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    Thanks for this, David. Your point about this being a relious calling seems particularly apt in this episode in which Sgt. Friday gathers evicence from the nuns. What I find particulary interesting is the way the episode (an the series) distances itself f ...
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    Thanks for this essay, Jocelyn. I like your acknowledgement that these series often use the basic strcuture of the crime to confront other issues along the way. The Law & Order franchise was/is especially adept at this. It's one of the things tha ...
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    Thanks for this, Brian. I find the interplay between elements of crime series fascinating. There are elements of Holmesian intellect in shows like CSI (Gil's stragely deep understanding of bugs, for instance), and then certain forensic elements of ev ...
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    Thanks so much for this excellent piece, Samantha. As a question of history, this feels like a very useful intervention into a narrative that particular historical social and cultural shifts led to what we now think of as depcitions of sexual violence. Yo ...