It's so strange to live in a universe where the most accurate depiction of the CIA in fiction is in "Archer".
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Great. More copaganda.
I've seen a lot of the modern Copaganda and holy shit is it awful. Never heard of this one but just seeing the looks on these dumb people's faces tells me enough. Maybe someone who's seeing newer shit can tell me, but as far as I'm concerned the dumbest one of them all is still criminal minds.
Shoutout to the only pro-defence lawyer show, Lincoln Lawyer
Blue Bloods exists. It's a copaganda show about the Reagan cop family, doing cop things with such care and honor and these damn browns with their phone cameras filming police brutality against the violent offender shaking my smdh
fuck but it's bad
We need high quality copaganda like the wire to come back
At least its fun to watch
I've always heard the wire put up as "prestige television", is it worth watching if you can't stomach most cop characters?
None of the cops in it are portrayed as morally good, at most competent but corrupt. The sympathetic characters are the gang members and their victims. It takes the side of drugs in the war on drugs.
edit: Also it's definitely worth the watch in terms of prestige dramas. It's right below The Leftovers and on par with The Sopranos for me. Incredibly good writing and character development.
Line of duty was enjoyable to watch as well
in rehab my roommate defaulted to FBI or to country music television and FBI was marginally preferable but it is dumb as shit and completely forgettable, like I couldn't even begin to cobble together any of the plots, characters, or setting from memory if i had a gun to my head forgettable
So glad we don't have propaganda here, unlike those brainwashed Chinese people
This is like a dumber and less charming version of those 90s anime where you had some elite fighting unit that was totally the military but they called it 'the police' because Japan can't have a military after WW2.
ASSASSIN ELITE CYBORG-GIRL TANK COPS
SWAT-P: SUPER WEAPON ATOMIC TEEN POLICE
ROBO-MECHA BOUNTY DEPUTIES
These aren't real but I've definitely seen all of them
Yeah, trashy 80s OVAs are great!
You know the one with the heavy lesbian overtones? Well we're watching it again on Hextube next week
okay im in
Idk if you're talking about Dirty Pair (never actually watched it) but it has an absolute banger of an OP
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
why are so many of their heads so stretched and long?
I remember reading somewhere once that "long" faces convey emotion more easily, from a visual standpoint, and this is even more exaggerated with dramatic lighting to enhance/lengthen shadows.
and this is one of the reasons why so many actors and models have these features compared to the regular population.
of course, it's feeding back now upon us such that people who uncritically consume media thing these are representative facial features and associate them with biological fitness/attraction.
oh shit and next our future feature length AI slop will just consist of the most nightmarishly stretched heads on amorphous torsos you can imagine.
Oh man, I can't wait for the inevitable crossover movie where all of our favorite cops come together to foil generic arab terrorist group #524's evil plot to murder every police officer in America. Just imagine, the rookie NCIS agent finally learns that waiting for a warrant is how the terrorists win just in time to figure out that China was the real bad guy behind the terrorism all along!
This feels like a new low. Usually they dance around portraying the CIA in TV shows by calling the protagonist "ex-CIA" or using a fake agency or something else. I guess that Jack Ryan show was basically about the CIA right?
There is definitely a change in propaganda. I'm old and I think over the decades it's gotten to be absurdly blatant. Now lots of American tv series don't even pretend to care about the national sovereignty of other nations. It's just a given the CIA, etc can spy on anybody, kidnap anybody, kill anybody - anywhere. America is entitled to do it.
Police state fiction will get weird under Trump. I won't be surprised if somebody like Taylor Sheridan has a series where the highly telegenic lead character in a real or pretend police state org says "We gotta protect the US against foreign enemies and domestic enemies too..." And the main plotline is ridiculous and it involves an implausible group of enemies teaming up against America. The group will be some combination of China, "the cartels", Antifa, and American pols who aren't described directly as democrats but clearly are. The lead character will say the pols are "fighting against the president and seeking to overturn what's right."
Over how many decades though? 70-80's propaganda was obscene.
John Krasinski went and hung out with the CIA to help him with the role, and then glowered about them in interviews. They definitely had input.
glowered about them in interviews
'glowered' means to stare angrily btw, I think you're thinking of 'glowing' which is a positive descriptor
Scottish etymology
what a trip
These shows are so incredibly dumb. Copaganda isn't what it used to be but boomers will still eat it up
My boomer mom loves spy shit and unironically thinks it's what the CIA and FBI are like. They're totally the good guys and totally aren't the source of heroin and cocaine in the US and totally don't overthrow democracies around the world who get in the way of American business interests.
It's really absurd how they've managed to curate such an image. They don't do things for the good of the people. They don't even do awesome things. I remember when I was a kid I really liked watching shows about The Marines and the SAS and all their daring tales - that is of course also propaganda but it's framed in terms of a classic and irresistible patriotic myth. It's man to man. It's primal. It's tense. It's guys who look like they could be your cool uncle, charismatically telling tall tales about how they escaped an an impossible situation (usually with superior firepower, comms, and training, but they tend to leave that bit out)
The CIA? Just plotting. Getting other guys to do the dirty work. Killing people who run newspapers and unions. Writing propaganda. Blah blah blah - however the fuck did the MI5 and CIA get this reputation for being suave underground resistance fighters?
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Like one of those fake shows from GTA.
True "diversity hire" is hiring actors/actress to portray people working law enforcement as good, stable, hard working, hinged people
Police Cops
Military-intelligence community multiverse, oh fuck yeah! Can't wait for FBI: Space Force
FBI: DOGE
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Fentral Bureau of Intelligencestigation
NTSF:SD:SUV::
The only good police procedural ever made.
This is Super Troopers erasure.
Someone called this a few days back.
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