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Crusinforabrusin · 11-11-2016, 07:46 AM

Why are all these dramas so depressing and dreary? Not that I enjoy them but that's all I see when flipping past channels. I get it , some dramas from yesteryear were also dreary (Hill Street Blues) but the vast majority were not. A lot of them added a little humor into the show. And most older drama\crime shows did not use dreary or depressing backgrounds. And one final thing old drama\crime did not really do on television: show vicious beatings , or any graphical scenes(that is until NYPD Blue premiered)

bmasters9 · 11-11-2016, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Crusinforabrusin

A lot of them added a little humor into the show.

Like Knight Rider, which, silly though it might have been in its run from 1982-86 on NBC, actually is turning out to be one of my favorites (got reacquainted with it through Mill Creek's 16-disc DVD lot release of it). I haven't been seeing them in order (cherry-picking from the remaining three seasons [1983-86]; had already seen the first one before), but it's really not that bad a show, IMO.

DJM77 · 11-11-2016, 01:52 PM

A similar thing could be said about sitcoms. In the 70's and 80's a lot of them had "very special episodes" and dramatic moments. It's certainly a thing of the past.

11-11-2016, 07:46 AM	#1
Crusinforabrusin It's time to move on, Goodbye Senior Member Join Date: Dec 27, 2015 Posts: 2,056	TV shows are depressing in this day and age Why are all these dramas so depressing and dreary? Not that I enjoy them but that's all I see when flipping past channels. I get it , some dramas from yesteryear were also dreary (Hill Street Blues) but the vast majority were not. A lot of them added a little humor into the show. And most older drama\crime shows did not use dreary or depressing backgrounds. And one final thing old drama\crime did not really do on television: show vicious beatings , or any graphical scenes(that is until NYPD Blue premiered)
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11-11-2016, 01:52 PM	#3
DJM77 Member Forum Veteran Join Date: May 15, 2001 Location: Missouri Posts: 5,568	A similar thing could be said about sitcoms. In the 70's and 80's a lot of them had "very special episodes" and dramatic moments. It's certainly a thing of the past.
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