This Trump supporter watches documentaries (serious ones not the kind on the History channel), Blue Bloods, Code Black, Bunuel movies, precode American movies, old French movies (Les Enfants du Paradis, La Règle du Jeu, La Grande Illusion, Le Trou, etc), Fellini, Pasolini, David Lynch, oh and a shitload of other stuff.
What I do not watch (life is too short) are inane late night shows with dumb jokes and dumber celebrities, any of the reality crap and any awards show with Hollywood stars reminding themselves how fantastic and truly concerned they are.
They don’t need to be lock-step for there to be broad demographic strokes. Not every Republican watches crime procedurals but crime procedurals are more popular among Republican voters.
I know some Trump supporters and a lot of non-political shows are on their radar. Home Remodeling shows, reality TV stuff, etc.
We should have a therapy group. I’m not Catholic, but I am a pretty conservative Christian who sat there dumbfounded while evangelicals(and the like) voted for the man…who represented everything opposite them. Then again, I am an educator and support funding to public schools, so perhaps I’ve left many of them behind already.
The show is an interesting mix. It starts with being a basic police procedural, catch the bad guy story line. Add in the military background (SUPPORT THE TROOPS!), the male lead in the original NCIS is an authoritarian hard-ass type with a heart of gold. His bosses are all no-nonsense authoritarian hard-ass types. Layer in a liberal dose of ominous backstories for everyone where they mysteriously mention time spent in Bosnia, or Afghanistan, or (insert exotic place name). And the resolution of each story line is usually blasting away at the bad guy (I can’t remember them actually arresting anyone, but that’s just me.)
But, where the shows really work is that there is a lot of humor and quirky characters and relationships in the main cast. They do a good job with that aspect.
This graphical story from the NYT is from a month ago (Dec 27, 2016) but it has maps of the most popular shows in different areas of the country.
There’s a lot of data to mull over. One thing I do see is that people in rural areas do not watch any late night shows such as Kimmel or Saturday Night Live. Those shows are all very left-leaning these days.
Every cop is good, honest and mean. The cops always win. Every crime is solved. Every week a bunch of minority undesirables get shot / blown up / arrested or all three.
The show is the world every republican wishes they lived in. The good, white and rich get to stay home, safe and warm, and their surrogates get to go out and shoot the “bad people.”
Seems to me all this study tells us is which shows are more popular in rural areas than in urban areas. No surprise Duck Dynasty falls into that category. But I can’t tell if DD is more popular than SNL in those areas. And let’s not forget, what was it about a year ago, SNL let Donald host!
The show must have changed. I recall from the first few seasons that most of the bad guys were rogue members of the military, usually with mental health issues, military who had flipped allegiance, and terrorists.
