Sins Of The Father NCIS And The Family At Work

Kruse (2010), argues that the imaginary is not created alone through the text of TV crime dramas, but is impacted by a viewer’s subjectivity, life experiences, educations, political views, and personal fantasies. Kruse maintains that TV dramas, such as CSI, tainted by the viewer specific position within society, may provide the viewer with the justification for their world view, cause them to reflect on their lives, position, or politics, or be nothing more than mere entertainment. In Kruse’s work, we see the possibility that for many, Dyer’s belief in society’s desire for even a momentary utopian world can be achieved. The entertainment value of an hour’s emersion into a CSI episode, where science always triumphs over man’s fallibility, and …show more content…
Gallagher observes that the show is designed for the baby boomer generation, those people born between 1946 and 1964, and the concerns they have within society today. Messaging throughout the episodes is found to reflect the historical messaging of the triumph of justice, a distain for single-parenthood relationships, and a familial aspect to the workplace, all support the beliefs of the shows target audience. This design according to Gallagher (2016), provides, “an easily acceptable escapist piece of entertainment”, while still providing behavioral messaging the target audience can relate to (p.892). He position is that NCIS can and does provide both entertainment and social construct messaging at the same …show more content…
Whether it should be merely seen as entertainment, political and social commentary on how we should behave, or a vehicle for public education to create transparency of criminal justice systems and its actors is unsettled. Since its origins, the genre of crime based drama has provided consistent messaging that society is safe from evil and justice will prevail, but the question as to whether it is entertainment or something else exposes a gap in or knowledge of the