You really can't escape it.

 

We are really down to a very few regular TV shows that we follow on the traditional channels. Which is a shame because I remember well how I used to love to watch all my favorite shows. Like on a Sunday night when we would watch the Wonderful World of Disney and then Bonanza. Or when I Dream of Jeanie and Bewitched were on. Or Mary Tyler Moore and All in the Family. Good Times. The Jeffersons. Cheers. Friends. Seinfeld. NYPD Blue. Hunter. Mannix. The Fugitive. Have Gun Will Travel. The Rifleman. All of those great shows.

It's all over now.

Every show is a politically correct suck fest. One of the few that we still watch is Chicago Fire. Mainly for nostalgia as my father-in-Law was a fireman and like to see them in action saving people. But the last episode just killed that. 

In this episode there were no fires. No rescues. Not even the soap opera relationship bullshit that they throw in for the broads. It was all about coddling criminals.

The fire chief goes to a supermarket to get some spices because they were going to barbeque and a mook drives a car through the front of the store. Jumps out and starts shooting at the cops pegging about ten shots at them and getting return fire. He takes a bunch of people hostage and threatens to murder them many times. The fire chief talks him down and praises him and tells him they can negotiate so he won't go to jail for the rest of his life. One of the hostages is retired lawyer and promises to defend him, He brings out a badly injured hostage and negotiates a plea deal for a reduced sentence which is just bullshit because the cops don't have the authority to do that. In the end they find a dead body in the market who was killed in the opening salvo. No telling by who but the fire chief claims it was the cops because they are always to blame in Chicago.  The skell knows that he is facing murder charges, so he walks outside to commit suicide by cop. The chief runs out and tackles him and all of the firemen surround them to stop the cops from shooting. Because you have to protect the criminals at all cost.

This show was all about making a stone ass criminal sympathic and protecting him. The wife was irate. She really hated that they spoiled her fireman show with this politically correct tripe. So we are crossing this off of our list.

The only thing we have left now are the Real Housewives and cooking shows. 

It is sick out there and getting sicker.