As protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd continue around the country, THR's Daniel Fienberg and Inkoo Kang reflect on the small screen's struggle to depict police violence and community responses.
for realistically portraying how even the specter of police violence can be devastating for characters we’ve gotten to know well. Part of the insidious nature of police violence that’s been made clearer and clearer by the police killings captured on viral videos is that the violence can happen at any time, at an event as ostensibly mundane as a traffic stop.
Unfortunately, I don’t see much changing after these protests when it comes to the portrayal of police in meat-and-potato crime procedurals, in which trust in and sympathy for law enforcement is baked into the formula. We’ll have to wait and see if the trope of roughing up suspects and even witnesses to add grit to cops’ characterizations in police-centric prestige shows gets reconsidered. That would be a reflection of whether we take police brutality any more seriously now.
The problem is that broadcast TV does even worse when it comes to offering alternatives. Take CBS’ truly atrociousand its inane ideas about crowdsourcing justice. In fact, take it far, far away from me. Or look at Fox’s, which was almost the same show, only less tainted by Jeremy Piven. Or don’t look at it. Nobody did when it came out.
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