Surely 12 crappy plots...
...must be better than one good plot?
Nope.
That is how I completely see it. Talk about kitchen sink.
The gay love triangle.
The alcoholic.
An interracial couple.
Affairs and divorce.
Multiple immigrant issues.
Lesbian Lacey.
The cliched police supervisor.
The big bad business.
The overbearing evil stepmother.
The corrupt politician.
The haunting memory of a dead children.
Red herring.
Red herring.
Workplace romance.
Stalker.
Stalker.
Red herring.
A dead child.
Workplace romance.
The porn/sex trade angle.
The failed penal system.
The bed-wetter with MS.
The custody battle.
A little auto-erotic asphyxiation.
A mentally unstable cop (and she's the effing lead).
And don't forget "Overworked detective mom shows up late for the kid's school pageant"
shareThe interracial couple is a particularly annoying trope. Up there with the token Asian computer geek in supporting role (see Spooks.)
shareThis made me splutter!! In the UK, programme and advert makers are totally FIXATED with interracial couples. Almost without exception, if there's an ad for a bed, furniture, yogurts or candy. Make one black and one white
And yes, many, many scenarios in TV dramas, comedies - you name it. NO I don't have a problem with it, per se. What does annoy the hell out of me though, is how disproportionate it has become. It is all pervasive and totally out of sync with reality. Clearly prog and ad makers are terrified of having fingers pointed ......... "So, why wasn't that an interracial couple??!!??". Hell, we don't want a *beep* so let's make it so from the get-go. Perleeze ......
See Line of Duty 3. "I'm doing this as a favour to her, not you." Of course, you are an interracial cop couple after all. Incidentally, the token Asian member of the weapons team in support-the-whites role (conveniently hanged in part two) also showed up as token Asian member of the pathology team in support-the-whites role in a recent episode of Silent Witness on the Drama channel. They wheel him in to say three lines and then shunt him out the door again. It would be more honest to just make him a grinning coat stand.
shareAgreed, there are a million things they are trying to make me care about. And its not working. I feel like every episode I say "Okay, but who is this now?"
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