Favorite Right-Wing TV Shows

xposts I've been vibing hard with Miami Vice on my first-ever watchthrough but, like...it gets to a point where I don't know if they even carry handcuffs anymore. By halfway through season two, they just wantonly murder pretty much every perp they encounter. There was that one episode where Gina got kinda half-assedly called to the carpet for shooting someone down but it seems to be otherwise accepted as an unambiguously heroic act.

I dunno, in terms of my own consumption, I view decent cop shows basically the same way I do horror movies. I'm pretty opposed to IRL people being killed with finger-knives, as well.

By halfway through season two, they just wantonly murder pretty much every perp they encounter.

The remake of Hawaii Five-O was insane in this regard. Every episode, they'd kill not just the primary villain, but five or six people, it seemed. There were multiple episodes where the cops were shooting at moving vehicles in traffic.

re: X-Files right-wing drift, Law & Order is just bizarre in retrospect. I remember catching episodes where the Meloni character rails against anti-vaxxers and puts himself in solitary confinement as some weird personal investigative journalism project and the experience convinces him to become a prison abolitionist. Oh, yeah, Ice-T and Richard Belzer are cops, and they're partners?! What leftist freak fantasy is this?

Oh and Munch appearing both mean X-Files and Law & Order (and the Wire) are in the same universe?

re: the OC, it's weird (and somewhat satisfying) that Gilmore Girls is now considered the more problematic of the two, and the main OC actor turned into an anti-crypto activist.

When I rewatched the X-Files last time there were more moments of "oh yeah Mulder is definitely 100% cop" than I remembered. He believes the government has been infiltrated by alien collaborators but he would also be on board with locking up protesters who damage property.