I have been streaming a lot of foreign cop shows; British, French, Australian, New Zealand, Scandinavian.
“I have been streaming a lot of foreign cop shows”
There’s a lot of good stuff there, though the British shows are also getting woke. Wokeness is also starting to creep into the Scandinavian cop shows.
Even without the wokeness, American TV would struggle to find unexplored territory to exploit, so rather than produce “Hawaii 5-0” under another title, they just reboot the show with the original title and have a guaranteed audience. “Starsky & Hutch” and “Miami Vice” remakes are also rumored to be in the works.
This is a golden opportunity for foreign film studios to make inroads and chip away at Hollywood dominance.
One of the best shows I watched recently was "Tehran" on AppleTV, an Israeli production. No wokeness. Russia and China also have robust film industries with a great deal of talent.
Americans don't like reading subtitles? No problem. Emerging AI technology will allow seamless dubbing into English in ways that are an order of magnitude more convincing than the horrible dubbing of those old Godzilla films.
Let Hollywood keep churning out garbage. Eventually someone else will step in and give us quality entertainment.