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To: driftless2
Exactly. I, too, like nighttime TV, but some time ago I posted a review of a half-dozen of these shows. It bears repeating:

"Criminal Minds": FBI team (all unmarried---leader just lost his wife) features two women agents (both carry guns and break down doors) and a black, as well as three white males.

"The Shield": A successful multi-year run just ended a couple of months ago, but it featured a black woman as Captain, whose superior was a black male and a Hispanic city councilman; her predecessor was Glenn Close, and her predecessor was the Hispanic councilman.

"CSI": Gil Grissom (William Peterson) has departed---he was the head. But the number two (now head) is Katharine Willows (Marg Hilgenberger) and there was a black CSI (now deceased in the show) and two females. Previously, there was a female detective regular.

"Numbers": The FBI team features two women, two white males, and one black.

"House": The boss of the hospital is a woman; House always has one woman on his team of brilliant surgeons, along with one minority (this season, an Indian played by Kal Penn---probably not so unlikely). Omar Epps is the token black, and the previous team had a woman.

"Fringe": New FOX hit show features a woman (naturally) FBI agent who reports to a black male who heads the program. Two whites answer to the woman, along with a black female.

"The Unit": One of my favorites, this featured the Sergeant (former "president David Palmer"), who heads the Unit in action. He answers to a white colonel, but his team is comprised of two whites, a woman, a black, and a Hispanic.

"Without a Trace": Another FBI unit with two white males, one black female, and two Hispanics.

We can go on and on. Virtually every show ("Law and Order SVU") has several women who break down doors, and who seem to always be the "best shot" and when the guy gets beat up, always find a way to knock out the bad guy.

But now, the mandatory character in almost every one of these shows is a homosexual or Lesbian who has been victimized or who is "better" at his or her job than heterosexuals, despite the "prejudice."

24 posted on 01/29/2009 7:01:41 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: LS

To add to your list.

“Life” - homicide detectives: Main character is white male, his partner is latina and the boss is a womanizing white mail.

“Psych” - very observant guy selling himself as a psychic. His sidekick is a black dude. Police chief is a woman, a pair of detectives they work with is a strange white male and loveable white female.

“Mentalist” - another very observant guy specifically says he is not a psychic. Senior agent is a woman, and the unit consists of another woman, asian guy and another white male.


25 posted on 01/29/2009 12:10:23 PM PST by Tolik
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To: LS
“But now, the mandatory character in almost every one of these shows...”

Start counting “patriots”. In the long, slow but well made “Benjamin Button” movie the fiercely patriotic character on a civilian boat working for the USN was a Cherokee Indian “who had been an American for 500 years”. It struck me that It'd been a hell of a long time since I'd seen a patriotic white male in a film who wasn't a buffoon, straw man or just plain evil.

31 posted on 01/29/2009 7:13:01 PM PST by TalBlack
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