Award shows hardly seem like the most important front in the battle to protect Black lives from police brutality, but the media plays a big part in setting the terms of our cultural debate, and while not everyone agrees on whether we should defund or abolish the police, we may be at a point where we no longer assume that police are the heroes of our stories. So will that affect the Emmys, where the TV industry decides which stories it values?
Police stories have inherent dramatic tension: murders, mysteries, good guys tracking down bad guys. So it’s no wonder that they’ve been all over the Emmys too, from “Dragnet” in the 1950s to “Police Story” in the 1970s, “Hill Street Blues” and “Cagney and Lacey” in the 1980s, and “NYPD Blue” and “Law and Order” in the 1990s. All those shows won Best Drama Series, and though...
Police stories have inherent dramatic tension: murders, mysteries, good guys tracking down bad guys. So it’s no wonder that they’ve been all over the Emmys too, from “Dragnet” in the 1950s to “Police Story” in the 1970s, “Hill Street Blues” and “Cagney and Lacey” in the 1980s, and “NYPD Blue” and “Law and Order” in the 1990s. All those shows won Best Drama Series, and though...
- 6/15/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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