I was looking for a new TV show to watch on prime and started Colony, and half way through the first episode it is revealed it is a cop show. It looks like there is an anti cop element to it, but I am tired of cop shows at all.

I started to watch Blindspot a while back, but that was an FBI show.

While scrolling Hulu the other day I saw a show with Sweet Dee from Always Sunny… Yup another cop show.

Any good, not cop, shows on Prime?

  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I was recently taken aback by just how many cop shows there are, particularly detective shows. Surely if you’ve seen about 3 then you’ve seen them all.

    When i see a lot of media in just one genre it tends to feel like they’ve just applied a new coat of paint to the same formula - never truer than cop shows, where it’s like:

    • What if the detective is a psychic?
    • What if the detective is pretending to be psychic?
    • What if the detective is a con artist?
    • What if the detective is a psychic con artist?
    • What if the detective is a pretending-to-be-psychic con artist?
    • What if sherlock holmes had savant syndrome?
    • What if Sherlock holmes was married to an asian lady?
    • What if the detective is a cute single mom super genius?

    Not to mention a lot of supernatural shows (e.g buffy) end up feeling like cop shows.

    • nocturne@slrpnk.netOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      I am not 100% against cop shows, some are great. The X-Files, Orphan Black (which I think was more a show that had some cops in it), Slow Horses. But I am totally full on my cop quota right now.

    • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      Cop shows are actually fun to watch, though, whereas medical procedurals are really dull. Hospitals just put me to sleep a little bit. Badum tsh. Lawyer stuff is swell but i prefer them in movies to shows.