I remember reading somewhere once that “long” faces convey emotion more easily, from a visual standpoint, and this is even more exaggerated with dramatic lighting to enhance/lengthen shadows.

and this is one of the reasons why so many actors and models have these features compared to the regular population.

of course, it’s feeding back now upon us such that people who uncritically consume media thing these are representative facial features and associate them with biological fitness/attraction.

Shoutout to the only pro-defence lawyer show, Lincoln Lawyer

in rehab my roommate defaulted to FBI or to country music television and FBI was marginally preferable but it is dumb as shit and completely forgettable, like I couldn’t even begin to cobble together any of the plots, characters, or setting from memory if i had a gun to my head forgettable

Blue Bloods exists. It’s a copaganda show about the Reagan cop family, doing cop things with such care and honor and these damn browns with their phone cameras filming police brutality against the violent offender shaking my smdh

fuck but it’s bad

We need high quality copaganda like the wire to come back

At least its fun to watch

These aren’t real but I’ve definitely seen all of them

John Krasinski went and hung out with the CIA to help him with the role, and then glowered about them in interviews. They definitely had input.

There is definitely a change in propaganda. I’m old and I think over the decades it’s gotten to be absurdly blatant. Now lots of American tv series don’t even pretend to care about the national sovereignty of other nations. It’s just a given the CIA, etc can spy on anybody, kidnap anybody, kill anybody - anywhere. America is entitled to do it.

Police state fiction will get weird under Trump. I won’t be surprised if somebody like Taylor Sheridan has a series where the highly telegenic lead character in a real or pretend police state org says “We gotta protect the US against foreign enemies and domestic enemies too…” And the main plotline is ridiculous and it involves an implausible group of enemies teaming up against America. The group will be some combination of China, “the cartels”, Antifa, and American pols who aren’t described directly as democrats but clearly are. The lead character will say the pols are “fighting against the president and seeking to overturn what’s right.”

My boomer mom loves spy shit and unironically thinks it’s what the CIA and FBI are like. They’re totally the good guys and totally aren’t the source of heroin and cocaine in the US and totally don’t overthrow democracies around the world who get in the way of American business interests.

John Madden

LGBTQIA

Spin-off

NCIS DC: FBI CIA NSA AEIOU SVU