#Bc a lot of them use copaganda pretty heavily

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Also ok I need to sleep but deadloch is such a good satire also. Like I’ve watched some cop shows, and holy shit it flips every aspect over. The obvious one is that it’s women leading and men getting murdered instead of the other way around, but the one I find the most interesting and most important, is that it takes the “few bad apples”, as well as the “ends justify the means” shit, and completely flips it. Like. Ok. B99 is a cop show. It’s a “progressive” cop show, that sort of tries? To have some messaging about bad policing, but it still falls into the issue of the messages being: “most cops are fine it’s just that some cops are racist! But we can just get them fired so it’s ok” and “it’s necessary for cops to break the law and do morally questionable things to solve a case, and they risk getting fired for it so it’s brave”

Meanwhile even with a progressive show like b99, it still fits into the box of what deadloch is parodying. Like the core messages of deadloch are the opposite of what I listed above. Like we have: “the system is rotten, corrupt, and the few good cops are getting pushed out because cops are actively discouraged from being good” and “the bravest thing an officer can do is follow the law and treat people with human decency”

Like idk what else to say it’s just really good. It’s a really good satire. I went in with low expectations (bc I didn’t realize it was going to be a satire) but like. Yeah It’s really really well done.

#TBC I’m not saying u can’t like b99 or other earnest cop shows. They’re fun like I get it. #But like. Be aware of what they’re telling you. #Bc a lot of them use copaganda pretty heavily #deadloch #B99 critical #Also this is just from my pov as an American who’s had crappy experiences with cops bc of mostly sexism and anti native bullshit #The show is Australian idk how different policing is down there and like what the nuances are there. Bc. I am not Australian. #also side note I liked the indigenous aspect of the show. I liked it so much. It was so so so good.