Oh boy am I here to talk about Leverage! And Leverage: Redemption!!!! Devon! I did not know “competence-porn procedurals” was also my preferred genre!! We have talked about Person of Interest before, and I'm trying to think about which other shows I consider in this category, iZombie? I am increasingly excited about the existence of procedurals that are not Copaganda, and I would like to expand the list.
We started watching Leverage because it was filmed in Portland, Or but supposed to be Boston. An amusing combination for me because I was living in Boston at the time (and eventually the team "moved their operations" to Portland which I imagine made the show slightly cheaper to produce and / was like an homage to a place they all liked working!
I have just re-watched the first Season of Redemption and am working through the second and it gets more radical! The show is much improved without Nate Ford (played by Timothy Hutton) and with Harry Wilson (Noah Wyle).
Agreed, there should be so many more nopaganda shows (just go with it). iZombie still feels inherently a bit like copaganda since they're working out of the coroner's office and they help the police, but maybe Zoo falls under that nopaganda umbrella? I would love to hear other entries into this canon.
Oh yes iZombie is a competence-porn procedural and is FOR SURE copaganda. WE could make a chart about which shows do both.
I was thinking more about what works about Leverage and I think part of it is the way it shows the way the military / prison industrial complex does harm. Eliot Spencer's character has consistent respect for veterans without glorifying the military, and there are several story lines that really illuminate harms done to folks who have served. Person of Interest plays with similar themes, but not in the same depth.
Oh boy am I here to talk about Leverage! And Leverage: Redemption!!!! Devon! I did not know “competence-porn procedurals” was also my preferred genre!! We have talked about Person of Interest before, and I'm trying to think about which other shows I consider in this category, iZombie? I am increasingly excited about the existence of procedurals that are not Copaganda, and I would like to expand the list.
We started watching Leverage because it was filmed in Portland, Or but supposed to be Boston. An amusing combination for me because I was living in Boston at the time (and eventually the team "moved their operations" to Portland which I imagine made the show slightly cheaper to produce and / was like an homage to a place they all liked working!
I have just re-watched the first Season of Redemption and am working through the second and it gets more radical! The show is much improved without Nate Ford (played by Timothy Hutton) and with Harry Wilson (Noah Wyle).
Agreed, there should be so many more nopaganda shows (just go with it). iZombie still feels inherently a bit like copaganda since they're working out of the coroner's office and they help the police, but maybe Zoo falls under that nopaganda umbrella? I would love to hear other entries into this canon.
Oh yes iZombie is a competence-porn procedural and is FOR SURE copaganda. WE could make a chart about which shows do both.
I was thinking more about what works about Leverage and I think part of it is the way it shows the way the military / prison industrial complex does harm. Eliot Spencer's character has consistent respect for veterans without glorifying the military, and there are several story lines that really illuminate harms done to folks who have served. Person of Interest plays with similar themes, but not in the same depth.