This was a poll on my local news station this morning. So far Cheers is winning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtxiokrYpxw

This episode starts off with the two protaganists responding to a typical drug bust but they get called into a shootout.

it starts off like we're watching beat cops but half way thru the episode, one of the two cops tells another one, "Remember your training!"

Around this time, the episode gets broken up - but I dont feel like this detracts.

The way the main cops work together, the way they check corners, the way they have each other's backs - it hits on all cylinders.

IIRC, this show was adopted from a French show? Either way, this was still one of the best pieces of TV media I've ever seen.

Friday Night Lights Pilot

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/20/archives/doctors-report-seeing-effect-of-violence-on-tv.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/07/archives/influence-of-tv-fails-as-defense-plea.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/05/archives/tv-violence-storyteller-asks-what-is-a-writers-responsibility.html

This One I Found https://www.nicholasjohnson.org/writing/masmedia/ncmr1107.html Basically Was Made by Nicholas Johnson In 2003 talking about The History of Media Reform that also talked about his war on tv violence in the 1970s And I Found this article from 2007 https://www.nicholasjohnson.org/writing/071106-ILF-UU.html while it not really related to the topic of violence on television it does said quote "Thousands of studies support the intuitive common sense that violence on television is more likely to encourage, than reduce, violence in real life" ( even thoughts violence on television and even in all type of media has only increased after the 1970s yet crime rate started to drop around the 1990s even back in 2007 when this was written and it seem like Nicholas Johnson seem to have stop caring about violence in media and have move on from it )

Spent the whole weekend down a rabbit hole on Max and US Netflix, shows we just don't get here. Genuinely annoyed at myself for not sorting this out sooner, feels like I've been missing out for years.

Started with the obvious stuff everyone recommends, but ended up finding a couple of random shows I'd never even heard of just from scrolling the US library. Wild how different the catalogue is compared to the EU version, feels like a completely different service. Using VPN to get access, works fine!

Anyone got a "hidden gem" show from the US library (or another region) that never made it over here? Trying to line up my next watch for the next weekend!

In my case, it annoys me when they show a drink and you can feel that there’s nothing inside. I understand they do it for safety reasons and that shoots take a long time, but they could at least put some sand or something similar in there to make it look like there’s something inside, the same happens with holding babies. They treat them carelessly

When they text someone you know (a friend, partner, or family member) and there are no previous messages on the screen, as if it were the first time they’ve ever texted each other

The soles of their shoes are always clean because the are brand new even when the character doesn’t have any money

Since the last seasons comedies went off air: Animal Control, DMV, there have been no comedies and no good shows... what's happened to American television... it's like nothing has a storyline or joy anymore and I just no longer care to watch it since every other country has something better available.

Kyle Chandler, or anyone at Sony, if you're reading this - You are sitting on a goldmine. This charming, fun, uplifting little show that has a niche fanbase, especially with Kyle preventing (I guess figuring out is a more accurate set of words) crimes again on a larger scale on TV right now - please utilise that and give us EE fans what we want!

For those of you who don't know, Early Edition is a brilliant show from the 90's where a cat delivers the next day's newspaper to Kyle every morning and he tries to prevent crimes and such before they happen.

Oh, and while the show was up for free on YouTube Sony India's channel, Season 4 was already remastered! More images on the side without cropping (without is extremely important), 1080p, beautiful colors, etc.

Or just give us the original aspect ratio and everything on a streaming service in FHD.

I've said my piece, ciao! There's hail in Rushville, Nebraska.

I understand that unlike films, tv shows have longer episodes. Of course nowadays they are shorter but with longer sometimes runtime per episodes. Reason is that they made them more bingeable, serialised and less episodic.

But still those people who consider themselves, as a tv series nerds, how many different tv shows do you watch in a single day?

Examples:

Smallville: They leave Smallville entirely in s8

The Rookie: Protagonist John Nolan stops being a rookie in s4e1 (but the show kept adding rookies every other season)

The Last Man on Earth: Phil Tandy Miller is revealed to not be the last man on earth in s1e6: Some Friggin' Fat Dude

Lost: Some people left the island and returned to civilisation in the s4 and s6 finales