What would you say is the themes that characterize American media?https://twitter.com/TragicallyKip/status/1297770414911950849 …
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Blindspot: "An amnesiac naked woman wakes up stuffed inside a suitcase in the middle of Times Square She must search for clues to her identity based on flashes of disconnected memory and an intricate set of coded messages tattooed on her body She fights crime"
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They're all like this It's partly a structural requirement of American TV series being so long and having so much time to fill -- "solving crimes" is the catchall for "random sidequests" But it's telling that it's almost *always* specifically being a cop and busting criminals
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continuum: she's a time-traveling fascist from the future hunting a group of time-traveling antifasctist revolutionaries. she fights crime!
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Once a cop always a cop Or, er, will be a cop and therefore is a cop now
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Person of Interest ultimately subverted that, though. As soon as the procedural elements were in place they went right off the rails into a deep exploration of what it means to have created artificial life and the nuances of AI ethics.
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