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OT: True Crime

Yeah old people are obsessed with crime/safety and they’re the only demo that still watches those old networks. Everyone else has cut the cord. Still, less crime shows there than I thought tbh
 
Yeah to me I see a love of procedurals, more so than just crime…..hospital shows, courtroom shows, fire departments, etc etc…

People love the comfort they get from drama’s that play out is a formulaic manner that doesn’t challenge them, while allowing them to do some light problem solving/guessing and then having a satisfying reveal & resolution that ties it all up in a nice bow……more so (imo) that tuning into those shows for the blood n guts of the murders that are the first 2 minutes of the show.

Even the true crime stuff….if it bleeds it leads, obviously applies, but I think it’s the mystery, coupled with the problem solving/investigation, and ideally some satisfying resolution formula that really attracts people.

….and now in the internet age where people can get together to continue sleuthing when there is no resolution, that’s arguably a preferred outcome for some.
 
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zeke said:
nah it's the actual argument - crime shows dominate TV in an amazing way. wasn't like that before.
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Shows about cops, firemen, lawyers and doctors have always been popular themes for many long-running TV shows. About the only genre that was huge when TV started that actually died out was the western. Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Rifleman, Have Gun Will Travel, Rawhide. All of those died and the genre was pretty much over by the early 70's.

Cop shows, from Dragnet to the Naked City to Adam-12 to the Mod Squad to the Rookies to Police Story to Police Woman to Hawaii Five-O, to Hill Street Blues to NYPD Blue to all the Law & Order franchises are just an unbroken string since Dumont had a network and Curtis Mathis was making TV's.

Ditto for laywer shows, from Perry Mason to LA Law to Matlock, and for medical shows from Dr. Kildare to to Marcus Welby MD to St. Elsewhere to ER to Grey's Anatomy to Chicago Med.

All these genres and I would argue especially crime/cop shows are the most robust genres in any medium. Crime shows are the Patrice Bergeron of television.
 
None of us argued it’s popularity (on the contrary we’ve all pointed out how it’s always been enormously popular).

not sure any of these articles demonstrate it being the cause behind the the fall of society tho, or believing everyone around them are psychopaths.

I think Fox News does more to influence a distrust of one’s community, than anything.
 
zeke said:
stop anti-zekeing.
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by now, most of us here are enjoying the benefits of herd immunity against getting zeked (though to this day, some of the FI population is still vulnerable)

in this particular case, we simply don't want you to suffer from self-zeking, a dangerous auto immune condition that arises when zeking candidates run below a certain threshold
 
They’re now investigating unsolved murders in South Carolina, Las Vegas, and Atlantic City where Heuermann spent time and may have commit further murders.

Feel pretty confident they’ll tie the remainder of the Gilgo Beach murders to him as well, obviously…

Guy built a vault in his basement, enclosed with a large steel door….had over 200 guns in it, and I’m guessing probably some trophies/evidence of further murders.
 
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