OT: True Crime

[JackBurton]

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West Cork….produced by Audible but should be available on most podcast apps.

Great real-life mystery

 

[mbow30]

One of my favorite Pet Theories: Crime shows and podcasts are destroying society.

My article:

Dont worry zeke they’re still not on to you.

 

[zeke]

 

[Montana]

One of my favorite Pet Theories: Crime shows and podcasts are destroying society.

My article:

….I do think it reveals something about society for sure.

 

[zeke]

More than that.

It's convinced a generation of a certain type of people that they are surrounded by dangerous psychopaths.

 

[JackBurton]

One of the great, underrated films of the past 20 years

 

[Montana]

One of the great, underrated films of the past 20 years

Costner is awesome in it.


Open Range with him and Duvall is another I liked that didn’t get enough love.

 

[zeke]

To be fair, it deserved to fail just for casting Dane Cook.

 

[CH1]

ya...Dane Cook = a no watch zone for me

 

[CH1]

More than that.

It's convinced a generation of a certain type of people that they are surrounded by dangerous psychopaths.

horror and crime have been bread and butter genres since the printing press was invented

our species has always looked for boogeymen lurking around the corner #survivalmode

 

[Montana]

New details emerge after home searched in Tupac Shakur murder case

Police searched a home in the Las Vegas area on Monday night in the long-dormant murder case of Tupac Shakur, according to police.

abcnews.go.com

Tupac Vegas Search Warrant Tied to Keefe D, Uncle of Rumored Killer

The home cops raided in Vegas this week in connection with the unsolved Tupac murder belongs to the wife of a guy who says he was in the car with a man who shot and killed the late rapper.

www.tmz.com

 

[zeke]

horror and crime have been bread and butter genres since the printing press was invented

our species has always looked for boogeymen lurking around the corner #survivalmode

You need to check the numbers on Crime Shows vs the field. This happened only in the last 25yrs.

 

[CH1]

You need to check the numbers on Crime Shows vs the field. This happened only in the last 25yrs.

different argument though...tech advances have allowed producers to better address their customer's needs.

TV/Radio were basically guessing for the entire 20th century.... mainstreaming was the way to maximize profits, now niche can be uber profitable as well...so yesterday's niche can be tomorrow's mainstream

 

[zeke]

different argument though...tech advances have allowed producers to better address their customer's needs.

TV/Radio were basically guessing for the entire 20th century.... mainstreaming was the way to maximize profits, now niche can be uber profitable as well...so yesterday's niche can be tomorrow's mainstream

nah it's the actual argument - crime shows dominate TV in an amazing way. wasn't like that before.

 

[CH1]

nah it's the actual argument - crime shows dominate TV in an amazing way. wasn't like that before.

network tv?

 

[Montana]

True Crime dominates because it’s the perfect merger between popular scripted detective shows, but comparatively dirt cheap to make relative to them.

It’s a genre that’s always been enormously popular with the public as CH says….but in recent eras also became one of the cheapest to make/most profitable for television.

 

[Montana]

Nothing sold newspapers like True Crime either.

 

[CH1]

Nothing sold newspapers like True Crime either.

yep....yellow journalism was/is a category

 

[CH1]

True Crime dominates because it’s the perfect merger between popular scripted detective shows, but comparatively dirt cheap to make relative to them.

It’s a genre that’s always been enormously popular with the public as CH says….but in recent eras also became one of the cheapest to make/most profitable for television.

that too....no actors....cheapo talking heads.... and stitched together mostly with easy obtainable footage

also translates very well for international market$

 

[Montana]

What makes me ill, is seeing a very specific type of person and/or responses from friends/family of victims who are talking heads on these shows, and I swear feel like this is their time to shine….or they speak in such formulaic tropes, as to make me gag.

There’s like a palpable lack of grief coming across than there is projection/performance.