Well, on Blue Bloods the cop just did a head shot with a pistol from about 100 feet away as a perp held a woman hostage as a human shield. In real life, probably a miss or go into the head or body of the hostage before it hits the suspect.
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Sounds like The A-Team without the breezy attitude. >>> >>> Shows like NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life on the Street redefined what a >> cop drama can be (heck, in the 1980s, "Sledge Hammer" did a masterful job >> as satire of the genre). The new SWAT felt like the producers want to >> ignore 3 decades of dramatic evolution, and bring the genre back to the >> days of car chases and explosions and freeze-framed images of Erik Estrada >> during the closing credits. >> > > In David Simon's book Homicide: A Year in the Killing Streets, he talks > about the tropes of cop shows and the difficulty real police and > prosecutors have when the public has internalized those tropes. Homicide > and NYPD Blue did a good job of showing police work and challenging the > tropes (though NYPD Blue backslid in later seasons). One thing from Simon > that I remember was that if a witness changes their story they immediately > become a suspect. I remember watching the first or second episode of CSI > and a witness changed her story. The cop asked why and she said that she > was afraid to tell the truth and they moved on. That's when I knew the era > was over and TV cops were going back to what they had been and that's why I > stopped watching cop shows. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
