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@SkepticalLeftist And *all* police procedurals are basically copaganda.

Except #Columbo*.

All those cop shows people love so much are there not to entertain, but to keep the populace firmly in the belief that all cops are heroes, catching criminals. Not working for them.

*Working class bloke in an old car habitually out thought smug, upper class criminals and sent them down. No shooting black teenagers.

"…you’re almost likable in a shabby sort of way. Maybe it’s the way you come slouching in here with your shopworn bag of tricks… the humility, the seeming absentmindedness, the homey anecdotes about the family… fumbling and stumbling along. But it’s always the jugular that he’s after. And I imagine that, more often than not, he’s successful." nybooks.com/online/2024/08/25/ #justonemorething

The New York Review of Books‘An Ass-Backward Sherlock Holmes’ | J. W. McCormackTelevision’s best jokes turn hierarchies upside-down. In some cases ghoulish beauty standards are treated as ordinary, like when Morticia Addams clips the

"oh, just one more thing..." --- Femme Columbo probably

Ok, stayed up late to finish this, and my plan was to just log into fedi to post this, but had a whole realisation about an article my mother sent me, but I still want to post this drawing cause it turned out quite well