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February 2023 Patreon Update/Newsletter (Patreon)

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2023-02-03 04:23:32
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Hey Skip Introthusiasts!

If you’re reading this, that’s because you are a patron! This channel would not be possible without your amazing support, and it certainly wouldn’t be as well-researched and in-depth.  Thank you from the bottom of my cold, empty heart.

Every month I try to put out a newsletter like this one, just to give you a heads up for what to expect and remind you if you missed anything!

First things first, I hope everyone had a great New Year! I took January off from mailbags and roundups because there was so much extra stuff in December for the end of the year. I know, it’s sad, but sometimes we must take breaks. That’s what my therapist tells me anyways. What a quack!

But there are two videos on the channel since I last did one of these and I’m very proud of both of them! How The White Lotus does Satire has been one of the channel’s most successful videos and it was an absolute blast to make. We Own This City & The Reality of Reform wasn’t quite the same blast (because of obvious real-world reasons), but I’m really proud of how that turned out as well. We even got onto the Hasanabi stream, which was pretty cool considering his audience size in the space of progressive politics online.

If you haven’t checked out the conversation I had with Tim Tolka that was clipped in the We Own This City video, you should check it out! I learned a lot and you can too.

My next video is scheduled for 2/18, although I’m still a bit undecided on the topic. I’m leaning towards doing a video about apocalypse TV shows like The Last of Us, Chernobyl, and Station 11 currently.

I’ve got some other collaborations on bigger projects stewing but they’re still far too early along to announce yet, just know that I have big ideas!

The Live Mailbag for February is going to be this Sunday (2/5) at 5pm Pacific, as always there will be another thread for questions.

Attached is a list of every single thing I’ve read for copaganda so far, broken down by episode. I don’t recommend reading all of them (trust me on this one) but there are lots of good pieces. Some of these are also pieces that I think are written by braindead morons (looking at you Matt Yglesias), but I found them illuminating for understanding where police defenders are coming from.

Schedule (dates tentative)

February

2/5 Mailbag

2/18 Video — How to make an Apocalypse Show

Further into the future:

Copaganda Episodes

Cop Shows vs. Fentanyl

How TV Whitewashes Child Protective Services

How Cop Shows Tackle Mental Health - Criminal Minds, Hannibal, and various others

How Law & Order Shaped the Status Quo

Private Investigators - Veronica Mars

Women on Cop Shows

Sex Workers and Sexual Assault in police cop shows

Other Videos

Yellowjackets and the Art of Genre-Bending

Can We Talk About Schmidt from New Girl?

A Passionate Defense of Lost

Better Call Saul & Breaking Bad Retrospective

The Rise and Fall of Heroes

Please, please, please reach out to me if you have any comments, questions, concerns, thoughts, prayers, or even if you just want to say hi either here or at bumtugglies@gmail.com.

Best,

Jackson

Comments

An Oni Moose

when you get to private investigators, you've got to include my all-time favorite: Jim Rockford (leave a message at the beep)

Andrew J. Eisenman

You reading GCPD: Blue Wall right now at DC comics? It’s their attempt at a more political look at Copoganda. Finale’s not for a week or two so I’m still out on how I feel about it, but I find it interesting that DC is taking a closer look at the politics of one of the most famous police forces in fiction, and wonder how much of this will seep into the TV and films going forward.

RedX2099

As a comic book fan I feel like i have to jump in real quick. I've been avoiding that book because I've heard it basically regressed Renee Montoya as a character. I loved her as the Question after she quit being a cop, and Ridley's portrayal of her has been subject to a lot of criticism online. With that said I'm all for idea of reexamining the portrayal of the GCPD as it is portrayed in DC comics. "Batman Year One" shows just how rotten the cops in Gotham really are. That whole book is basically Batman vs the GCPD and the rich assholes that bankroll the GCPD. But DC always writes the Batman books in such a way that as soon as Gordon is Commissioner the department becomes Batman's allies and basically becomes a force for good. I feel like you could get mileage out of Gordon questioning just how much he can do as Commissioner and realizing that he might be enabling a problematic system of power, but it seems like that's not what DC wants to write about or what they think readers want to see.

Andrew J. Eisenman

See, I liked Montoya quitting as well, but having her backslide into the commissioner's role in the context of our current moment feels like it can end up being compelling, entirely dependent on where it ends this month. How many cities did we see commit to defunding after George Floyd, only to end up increasing the funding and doing more damage? Montoya giving being a cop one last try only to make things worse - feels about right. This most recent issue even saw her don the Question mask again. And with Gordon now operating as a private investigator right now, it feels like, if they wanted to, DC is in a moment where they can take things in a new direction with the beloved characters of GCPD and really make them people who couldn't get reform and now stand in opposition. What they've done with the current ex-cop Mayor of Gotham has been a great setup for that.