Posted on 04/22/2019 7:47:24 AM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
As I've said many times I watch TV. And so when I saw the clip about CBS's new program, The Red Line, I needed to know its story line. In the descriptions there is "when hiz husband was shot by a cop". I stopped reading. Not my cup of tea.
Certainly a red line for me.
I don’t watch any new shows. My wife still likes NCIS and NCIS: LA. The rest of our TV watching is reruns or TCM, or sports or Hallmark (for her). I am not interested in the latest PC smorgasbords the networks come up with.
They’ve been pimping that crap for some time. It’s a SJW/leftist soapy orgy with all the victim groups: Black & White male Sodomite husband & husband, trendy adopted Black daughter, Black gay husband doctor looks like he’s robbing convenience store dressed in Saint Skittles (He has risen !) gear, White cop shoots Black gay doctor husband. Black female aspiring Communist wants to run for office to stop the po-po from shooting all Chi-Town’s black folk and is ready with all the stats about how it’s all racist. White Sodomite husband widder cries about how he doesn’t know what it’s like to be a Black man, nevermind he buggers one.
Etc, etc. I gleaned all that crap from the commercials. It’s all so trendy and original, y’know ? Probably shittons of Trump & Christian bashing, too.
I wonder if these networks have any idea how much money they would make if they abandoned the Trump and Christian bashing agenda and produced news that simply reported, and shows that were funny and gritty without being perverted or PC. I believe that the first major broadcast network that figured this out would have very high ratings and profits.
I watch TCM more than anything else. Friends and family are constantly asking if I've seen such-and-such on Amazon or Netflix. Nope.
There are some new shows that I’ve recorded but not yet watched. The Code is one although I don’t care for court room drama. Whiskey Cavalier has been somewhat entertaining. Gone and The Enemy Within not yet watched.
There are several really good shows. Blue Bloods, Chicago PD, The Blacklist, Blindspot, Chicago Fire, S.W.A.T... Although I record SWAT to watch after the season is over.
And of course the NCIS series, The Rookie and a couple of others. Like I said I watch TV.
I am about ready to quit SWAT [Social Working At Ten (o’clock)].
The Code is okay, not great, sort of pat story lines.
Whiskey Cavalier is surprisingly entertaining.
The Enemy Within is interesting (so far). I am waiting to see where it goes. Ratings are low, so it may not get a 2nd season.
Just the previews turned me off The Red Line.
Not happy to hear about SWAT. Last season it didn’t seem to focus too much on social issues. If it goes in that direction I’ll erase ‘em. :<(((
My mom saw a commercial, thought it looked it good, it’s set in Chicago. The Red line is a train.
Then I looked it up and told her what it was about. A cop shoots a “poor innocent Black guy” and Noah Wylie plays the dead guy’s “husband”. Barf and hard pass.
Will not even go to the effort of adding this on my list to not watch—
To be fair, speaking as someone who has watched both seasons for SWAT, it’s actually pretty even handed with the social elements, considering Deacon makes it pretty clear that he doesn’t exactly approve of Chris’s lifestyle choices, and Chris even acknowledged his point about how it would only result in heartache. Heck, even the infamous gay pride episode was surprisingly even-handed in giving valid points to both sides of the aisle (as both the chief of police and Deacon made it pretty clear they didn’t approve of the lifestyle), and Chris made it very clear that the gay guy who held up an anti-gay radio station was ultimately in the wrong for his actions. That’s still better than Supergirl or, for that matter, The Red Line, which made absolutely NO attempt whatsoever at having any contrarian views against homosexuality being depicted in an even remotely positive light, or even commented on at all. Pretty much everyone in the show in Season 2 didn’t seem to be upset at, say, Alex becoming a lesbian for no real reason, not even her parents, who I’d expect to at least be taken aback at their only biological daughter pretty much denying them any chance at grandchildren, and if anything were overjoyed at her doing so (probably the closest anyone gave to non-100% acceptance was Mon-El, and even he was more baffled at it not being polyamory than truly condemning her coming out).
Trust me when I say this, I’ve seen far worse instances in other shows of SocJus pandering than in SWAT’s second season. For example, Supergirl in Season 2, heck, Supergirl Season 1 even (and that was the better season overall). Am I happy with the few elements that slip in, absolutely not (I wasn’t particularly fond of the racial profiling condemnation bit, and Chris’s bisexual/bigamous focus was one of the low points of the season if you ask me), but I at least know enough about current TV to realize the SocJus elements in SWAT are minor compared to various other shows.
Besides, even Season 2 still had a condemnation of radical Communist student groups (one of the recurring villains was a terror group that in its debut tried to reenact the Syrian Liberation Army from the 1960s, and in its later appearance had a pyrrhic victory where it is implied that SWAT only ended up furthering that group’s agenda by arresting them by causing a media circus where they demand a reduction of Capitalism), so the show’s at least anti-Communist, which is better than most shows (as one user pointed out here, the other female main character in The Red Line was a communist agitator in all but name, and treated largely positively).
As far as the topic at hand, when seeing the previews, I wasn’t too sure about the show, especially when, 1., the whole gay angle wasn’t even tried to be hidden, and 2., one of the trailers made it sound as though Chicago was the most segregated city in the world and that was a reason to riot (When hearing that, I was thinking “What’s this, the 1960s or 1950s?” How on earth does it have Jim Crow laws still in play? Now, if they willingly segregated, that’s one thing, and I can understand that bit, but the way the trailer depicted it, they made it sound as though Chicago was the modern day Jim Crow of cities). A side note, but watching the ending of Max Keeble’s Big Move is going to be a LOT harder to watch thanks largely to the crap Officer Paul Evans had to put up with, especially when unlike Troy McGinty, Officer Evans didn’t even deserve having a mob go against him since his shooting that doctor was an accident. I felt more sympathetic to him than the others, and he’s technically the antagonist. The reason I point this out is because Noel Fisher played both characters.
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