TV Crime Drama
Are you a personal fan of TV crime dramas or are you just disturbed by them? The past couple of months and/or in the past year tv crime drama have been becoming more popular. Whether people enjoy them or there’s been a case of boredom and there’s nothing to watch. Either way the viewers of tv crime drama have increased from the last couple of years. A crime drama is a type drama show, which has its primary focus or heroes, people whose main job or occupation is to investigate, punish or commit crimes- especially homicide, assault, robbery, etc. Notable crime dramas on TV history include Dragnet, Hill Street Blues, Homicide: Life on the Street, NYPD Blue, Law & Order, The Sopranos and CSI. Most people without a doubt enjoy the thrill of crime
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drama while other are disturbed whether it’s the violence or the corpses of dead people. They appeal to their audience by dealing with themes and issues the viewers are aware of through their engagement with news and current affairs.
People love a mystery and a hero to come to save the day. “ ‘Everyone love a mystery’ Jerry Bruckheimer said ‘People are enamored with crime and solving crime,’ ‘I’m sure a lot of [people] have been touched by it in their lives and want somebody to come in and be the white knight to clean it up’”(Barney). Jerry Bruckheimer a producer of tv crime drama tells writer Chuck Barney that people enjoy seeing a hero such as a “White Knight” to come clean up a mess one of the “bad guys” made. “Understand Bruckheimer ‘White Knight’ theory is the fact that, in TV’s crime shows, good almost always trumps evil…’you read about so much real-life crime in the media and a lot of times you never find out who did it,’ says Colette Farabaugh of San Jose….’In these shows, everything tends to end happily. I think the feeling that comes from watching the bad guys get caught is reassuring’”(Barney). Barney includes what Colette Farabaugh had to say about TV crime dramas which most viewers of crime drama will agree with. Everyday we see the news and we see all these different crimes being committed, but we never really find out who did it. As Farabaugh told in the shows we eventually find out towards the end who the bad guy really is and that’s what we like to see which is having the cruddy guys put down. “We might love the good guys, but the dastardly behavior of serial killers and kidnappers also intrigues us. So says Neil Linden, A Brentwood school teacher. ‘Criminal Minds’ can get pretty dark and brutal...And whether we want to admit it or not, it sucks us in. I would think it has a similar effect that horror movies do on some people. But perhaps the brutality [in the crime shows] is more realistic.’”(Barney). Some people might contradict with Neil Linden and say that all the crime shows do is disturb them with the such violence they include and the crime being committed is really disturbing, such as rape and kidnapping. Even though half the things happening in society is ten times worse than any of the things happening in crime shows. Yes for the most part some episodes of certain crime shows get a bit too disturbing it’s not something to be surprised about says the author of ‘Criminal Minds’: Televisions Violent Crime and its impact on Audiences and Reality. That is exactly what people love about TV crime drama; the mystery is what intrigues us the most.
TV crime dramas grabs our attention on the fact that us as humans love the crime fighting aspect that make us watch.
“After all, we all have a built in sense of justice… this built in sense of justice could be the basis of our desire to watch the bad man go down.”(hubpages.com). Going back to Bruckheimer theory of the “White Knight” coming in to save the day. We like seeing criminals get the punishment they deserve. “So why is there a need to make these?(creative episodes). The obvious explanation is that it prevents boredom. Overtime the human mind has grown to solve puzzle and to see through intricate situations.”(hubpages.com). This explains why tv dramas are what most people enjoy watching. Besides the sense of justice we have people just tend to genuinely enjoy watching crime dramas. It sometimes isn’t the need to see the cruddy guys be put away, but the enjoyment of just watching all the crime fighting and action happening that makes you scream at the TV and get all excited about. “It is a combination of us trying to satisfy our sense of justice, our desire to feel good about ourselves and our urge to have thorough knowledge of someone else’s intentions that makes us so addicted to crime series.”(hubpages.com). While others might disagree and see no interest in crime drama because in general we see enough crime happening in real life whether you read it in the newspaper, media, or even seeing in it on you local 7 news we get sick and tired of watching crime happening all around the world. So, we understand the reason for the crime happening and the violence, but sometimes some the action or events that happen in crime drama are just too fake. “Jurors today want to see some kind of high-tech crime-fighting science, because they’ve seen it on TV: DNA off an eyelash left at the scene, or a magical fingerprint detecting camera. As a prosecutor, a large part of my job was bringing the jury’s expectations into line with reality, despite these TV show.”(Leotta).
Many people made agree with Leotta what happens in TV crime series are just too good to be true. Besides on the other hand most fans of crime dramas will disagree with that statement because as much as we like to admit it not everything seems to good to be true.
drama while other are disturbed whether it’s the violence or the corpses of dead people. They appeal to their audience by dealing with themes and issues the viewers are aware of through their engagement with news and current affairs.
People love a mystery and a hero to come to save the day. “ ‘Everyone love a mystery’ Jerry Bruckheimer said ‘People are enamored with crime and solving crime,’ ‘I’m sure a lot of [people] have been touched by it in their lives and want somebody to come in and be the white knight to clean it up’”(Barney). Jerry Bruckheimer a producer of tv crime drama tells writer Chuck Barney that people enjoy seeing a hero such as a “White Knight” to come clean up a mess one of the “bad guys” made. “Understand Bruckheimer ‘White Knight’ theory is the fact that, in TV’s crime shows, good almost always trumps evil…’you read about so much real-life crime in the media and a lot of times you never find out who did it,’ says Colette Farabaugh of San Jose….’In these shows, everything tends to end happily. I think the feeling that comes from watching the bad guys get caught is reassuring’”(Barney). Barney includes what Colette Farabaugh had to say about TV crime dramas which most viewers of crime drama will agree with. Everyday we see the news and we see all these different crimes being committed, but we never really find out who did it. As Farabaugh told in the shows we eventually find out towards the end who the bad guy really is and that’s what we like to see which is having the cruddy guys put down. “We might love the good guys, but the dastardly behavior of serial killers and kidnappers also intrigues us. So says Neil Linden, A Brentwood school teacher. ‘Criminal Minds’ can get pretty dark and brutal...And whether we want to admit it or not, it sucks us in. I would think it has a similar effect that horror movies do on some people. But perhaps the brutality [in the crime shows] is more realistic.’”(Barney). Some people might contradict with Neil Linden and say that all the crime shows do is disturb them with the such violence they include and the crime being committed is really disturbing, such as rape and kidnapping. Even though half the things happening in society is ten times worse than any of the things happening in crime shows. Yes for the most part some episodes of certain crime shows get a bit too disturbing it’s not something to be surprised about says the author of ‘Criminal Minds’: Televisions Violent Crime and its impact on Audiences and Reality. That is exactly what people love about TV crime drama; the mystery is what intrigues us the most.
TV crime dramas grabs our attention on the fact that us as humans love the crime fighting aspect that make us watch.
“After all, we all have a built in sense of justice… this built in sense of justice could be the basis of our desire to watch the bad man go down.”(hubpages.com). Going back to Bruckheimer theory of the “White Knight” coming in to save the day. We like seeing criminals get the punishment they deserve. “So why is there a need to make these?(creative episodes). The obvious explanation is that it prevents boredom. Overtime the human mind has grown to solve puzzle and to see through intricate situations.”(hubpages.com). This explains why tv dramas are what most people enjoy watching. Besides the sense of justice we have people just tend to genuinely enjoy watching crime dramas. It sometimes isn’t the need to see the cruddy guys be put away, but the enjoyment of just watching all the crime fighting and action happening that makes you scream at the TV and get all excited about. “It is a combination of us trying to satisfy our sense of justice, our desire to feel good about ourselves and our urge to have thorough knowledge of someone else’s intentions that makes us so addicted to crime series.”(hubpages.com). While others might disagree and see no interest in crime drama because in general we see enough crime happening in real life whether you read it in the newspaper, media, or even seeing in it on you local 7 news we get sick and tired of watching crime happening all around the world. So, we understand the reason for the crime happening and the violence, but sometimes some the action or events that happen in crime drama are just too fake. “Jurors today want to see some kind of high-tech crime-fighting science, because they’ve seen it on TV: DNA off an eyelash left at the scene, or a magical fingerprint detecting camera. As a prosecutor, a large part of my job was bringing the jury’s expectations into line with reality, despite these TV show.”(Leotta).
Many people made agree with Leotta what happens in TV crime series are just too good to be true. Besides on the other hand most fans of crime dramas will disagree with that statement because as much as we like to admit it not everything seems to good to be true.