Dick Wolf and Judith Light
I haven’t commented on all the crime shows. It is enough to say that we are to believe that good cops will eventually triumph over bad cops, and that most criminals are tracked down and punished. I.e., the State is looking out for you and me, with all the tools that modern science (including profiling) can muster. Law and Order: Criminal Intent (not analyzed here) adds a flourish: the Vincent D’Onofrio character is often dissatisfied with normal procedures, co-opts Freud, and seemingly obeys a higher (more compassionate) law.
https://clarespark.com/2009/10/15/the-christianization-of-ziva-david-ncis/
https://clarespark.com/2009/10/02/roman-polanski-and-his-critics/
https://clarespark.com/2010/05/20/criminal-minds-and-the-pathology-of-rural-america/
https://clarespark.com/2010/10/24/mad-men-and-the-jewish-problem/
https://clarespark.com/2010/12/12/hbo%e2%80%99s-in-treatment-and-boardwalk-empire/
https://clarespark.com/2011/04/27/james-m-cains-gorgon-gals-2/
https://clarespark.com/2011/05/20/the-mentalist-melville-blake-and-israel/
https://clarespark.com/2011/07/07/network-and-its-offspring/
https://clarespark.com/2012/02/04/blue-bloods-freud-trauma-911/
https://clarespark.com/2012/02/09/glee-goes-la-raza/
https://clarespark.com/2012/05/18/smash-season-finales-and-the-demonic/
https://clarespark.com/2012/06/26/aaron-sorkins-scottish-blood/
https://clarespark.com/2012/07/03/andy-griffiths-greatest-performance/
https://clarespark.com/2012/07/09/hbo-does-gellhorn-in-red/
https://clarespark.com/2012/09/23/homeland-and-the-idea-of-the-fifth-column/
https://clarespark.com/2012/07/29/girls-or-the-new-lost-generation/
https://clarespark.com/2013/02/14/is-there-a-culture-of-violence/
https://clarespark.com/2013/01/26/decoding-call-me-ishmael-and-the-following/ (Read this first)
https://clarespark.com/2013/02/25/potus-michelle-and-the-end-of-the-democratic-republic/
https://clarespark.com/2013/04/26/the-television-season-goes-dark/
https://clarespark.com/2013/05/27/smash-the-perfect-liberal-backstage-musical/
https://clarespark.com/2013/06/20/james-gandolfini-as-tony-soprano/
https://clarespark.com/2013/09/22/the-newsroom-season-two/
https://clarespark.com/2014/03/24/the-good-wife-and-bad-timing/
https://clarespark.com/2014/06/25/penny-dreadfuls-sinister-significance/
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