Cops and docs

[altariel]

Television these days is pretty much given over to police shows or hospital shows (or what I call icky shows of twisted sickness), i.e. cops and docs. Preferences (guess mine)?

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[manna]

Cops and Docs

CSI!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Gesundheit!

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I would vote "Neither", but that isn't an option.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

No really good police dramas?

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Possibly, but I watch very little TV. The last police drama I watched regularly was probably Columbo.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

What he said.

The only medical show I watch is House and only for his snark. I suppose the closest I get to a cop show is Monk.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Several people have said I'd enjoy Monk, but I keep forgetting to watch it.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's fun. Light, entertaining fluff with quirky characters, including the police, and a classic detective story with no graphic stuff to squick me (I don't like the body tours in House either). I came to Monk late because of not liking cop shows; lucky they repeated it.

Favourites at the moment (in the absence of any SF at all) are Hustle and a local show called Outrageous Fortune about an eccentric family of career criminals that really pushes the bad taste envelope sometimes.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Our DVDs of season 2 of Hustle landed at the start of the week and have been devoured. God, I love that show.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Me too. I was about to buy the S1 DVDs when it came on here (it's still showing). If S2 doesn't appear quickly I might consider buying it but it's so expensive here: postage dooubles all prices.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

If you do decide to invest, keep an eye out for whether or not they're the edited DVDs: when S1 was released over here, it was the edited episodes for US transmission.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip. I could get very addicted to Hustle.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

This Hustle-junkie agrees!

[aralanthiriel.livejournal.com]

Docs! I am so addicted to House right now. It's even overtaking CSI as my favourite!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I watched half of the first episode, and all the medical stuff squicked me out.

[aralanthiriel.livejournal.com]

That's a bummer! I watch the show for the snark. The dialogue is usually very snappy and fun. Yesterday's episode was particularly good, since I have quite the thing for House/Cuddy. *waves shippy flag*

I mostly tune out the medical jargon, since I have no clue what they mean, and I look away if they're doing the gross magic school bus tour through the body thing!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I've read some of the snark online and I love it. But the magic school bus tour thing (excellent description) just did my head in.

[aralanthiriel.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's too bad. If you want to know about indicators to turn your head away, they usually start with the heavy drums and suspenseful music and a fast zoom-in on the patient right before they dive in.

Man. I'm paying wayyy too much attention that show. But it's so wonderfully addictive. :D

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I might risk another episode. But I really, really feel queasy looking at innards.

[aralanthiriel.livejournal.com]

I think the show is quite worth the risk. :D

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Well, for some strange reason, I had a Julian/Simon moment, which was very "oooh, pretty!" so I voted docs. But only docs without twisted ickiness.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Docs without doctoring.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Exactly! None of that messy, icky stuff.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

With katlinel, I voted Docs because of Simon and Julian, and, I dunno, maybe Andy and Harold on "Everwood." And Doctor Who!

But in general, neither cop shows nor doctor shows do a thing for me.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

God he's lovely in that icon.

Doc-shows make me feel queasy. And I love Law and Order... which is mostly cops.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Depends on the docs and cops in question. If the docs were, say, Cardiac Arrest, then they'd trump pretty much any cops I can think of except Star Cops. Some of the Doctors Who, ditto. Some other docs, they might or might not.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I stupidly didn't think of Who-doctors until after I'd posted the quiz.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Cops, definitely cops. Why would I want to go home at the end of the day, turn on the TV, and watch more work?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Good point!