Can you expand on this? I never thought of it like that, and watched for the first ~4 seasons (largely because I had quite enjoyed the comic up until that point)
The shows have almost identical tropes. Danger is only exceeded by drama, acting is all hyper emotional, characters are killed off for dramatic effect, random acts of betrayal, etc.
Ehh I don’t really see it, beyond the over-reliance on interpersonal drama between characters who should realistically have far bigger concerns than, for example, carol’s husband being kind of a dick. When I think police procedural I think adamantium-lined plot armor for the main characters, while TWD almost had the opposite problem of killing characters for no reason beyond shock value
It’s not? If you replace zombies with criminals you have the exact same show. Hyper emotional people, random acts of betrayal, characters dying for dramatic effect, nonsensical relationships, etc
Oz was quite literally a cop drama, just the prison version. Deadwood was at least rational but again cops versus criminals, same as justified. Boardwalk empire and sopranos have their moments but like deadwood aren’t reliant on the tropes despite using some of them.
Look closer, they are quite literally the exact same formula
Can you expand on this? I never thought of it like that, and watched for the first ~4 seasons (largely because I had quite enjoyed the comic up until that point)
The shows have almost identical tropes. Danger is only exceeded by drama, acting is all hyper emotional, characters are killed off for dramatic effect, random acts of betrayal, etc.
Ehh I don’t really see it, beyond the over-reliance on interpersonal drama between characters who should realistically have far bigger concerns than, for example, carol’s husband being kind of a dick. When I think police procedural I think adamantium-lined plot armor for the main characters, while TWD almost had the opposite problem of killing characters for no reason beyond shock value
Thank women for that one. Their love of “true crime” and hyper emotional drama created some of the laziest tv tropes ever seen.
It did feel formulaic to me in how every episode basically followed the same pattern of:
-Inciting incident from last episode’s conclusion dealt with
-quiet down time for female characters to babble / setup upcoming interpersonal conflicts
-brief taste of the ol’ ultra violence
-more prolonged babbling
-high tension incident set up for next episode
But not the police procedural formula - it was like a really poorly written Breaking Bad imo
idiot kid/female runs off not telling anyone
It’s not? If you replace zombies with criminals you have the exact same show. Hyper emotional people, random acts of betrayal, characters dying for dramatic effect, nonsensical relationships, etc
Oz was quite literally a cop drama, just the prison version. Deadwood was at least rational but again cops versus criminals, same as justified. Boardwalk empire and sopranos have their moments but like deadwood aren’t reliant on the tropes despite using some of them.