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- FOX
- Mar 11, 1989
- FOX
- Mar 11, 1989
Summary Now known as the original reality series, COPS hit the airwaves in early 1989, putting camera crews in police cars all across the United States. Adopting the Cinema Verité style of documentary filming, COPS uses no narration, depending completely on the police officers and the footage shot as it happens to tell the story. Still one of...
- FOX
- Mar 11, 1989
- FOX
- Mar 11, 1989
Summary Now known as the original reality series, COPS hit the airwaves in early 1989, putting camera crews in police cars all across the United States. Adopting the Cinema Verité style of documentary filming, COPS uses no narration, depending completely on the police officers and the footage shot as it happens to tell the story. Still one of...
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
82
100% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Don't miss the pilot. It's the best new crime series of the year, whatever you call it, tabloid TV, exciting TV, real TV. [6 Jan 1989]
On the one hand, it's absolutely captivating, raw and unpredictable, a bubbling boiler of excitement rendered in the style of CBS' "48 Hours" and unrivaled by conventional cop dramas in prime time...On the other hand, the camera assumes the disgusting role of hanging judge by prematurely filling the screen with the faces of numerous suspects swept up in drug busts, some of whom may turn out to be innocent or may even go uncharged, for all we know. [7 Jan 1989, p.C1]
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Generally Favorable
Based on 9 User Ratings
6.6
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 User Ratings
6.6
67% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
11% Mixed
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22% Negative
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SEASON 1
Watching criminals get arrested on TV never gets old. Episodes of COPS are rarely repetitive and always include some sort of action and excitement. The only problem with this show is that it makes people think that crime is more common that it really is. Police officers aren't actually arresting someone at all times of the day as the show suggests, especially in smaller towns.
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Be forewarned: Cops may not be everyone's cup of tea. The language is raw, the emotions intense, and some of the scenes, like the one where a homicide unit fishes a cadaver out of a canal, are definitely not for the squeamish. But give credit to Cops' producers. They didn't want "pretty," and they didn't want Armani. They wanted the real stuff. What they got makes "Miami Vice" look like a cop-out. [7 Jan 1989, p.30]
More compelling than the general run of fictional drama, and often funnier, sadder and more poignant, Cops at first seems to be an unassembled jigsaw puzzle...This is a documentary being pieced together before our eyes. There is a strong, undeniable element of tabloid TV in Cops, of sensationalism and exploitation. But there is more. There is a picture of the toll this kind of work takes on the human beings who do it. Cops may also make television stars of its subjects.[11 March 1989, p.C-11]
An ugly little glimpse into our hometown community...A cinema-verite, hand-held camera walk on the wild side with the Broward County Sheriff's Office.. A televised tour into (Broward's) heart of darkness...It had real energy. It was tense, taut, a video knuckle sandwich. You were with those cops as they chased fleeing perps, wrestled with muscled smugglers. And you couldn't help but be impressed with the heroism and dedication of the men and women on the streets -- Sheriff Nick 'I Never Met A Camera Angle I Didn't Like' Navarro's grandstanding antics notwithstanding. [Jan 1989]
I watch the series once every while at a friend's house while watching his dog while he is away at work. I am pleased with the entire series. It shows you how dumb people are and can be. Arresting criminal's is a police officer's duty and to file the paper work on that criminal so that they can be brought in and do some jail time to think about why they are there.
I won't lie though, some of the episodes are played as in just for show so that they can get more people to watch and make more money from those viewers. I don't like shows that do it just for the money cause it's not real.
I'm sadly going to have to give this a 5/10. I like the excitement in the episodes and how good of a job the actors do just to show people that people can be such moron's. There's so many of them that are not moron's, they are just high on something or want the attention(witch is what everyone wants, who doesn't?).
Good TV show, really but it's just for the money from the viewers.
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SEASON 1
Why? Why do you need to watch criminals get arrested on TV? It makes no sense what the inventors of this show wanted. to broadcast criminals to everyone?
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