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Seriously? Another cop drama?
Believe it or not, many are saying that we are currently living in the “Golden Age” of television. This special time is believed to have started around the year 2000, when technological advancements in media distribution were made (and when The Sopranos had just gotten started).
There are also some that believe the “Golden Age” ended sometime in the late 2010’s, as shows like Breaking Bad, Mad Men and Game of Thrones all wound down their incredible, respective runs. However, it honestly all depends on how you define the golden era of television.
If it was “the most television available at any given time,” we’re certainly still right in the middle of it.
That’s because streaming services and networks continue to churn out shows that sometimes don’t even sound real. As of right now, a new show that ABC just announced is getting a lot of attention, only because it’s yet another police drama that’s just a spinoff of one that already exists.
Spinoffs have become the new “hot” thing, only because it allows for television producers to create something different with the familiarity of something else. That tends to encourage fans of the original show to check out the spinoff version, and once TV creators figured that out, the spinoffs have just kept coming.
That’s what led ABC to green light a new (but also somewhat overdone) “9-1-1 Nashville” series:
The reports are indeed true… Music City is getting its own police-solve-various-crimes series. And the “9-1-1” team apparently passed on other potential locations like Las Vegas and Hawaii in order to bring the spinoff to Nashville, Tennessee (because of tax credits the state was able to offer).
Obviously, the announcement has mostly been met with two different reactions. The first being that people can’t believe TV executives continue to just recycle and repurpose the same show in various locations. The second response is the more fun of the two, with people trying to guess some of the storylines “9-1-1 Nashville” will cover.
One Reddit thread really got into the weeds with spitballing plot lines, and if you are familiar with Nashville lore, some of them are inspired by true events:
“They’d get 100 calls from the South precinct and then pan to the 50 officers standing around on Broadway not doing anything.”
“If a colostomy bag doesn’t figure into an episode, it will be a failure.”
“Someone orders their hot chicken too hot and has respiratory distress.”
“Gunfights in in a Kroger parking lot (using guns stolen from nearby trucks).”
“Gratuitous sex scenes featuring the Laverne PD.”
“Someone choking at some stand in version of West End Chili’s, with a nod to it being our best restaurant.”
“Bachelorette party gone wrong.”
“Someone gets hit by a car on a scooter.”
“A semi carrying a load of angry bulls gets broken into releasing the bulls on to broadway.
“Party bus full of bachelorettes dangles on the edge of the Korean Veterans Bridge over the Cumberland.
“The case of the Air BNB Party House… I imagine something like, ‘There must be 30 people staying there! And THAT’s a two bedroom house!'”
“Someone on Broadway gets hit by a chair thrown from the roof of a Honky Tonk.”
That last one was low hanging fruit, don’t you think?
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