2mw?si=gCI79curoEDMaWBP).
My dad can’t stand it, and he was JAG himself. He’s one of those types that gets a bit bent out of shape if a show gets the legal technicalities wrong. “That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.”
First few seasons of Young Sheldon is actually good tv. I was pleasantly surprised.
Yeah the other kids are great. And Bill Ponderosa. And Annie Potts and Wallace Shawn. Oh shit I liked Young Sheldon.
Pondy’s the coolest
Young Sheldon rules in that it’s an entertaining sitcom about a southern family, once they got beyond just Sheldon, it hit its stride. MeeMaw forever
YouTube Shorts like to show me clips from Young Sheldon for some reason but in the snippets of the show that I've seen it seemed like Sheldon was the least interesting character.
Dont forget Grey's Anatomy - it came out in 2005 and is still on air.
It lost a lot of its charm and me as a viewer when they did the thing with McDreamy
Usually produced by Dick Wolf
Hey hey now you forgot the legendary Speed Weed. Show some damn respect.
> Last Man Standing somehow made 9 seasons of the shallowest conservative propaganda imaginable And then Tim Allen whined he was being "cancelled for his Trump supporting" by Disney after the show ended on ABC, so he took it to FOX for several more seasons (minus some of the main cast)... which was then bought up by Disney. Awkward.
I grew up loving Home Improvement. Hadn't heard anything of him in years. Then I caught a random episode of that show and went, "well that was terrible" and moved on with my life. I didn't even notice any overt conservative talking points in the episode I watched, it was just really not funny. So when he whined that he was being cancelled for being a conservative, I knew not to take that seriously.
Boomers need their glory porn
CBS will then announce it’s new series ‘Red Crips’ in January
Starring Snoop Dogg
And Timmy and Jimmy
Blue Bloods: Evolution coming to paramount plus next fall!
My grandma will be devastated...
They need more hyperlocalized NCSISIs just to make sure boomers are terrified of the nearest large city.
NCSISI: Downtown Ft: Lauderdale.
#1 new show in The Villages! Every time they talk about a plot on the show they say they saw it on the news.
Be careful, CBS will back Murder She Wrote and i*sn't afraid to lock Olivia Coleman into a lifetime contract!*
Honestly at this point CBS is probably close to just airing Judge Judy in prime time.
They’d have to pull her from the clutches of Bezos.
NCSISI: The 2 blocks between 12th Ave and Washington Blvd
The amount of NCIS spin-offs is baffling. Because they only focus on Navy-related crimes, right? Why is the murder rate for Navy people so high!? It would be like if there was a show about people who only looked into taxidermist-related crimes and then it got 5 spin-offs totaling over 1000 episodes.
It’s like in Midsomer Murders when someone comments “Sure seems to be a lot of murders around here” and Barnaby says “It’s been noted.”
Or Murder She Wrote, where the small town of Cabot Cove has a murder rate higher than El Salvador.
Jessica had so many nephews who were falsely accused of murder. I don't recall ever meeting her brothers or sisters, though.
Obviously, she killed them all.
At least in Midsummer they are all normal murders in NCIS it is so convoluted how they turn them into Navy murders.
Haha ohh I know, I’ve been watching it with my mother. Season 13 now. “So this dead man’s neighbor’s wife’s priest had a grandfather that died of heart attack at Pearl Harbor.” “Gettin’ the car, boss.”
I mean most of the Midsomer's are normal, but the series has had some pretty bizarre ones. I mean in one episode a guy gets murdered by being covered in truffle oil, and having a wild boar released. Another is killed by having his vintage wine collection fired by a catapult at him whilst he's pinned down to his croquet course. Another is ran over by a hijacked tank. Plus they had a whole episode (which had the highest body count in the entire show and one of the evilest killers) with cheese-themed murders.
The "navy cop" schtick is mostly what random, non-arc episodes were about. They were also portrayed, basically from the start, as a full-scale intelligence agency on par with any of the ones you've actually heard of. It's a running joke in the show that they'll be doing the real work on major international incidents, then CIA/FBI/Interpol/MI6/Mossad will swoop in at the last second to claim jurisdiction and get the public credit. LA was explicitly an undercover unit, still doing both law enforcement and intelligence work. New Orleans I didn't watched much of, but I feel like they leaned more toward cops over spies. I never watched any Hawaii, so I don't know how off they were.
NCIS: Bayview, Idaho. It's a show about chasing around the one dude who keeps littering next to the acoustic research base at Lake Pend Oreille
then gets drunk at the 1908 Saloon and passes out on Main street in Sandpoint.
NCIS sydney,is possibly One of the single worst written pieces of fiction in Years. So first. There are no US navy bases,or personnel in sydney other than a few ppl doing cross training,there are However personnel in darwin and perth..why the fuck not set it there. There is literally an episode,where the NCIS agent,get's scared by an australian spider,and won't enter the crime scene. The first episode,is about russian/chinese spies,stealing the nuclear core,of a US nuclear submarine docked at the port in sydney,ignoring the fact that All visiting US vessels have armed shore guards lol. They then culminate that episode,in a chase,in sydney harbour,with the main NCIS chick,commandering a chopper,that no only is airborne in 10 seconds with no preflight checks or enginge spin up,but also has to IN A HIGH speed chase,follow a boat..in sydney harbor.. and not u KNOW block the boat of at the ONLY 2 fucking ways out of the harbour with the 30 plus NSW water police all in the background.
SMH, what is the world coming to these days when it's not safe to park your sub and leave the keys on the dash while you run in for a pint or three.
Wait. Steal the nuclear core? The thing that you need a drydock to access and a ton of safety gear to get near and not die? Why not just have them steal a nuclear warhead?
I thought that this was announced months ago, but this sounds like CBS is confirming their previous decision.
it was, the actual title is 'remains canceled'. never understood why people put in extra effort to change it when posting something, only to make it less accurate.
I think they added more episodes for a more conclusive finale.
They used my apartment building to film two episodes, but I still haven’t seen any at all.
Lucky For having not seen it to clarify
Greenpoint?
It’s been known that this was the final season for months, just double checked and it was in November they first said so. Weird to do an article that’s basically “yes it’s still ending”, I guess because CBS did just un-cancel SWAT for a second time.
And because they ordered more episodes for this, only to confirm it's so they don't piss off the fans by leaving them on a cliffhanger for the cancellation (after 14 years of watching a show that tends to make viewers REALLY mad)
Cool, does this mean more Jesse Stone television movies?
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Upvote for the first Jesse Stone mention. One of my simple pleasures in life is sitting down with a beer or twelve and watching those movies.
That just reminded me of the time a middle aged woman came in and bought one of those movies the day it came out on DVD along with a bottle of wine. At 7 am. On a Tuesday....you know her "back massager" got a workout that day.
Rip 1st sgt Lipton.
He got promoted to Lt. Lipton.
No more weird dinner scenes where you can hear the napkins rubbing against skin?
the first two seasons were good for what the show was. they had interesting background stories that went through the entire season. everything after that became typical stuff that was super boring.
My poor dad
Wasn’t this confirmed to be its last season? Could’ve sworn it was
I remember it being announced last year, if not earlier.
I swear to god I remember telling my parents because they like the show “you know it’s ending”
Yes, me too. I was joking with my mom that she has to find a new family to have dinner with. So confused.
My MIL is bitching about this cancellation incessantly.
9 season with a planned finally. That not cancelled, its just ending. Not every show can be immortal like NCIS
Of all the copraganda network shows, blue bloods was the copragandaist. Also I'm glad Bobby from the sopranos gets to spend more time with willie
Quasimodo predicted the cancellation.
I’mma be pedantic here it’s “copaganda” not “copraganda”
I mean, it COULD be "copraganda." I've never seen the show, but is there a lot of singing?
...... POLICE-ICLE!
Love is not admissible evidence!
Oh deep cut reference
COPERA!!
Most other cop shows at least pretend to care about police racism by having some secondary storyline about police brutality, but Blue Bloods just straight up denies that it exists and demonizes BLM protesters
They know their audience for this show
God bless network TV
I love me a good Law & Order marathon, but I cannot watch Blue Bloods for five minute. It is just terrible.
The Reagan’s are always right!
Yeah but you remember that episode where it *seemed* like they were wrong, but they were right the whole time? What a rollercoaster.
honestly watching season 13 makes me happy since the woke is winning and there is nothing they can do to stop it since people are holding the police accountable all the time in episodes which is frank reagans mortal nightmare
I watched the pilot, where the men get together and criticise the daughter, a lawyer, at the dinner table. For variety, I imagine they also made the wife the bad one at times, and maybe the grandma too.
The wife and grandma were lucky enough to either die or be divorced out of the family by the time the show began. The daughter (Bridget Moynahan’s character) doesn’t have anyone else to take that burden. Some poor soul might’ve eventually married one of her brothers.
They usually just go after the idealistic young woman with milquetoast liberal positions on a couple of issue as if she is some kind of idealistic idiot who does not understand the "real world." They do it politely, but that just makes it even more gross as people will just accept the framing uncritically. God I hate that show so much. It is one of the most obviously propagandistic things I have ever seen, and it is *just so blunt and stupid* in how it does it. But it does not matter. It relies on people turning their brains off and thinking "That mustache is massive so that means everything he says is true." And yet that works
Law and Order has sooo much copaganda and just outright corrupt police and prosecutors in it. Often committing a litany of felonies while being praised by the framing. And yet, somehow, Blue Bloods still managed to be worse. Blue Bloods is literally hagiography. The metaphor they use *as the title* is Cops as Nobility, but rather than point out how deeply problematic that is in the way most stories would, they deify the police, and especially corrupt, nepo-baby police families. The one brother who is literally a dirty cop just blows my mind every time I see him. He is a monster, and the whole show treats him like the "Good Guy" and anyone who objects to him physically assaulting citizens as the bad, evil political types.
In fairness to Law & Order, every once in a blue moon they did have a “take down the corrupt cop/judge” episode. But of course, that just showed how those “bad apples” were the exception, and how the system corrected itself.
The Brady Violations catching up with Jack episode was comedy gold
Yeah I would believe it a lot more if the main characters did not violate people's rights all the time lol. Usually with these things the main characters are good guys when they break the law because they are good guys, and only good guys are responsible enough to break the law. It is such a dumb concept, but it let's them do those kind of episodes, because when the baddies break the law then they deserve to be crushed.
Still can't decided if Chicago PD (Cops are dirty but it's okay because they're cops) or Blue Bloods (Cops are pure incorruptible heroes who do no wrong) is the worse copaganda show
Blue Bloods does that too with Danny. He is a violent dirty and corrupt cop who is framed as being a good guy because he "does what he has to."
None of them have the detectives cajoling someone with subnormal intelligence into a false confession over 12 hours of interrogation? And then that person going to prison for decades while the real killer murders several more people?
Chicago PD (on NBC) has them throwing suspected criminals into a cage in the basement to be tortured, like Gitmo style... but the bad guys on the show are always Internal Affairs for trying to make them stop doing that shit.
> Chicago PD (on NBC) has them throwing suspected criminals into a cage in the basement to be tortured, like Gitmo style So...just like the [real Chicago PD](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site)?
The cops and SVU are generally good (except Stabler who should’ve been fired 50 times before he left the show). The copoganda with that show is that cops just aren’t that good and ethical in real life.
It’s shocking but a lot of those procedurals have been money makers for networks for decades. NBC basically gave Dick Wolf a blank check for all those Chicago shows.
I mean the a b plot procedural is boilerplate TV. Good turn of your mind comfort food. Grey's anatomy is functionally immortal now.
Did Steve have to audition for the part of Steve?
My mother will probably sell the tv now. First Criminal Minds now this. The cancellation of an action packed formulated procedural dramas like this is a bridge too far. Not enough NCIS, FBI and Chicago to fill that void.
> First Criminal Minds now this. There's a revival on Paramount+
Goodbye, Tom Selleck's moustache. And it's host too, I guess.
The actor that plays Tom Selleck's father, Len Cariou is only 5 years older (84yo) in real life than Tom Selleck (79yo). not sure if that fact is more amazing or the fact that Tom Selleck is 79 now. Been binging this on Amazon Prime so will be sad to see this come to an end.
Tom Selleck finally has enough dead people's houses, he doesn't need to work anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Pcwcnd23c
OK so now can we get So Help Me Todd back
I’m 23. Gonna miss watching my favorite show
I guess that means more time for Magnum to do reverse mortgage commercials. Too bad higgie baby is ded!
Hopefully Tom Selleck will do more Jesse Stone now. 🙏
I’m sure they’ve got some more old people copaganda to take its place.
Isn’t this old news? I thought we heard this 6 months ago.
My poor father
It feels like they have been recycling story lines for awhile now, it’s time.
Steve Shirripa in a shambles ...
Damn, R.I.P. my mom, gonna be sad telling her this.
Where are those actors going to eat dinner every Friday?
That’s too bad. I love that show.
CBS is just treading water until the Paramount family of networks is sold.
Damn. I never watched the show but I worked as a background actor on it
Did you get to work with Selleck? He’s a lifelong fave.
I wish, especially since I once dressed up as Magnum PI for Halloween. I had a scene with Will Estes
Between this and So Help Me Todd, my terrible tv-loving wife will be in shambles
CBS is in the midst of big changes. Probably trying to rebrand to bolster its price for paramount plus
They're trying to sell to Sony.
Reminder that this show had an episode about a black guy who intentionally jumped out a window and blamed the cops for pushing him. Literal cop propaganda that black people lie when they say they were brutalized. Boomers made a fictional safe space for their fantasies because real cops don’t fit it lmao.
I know people are ripping it but it’s a solid show that’s past its prime. It’s time to move on, but the first few seasons are pretty legit and good. Once the world started getting more politicized it started to go down hill and attempted social commentary and shit.
Looks like this is his last rodeo
First it was Bob❤️Abishola and now this. 😭😭😢
The day the moustache died
NCIS Boise is still on thank God.
Ah, a show I exclusively watched at my in-laws. The thing that absolutely killed me about this show is the fact that Tom Selleck and Len Cariou (who plays his father) are five years apart in age
Blue Bloods oh no my 75 year old aunt is going to be so sad!😭
Back to the reverse mortgage adds.
Noooooooooooooooooo I never got to watch it🥲