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•Some of TV’s Most Popular Shows Are Slapped With a Dumb Label. Stop It!
64% Informative
In their most basic form, Dad TV shows are dude-forward action-adventures where a good guy catches a bad guy who has a mysterious motive.
Many of these shows are newer, hipper, and better-funded versions of old broadcast-TV procedural standards like NCIS , the precursor to what is now popularly known as Dad TV.
In some ways, Dad TV is just an interim label, a symptom of television correcting itself poststreaming glut.
The episodic procedurals of the world, much like formulaic sitcoms, are a foundational part of the television ecosystem.
Even if consumed alone, TV is a social medium, one that thrives on conversation between episodes and seasons and streams.
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English
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