The show that comes to mind for me is Brooklyn 99; specifically during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. Apparently, they scrapped four completed?wprov=sfti1#Production) episodes in light of the George Floyd protests.
The show always tried to be progressive, which I can appreciate. But at the end of the day it did fall under the category of copaganda. I wonder how much the BLM protests influenced the creator's decision to end the show since it ended soon after in 2021.
I feel like B99 was among the least copaganda of cop shows. They don't do the "breaking the law to catch bad guys" thing and is usually very aware of laws regarding policing.
Shame they were affected by the wider police controversies though.
Which wouldn’t matter because, as I said earlier, parody isn’t bankruptcy. You can’t just declare it. A trope played straight isn’t subverting the trope. It’s just the trope. Yelling that it’s sarcasm doesn’t change the fact they just played it straight.
Terry and Jake and Amy and Rosa doing wedding prep with Terry and Jake loving it whilst Amy and Rosa chases down a criminal in her wedding dress is subverting a trope.
Jake arresting a dude because of a joke and not letting up until he finds evidence is just playing it straight.
Jake bragging about things to try and trick a suspect into incriminating himself only to screw himself over until he turns things around isn’t subverting a trope.
Terry saying “give me five minutes with him. I’ll get the truth out of him” and then the scene cutting to him crying and the suspect giving him the evidence he needs because he wants Terry to be there for the birth of his child IS subverting a trope. It goes from classic police brutality to “Terry is a sweet person who loves his wife and his love makes people want to help him.”
Jake arming himself and going rogue to help Rosa is a trope. Jake realizing that staying at the precinct and talking to his coworkers and helping them cope through an ungodly stressful situation is a subversion.
Jake wasnt bragging about being able to lie, he brought it up as strategy to which Captain Holt said it was a bad idea. Jake does it out of desperation and it immediately backfires showing that it was never the right option.
Jake admits to fucking that up and letting emotions get the better of him and he is then scolded by Captain Holt.
Jake did not start the series with a bet to fuck Amy. It was bet about more arrests. When Jake won, he took Amy on a purposefully terrible date. There was never any sex involved and he wasn’t gonna rape her to end the night.
I agree, they should’ve done better about that
Rosa talked a tough game and her character grew over the show. When exactly did she actually commit police brutality?
Yes he was. He said he used it as permission to brag about stuff all the time. He even brags that he uses that permission all the time before he goes in there. And he isn’t told not to lie because it’s wrong or that he may be pressuring an innocent man into a confession but that he may mess up an investigation.
People were angry he ruined their weekend. Not that he arrested someone innocent. Oh no. He arrested someone over a joke but he got scolded so that’s ok? He’s a grown ass man. Why should he need to be scolded.
The bet was that if he won he would take amy out on a date. A date he said would end in sex. It’s literally in the first episode.
The fact that she was joking about police brutality means she considered police abuse funny, does it not?
I have seen all of the show except for the last season.
That doesn’t change the fact that the series was introduced with the bet that he confirmed would end in sex. It’s not even ten minutes into the first episode.
So? Most of these are sitcom shenanigans or jokes, not actually glorifying cops.
And the 48 hours thing proves my point: Jake fucked up and had to deal with its consequence. They certainly didn't try to argue keeping them any longer.
And why were they angry? Because they have to obey the law and release the suspect if evidence is not found, as well as being at risk of a wrongful arrest lawsuit. The 48 hour thing is a law problem more than a cop problem.
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u/sillypotatoes564 18h ago
The show that comes to mind for me is Brooklyn 99; specifically during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. Apparently, they scrapped four completed?wprov=sfti1#Production) episodes in light of the George Floyd protests.
The show always tried to be progressive, which I can appreciate. But at the end of the day it did fall under the category of copaganda. I wonder how much the BLM protests influenced the creator's decision to end the show since it ended soon after in 2021.