COVID-19 Lockdown, Day 87

Now that the hysterical over-correction phase of social change has started, I wonder how long it will be before they try to expunge all fictional cops from the entertainment historical record. Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, and The Wire are all critically-acclaimed, award-winning shows that critics and viewers drooled over for the entirety of their runs. Are we now going to pretend none of that happened and seal them in shame vaults deep within the bowels of the earth, right next to all the uranium we used to obliterate and poison vast swathes of the planet? CSI was a pop culture craze for a decade. We going to consign it and its spinoffs to the land of Neverhappened just because it has cops in it?

We shouldn't, but I know what the answer's going to be. Instead of putting a warning or disclaimer on them and letting them air as intended, the drive to be the most righteous will cause the sniveling hippies and the spineless studios to rip them from the airwaves, never to be seen again and spoken of in shamed whispers, as though it were the time Uncle Bob got ripped at Thanksgiving and pissed in Aunt Myrtle's gravy boat. The natural and dangerous consequence of streaming writ large.

I have DVDs of some of these shows, but not all, and the series are incomplete. I wish now that I had completed them because I will never be able to finish them before the purity police come knocking with their outrage and hypocrisy and fanatical determination to cleanse the world one problematic genre at a time.