Hideously dreadful MAGA porn TV show renewed for yet ANOTHER season

Ugh, he's gotten old and fat.

He was always a shitty actor, but he used to have those good looks to make up for it. Women were too busy dreaming of a mustache ride to notice how lacking he really was.

My favorite show. I love Jamie Reagan. And somehow, I can't imagine a single Reagan voted for Trump.

I bet he has made an absolute mint off this show and will in perpetuity. He and people like Mark Harmon have hit the sweet spot. James Spader is another.

I love to see when a would be washout/has been is able to sneak in and end up winning it all. From B list to set for life.

Andy Griffin in Matlock is another good one. Although he was probably already rich from AGShow.

CBS is going MAGA. Didn't they offer Roseanne a contract, to write a series, about working class MAGAs? Tom Selleck is despicable.

Ryan Philippe’s show is called Shooter? Could they not come up with a more creative name?

They should have just called it “Pow Pow Bang”

R4 They've always been the Old People Network.

JAG

NCIS

Big Bang Theory

Blue Bloods

The Good Wife

It's all as bland and comforting as a bowl of plain oatmeal.

A lot of money and time and meetings go into giving a network show its title and they came up with ‘Shooter.’

I’m at a loss for words.

(And clearly so were they!

Who are we kidding; they should have reneythis show for 15 more years! We know it will never end.

*renewed

🤗 Selleck looks pretty damn fine for a 78 year old man.

Even the title implies racism and privilege.

I liked Selleck in the Jesse Spencer movies.

The righteous indignation of it all.

I can't wait for Magnum to talk me into a reverse mortgage so he can steal my home and life savings.

How is it Maga?

Bif Bang Theory was never an old person show; look at its demographic ratings 18-49.

The new Reagan, Joe Hill, makes momma's mussy moist.

The only show I watch.

“Shooter” as a title is not exactly drawing me in. Was “man with gun” not available? Was it named by a bot? The algorithm took a good look at the show and came up with “shooter”

Surely they didn’t spend millions testing and contracting marketing firms to come up with that. Maybe someone let the sexy but dim intern name the show?

Maybe this was the temporary name and they forgot to update it in post production. Like a place holder.

CBS has flirted with deplorables at least going back a couple decades now. I don’t get their connection but it’s there

Will Estes. Still the most handsome man on television.

The only people I know who watch this show are elderly white people. I mentioned to a friend of mine that my dad loves this show and he quipped "everyone's dad loves that show." We're both over 50 so our dads are all in their 80s.

I never miss an episode R20 of "Better Connecticut."

😏 People who take out reverse mortgages do so without the intention of ever paying the money back. Whatever their reason, they want cash and want it now, they and don't really care what happens after they're gone.

I suddenly want to buy silver coins.

Some DLers have way too much time on their hands.

Funny because my mom watches this.

The should change the name of Blue Bloods to White Power

Let’s make a whole show about keepi mg the White order and blacks at bay.

How many blondes are the leads? Casting by Roger Ailes?

It keeps them away from Fox and those other "news" stations for at least an hour a week, so I'm fine with the renewal.

Is this week's special guest Kelsey Grammer?

My mom watches it but hates magats and trump.

Pat Heaton will play a 3 show arch as assistant DA, and Tom Selleck will lecture her about the importance of maintaining ethics.

I'm a very progressive liberal and I have been watching the show since season one. It's pretty well nuanced for a show about a police family. And Will Estes is still dreamy to look at.

[quote]Ryan Philippe’s show is called Shooter? Could they not come up with a more creative name?

It's a show about a marksman who fights crime and shoots copious loads.

[quote] Was “man with gun” not available?

Jennifer Tilly beat you to it

I guess Selleck's character is meant to be much younger. He's only 6 years younger than Len Cariou, his father on this atrocity.

[quote] Pat Heaton

Cunt!

[quote] Pat Heaton

Fetid shit eating Nazi fascist cunt!

CBS has always been the dumbest, most basic network.

My mom used to watch this and she was far from MAGAT. She just had shitty, awful taste in television. Whenever I would go back home to visit for the holidays, it would be marathons of this, SVU or everything and anything Lifetime/Hallmark TV movies. She and her boyfriend had the TV on round the clock (it was mostly him; she liked to take breaks).

I think this show is a shitfest, but it is super popular and I think it's really shitty of CBS to make the entire team take a 25% pay cut in order to keep the show going. CBS basically mints money on this show. It does spectacularly well not only in its network timeslot, but everywhere it airs/streams. They could easily pay the team their regular salaries and still make a fantastic profit. It's one thing to ay- hey, we can't give you your yearly salary bump, but to cut people's paychecks for the pure greed of it is ridiculous.

R40 you just described my mother to a T. What kills me is she will watch the same episode 4 times in a month. This and all the SVU and CSI shows,over and over . Then she bitches when I dont watch tv with her.

R37 Len Cariou used to know how to pick good projects. He was the original Sweeney Todd, you know!

The toothy old fool also played the cad in "The Four Seasons," and played a rare villainous role as an alien posing as Captain Janeway's dead father in a creepy episode of "Star Trek: Voyager"

Yep, R41. Or they will say to me- You can watch whatever you want to, we're not watching this. The ONE time, years ago, I took them up on it, it was something on PBS (this was before everything was online and on demand) and I knew I would likely not have a chance to see it again, they both started in with the sighs and eye rolls (the boyfriend especially) and I gave up after 10 minutes and never asked again.

The last few years I would visit, I would just put in my headphones and play any sort of classical music so I could read without having to hear the TV 24/7. The only place to sit in the condo besides the living room/dining room was an adjoining den that didn't have a door, so there was no escaping it until I went to bed.

It's a MAGA show, it's a boomer one. Just like NCIS. Liberal boomers also watch it.

R44 *it isn't

Haven't watched Blue Bloods in years. It pissed me off that the whole family had normal accents but the son who had a really broad accent that just didn't fit in. Where did he learn it?

I understand why old people watch it though and I don't think it has anything to do with politics. It's just easy stuff to watch and you don't have to concentrate on it and you always know how its going to end. It's same old, same old and it's comfortable to watch. You don't have to think at all.

It's the TV equivalent of living an easy life.

Signing up to be a member of this TV Reagan family - doesn't it mean that the only way to get out of Sunday dinner is to die, go off to college or, what else? Didn't they murder Donnie Wahlberg's wife so the actress could opt-put? And then there was the granddaughter... isn't she gone? I haven't watched the program in years... the two grandsons must be college age - did either opt to get out of the metro area for school? And didn't the Reagan's learn that the long-dead son knock-up some broad before getting murdered? Did they add the little bastard to the Sunday arguments over mashed potatoes and grizzled beef?

Yes, R47 and he’s a beautiful ginger.

It's filmed in Sunnyside, Queens.

Will Estes is closeted gay, correct?

[quote]Ryan Philippe’s show is called Shooter? Could they not come up with a more creative name?

R5, R7, R18; "Shooter" is based off a movie of the same name. Starring Mark Wahlburg no less!! It barely broke even at the box office but did well on home video. So there was already some name recognition for the TV show title.

Never watched the show, simply because I've never been a fan of Selleck. What exactly is wrong with the show? Why does DL not appreciate it?

I watched a few episodes years ago. The Sunday dinners are the best part.

What is the MAGA connection to the show?

R23 you ignorant dumb fuck do you actually know what a reverse mortgage is?

R50, yes.

R54 There is no MAGA connection to the show. Some people here automatically assume if it is a show about law enforcement, that the cast, the crew and the viewers are probably right wing voters, so they must be MAGA. This show is shot in New York City. NYC residents are overwhelmingly Democrats who hated Trump even before he ran for president for his self-promoting. narcissism, his corrupt business dealings, and his racism. I cannot speak for the shows viewership in middle America.

My 84yo father-in-law LOVES this show. He calls it “The Blue Bloods.” He is always going on about how good the writing is, for some reason. And yes, he’s a Fox/Newsmax viewer, though he keeps quiet about it when my husband and I visit.

From seeing buts of the show at their house over the years, it seems like its politics are not exactly overt, but of course it’s extremely pro-cop, stodgy and traditional in a way that feels conservative.

I also notice Selleck is usually seated behind a desk or shot in a way to conceal his bulk and that doesn’t require him to move much.

How anyone can watch CBS for any show is a mystery to me. The other two networks are not far behind in their awfulness.

The storylines are always pro-cop.

The Black kid always deserved it.

The reporters and reformers are just butting in and need to be arrested for asking so many questions.

The rest of us should be down on our knees sucking the cocks of law enforcement 24/7 for “all that they do.”

It’s nauseating for its views, but also for its predictability. It has the same patriotic and lazy scripts as NCIS.

[quote] The rest of us should be down on our knees sucking the cocks of law enforcement 24/7 for “all that they do.”

Which is the attitude most police unions take if you ever dare question anything they do ever ever ever for even a second.

Ugh…if starlight peppermints and Wether’s Originals were a show, it would be this dreck.

[quote] CBS is going MAGA. Didn't they offer Roseanne a contract, to write a series, about working class MAGAs?

No.

[quote] The storylines are always pro-cop.

Oh, how terrible!

People actually watch this show? Seems very under the radar to me, unlike "Magnum, P.I."

It's a MAGA show because it's very cop-centric and cop-worshipping, law and order, "good guys" v. "bad guys" framing. It has a hardcore Reaganite vibe about it. It appeals to older law and order conservatives even if they hate Trump. Its very much a throwback, like it was written and conceived in the 1980s or earlier.

Broadcast TV is mostly terrible and for Fox News viewers.

If you watch the cop, fire and military dramas no wonder you cower in a corner afraid to leave your house, lest a black or brown person walk down your street!

People watch TV series from former big broadcast networks? How very quaint!

So I guess Selleck is never coming out then?

At this point why would he?

He and Jim Nabors, forever heterosexual.

Referring to a show as MAGA porn is part of the problem. It's a popular show. Shows like this are like opiates on the brain. Easy to watch right before bed.

Shows run forever now if they can because the new episodes helps streaming which gives more value to the new episodes, just like Grey's Anatomy. Never seen it, zero interest.

R56 I'd love to hear more about the supposedly closeted Will Estes. He's yummy!

[quote] It's a MAGA show because it's very cop-centric and cop-worshipping, law and order, "good guys" v. "bad guys" framing. It has a hardcore Reaganite vibe about it.

I don't want to get all too technical about this, but if the show is "Reaganite", I wouldn't call it MAGA-affiliated. From what I read here, it sounds like the show is indeed taking a conservative stance on how to view cops in today's society. I would call that conservative in the original sense, possibly in a "Reaganite" sense even. But those folks who consider themselves close to MAGA do not consider themselves close to former Republican conservatives. I am only pointing it out because I find the distinction between conservatives and MAGA folks important. The first I consider worthy participants in debates. The latter I consider enemies of the country.

R4, I take exception to your inclusion of The Good Wife in your list. I think it was exceptional, especially for broadcast TV.

ditto what r75 said

I thought Will Estes was terrific on a show that was canceled waaaay too soon:

"American Dreams."

It's nice to know that elderly closet cases can still find gainful employment.

And not so elderly.^

[quote]I am only pointing it out because I find the distinction between conservatives and MAGA folks important.

So? I do not. There is no distinction. Reagan and Bush supporters gave us Trump just as much as Trump supporters did. A half century of race-baiting, attacking feminism and demonizing gay people, that leads all the way back to Nixon, is what led us to Trump. You don't get to claim some arbitrary distinction within a group of conservatives who marched in lockstep for decades just because it makes you feel better.

Trump is a symptom. The disease is conservatism.

New episode tonight:

[quote]Jamie learns that Eddie's close friend Tracey may be using the restaurant she owns as a drug front; Erin is accused of causing the suicide of a former colleague; Danny and Baez are faced with various descriptions of the same suspect.

Hope Jamie's is the A storyline.

I guess a Jamie Regan, new boy Joe Hill love story is out of the question.