The Golden Age of US Cop Shows
Garamczy Antal wrote:
No, soaps don't have happy endings. Not over here, anyway.
Garamczy Antal wrote:
Why at Last! wrote:
I don't understand what you mean by soap-y, exactly. Happy endings, you mean?
I agree that the The Wire isn't a cop show. And yet it's ruined cop shows for me. I can't watch them any more, with their neat little puzzles and neat little resolutions. Even Homicide, which went in for less of that, is kind of soap-y, by all accounts because of what the studio demanded.
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