[Rummyfan]

FX is a network stuffed with antiheroes. It has thrived on dramas that glorified corrupt cops ("The Shield"), unethical, oversexed plastic surgeons ("Nip/Tuck"), firemen who rape their wives and pressure their teenage daughters to have sex ("Rescue Me")

The Shield did not glorify the corrupt cops it portrayed.

I don't remember any wife getting raped in Rescue Me. And I absolutely love Archer. Sometimes BB just needs to relax.

[RedMonqey]

I don't remember any wife getting raped in Rescue Me. And I absolutely love Archer. Sometimes BB just needs to relax.
Archer is funny but it is oriented towards adults.
"Get Smart" was "comically inept" as well.

Rescue was a good but edgy series in the beginning but I lost interest in it as it went beyond "edgy".

"Sons of Anarchy" is a series I just began to watch but it is pretty much what a biker show should be about...

Nip/Tuck was degenerate from the beginning and went downhill from there.

[lentulusgracchus]

The Shield did not glorify the corrupt cops it portrayed.

Actually, it did. I say that as a fan. Michael Chiklis's character was indeed glorified in some aspects, and in others he was portrayed as "trapped" by his "bad decision". Yes, his character was identifiable as a corrupt policeman -- but he was portrayed sympathetically, as distinct from the Walton Goggins character, who was portrayed as butt-ugly. (In fact, Goggins seems to have a career as the Ugly American Cracker Boy -- currently he's StepinFetchit'ing his way across thousands of screens in Lincoln and Django.)

That only a few characters come across as Honest Americans in that series -- and they seem all to be women (CCH Pounder's and Glenn Close's characters, ee.g.) -- can't be accidental, and I think it must be part of a Left narrative about what "really" makes America work.

I don't think the complaint that The Shield was anti-American, Active Measures propaganda should be cavalierly dismissed. Bozell may have it right.