# Series you've recently watched, are now watching or have given up on

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**Created:** [July 9, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108 "2021-07-09T17:50:52Z")\
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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> Okay, but McCoy found that that it looked like the transplant doctors jumped the gun and did the organ harvest before she was “officially” declared dead-. So, McCoy decides to go after the doctor for murder also. Ruining a good doctors life and profession, due to a technicality- every doctor involved said there was no way to wife could recover.

Jack McCoy is a fascist. It’s the only way he makes sense.

> [@Describe how a 'good' TV or movie character was actually a villian. Show your work](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-how-a-good-tv-or-movie-character-was-actually-a-villian-show-your-work/969019/245):
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> Jack McCoy is a pureborn fascist, a man who constantly ignores the law in his quest to win every case, and he absolutely loved the death penalty, constantly using it as leverage against his victims. But worst was his (and Abby Carmichael, possibly the most hard-right character of the 1990s/2000s) dismissive attitude towards the US Constitution. Every time… and I mean every goddamned time… a suspect even DARED to suggest they have rights, McCoy would just act like it was the worst thing: “Here’…

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