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Bad boys! Whatcha gonna do?

Cops on TV have been around for as long as, well, as long as there has been TV. The cop show is unquestionably the most successful genre of TV, each week delivering morality plays with good guys vs bad guys are the lines that blur inbetween.

This week on Always Be Watching we talk about cop shows and what we want from them. 

Is Ramy the best show currently on TV? It's right up there, so Chris and Dan discuss the first episode of that. They also flashback to the 1983 film The Right Stuff. And then there's the fourth installment of the Trip To movies which takes Brydon and Coogan to Greece.

Oh yeah... there's also the season finale of the Always Be Watching TV Masters trivia competition.

To infinity and beyond! This week on the Always Be Watching podcast Dan and Chris want to get boots on the moon as they talk about the new Steve Carell comedy Space Force (02:30) - the critics hate it... Chris really digs it. Dan watched the buzzy new doco Spaceship Earth - spoiler alert: it's not really about people on a spaceship. They were on Earth all along (16:36). Chris raves about new animated comedy Central Park (25:31). And then the guys wrap up the reviewing portion of this podcast by talking about TV's most basic romcom: Love Life (32:01).

And then they quiz. (39:08)

The gang this week discover they're creating too much content for one podcast.

Chris finally gets off his keister and watches Superstore after Dan told him months ago that he'd love it. Spoiler alert: He loves it. (05:30)

And Dan revisits an HBO classic How To Make It In America. (18:50)

Why are they watching older shows this week? They found them on new Australian streaming service Binge. Dan and Chris offer their thoughts on it and delve into the morality of paying for a partially Murdoch-owned service. (28:26)

And then they wrap up the week with a trivia quiz. (47:35)

Television is the thing this year, my friends. And boy do we have some TV to talk about.

Mint Condition (Vimeo) - 01:55

The Great (Hulu / Stan) - 18:31

Avenue 5 (HBO / Foxtel / Binge) - 27:26

Into The Night (Netflix) - 34:20

I've been advised to tell you by the Always Be Watching legal team that this podcast episode passes the legal definition of "too much show".

Oh, and there's a round of TV trivia at the end of the episode.

The Midnight Gospel is a stoner animated philosophical comedy on Netflix. Opinions on this podcast are mixed. There's also the brand new pre-teen detective show on Apple TV+ Home After Dark. Dan has some very firm opinions on that. Meanwhile Chris has watched Upload on Amazon Prime Video and has several very positive thoughts on it.

And then the lads play some TV trivia.

This week Dan checks out the hyped new shows Normal People (Netflix) and Upload (Amazon Prime Video) - the good news is that both are great telly. Meanwhile Chris indulges his Beastie Boys fandom with the new feature doco Beastie Boys Story (Apple TV+) and gets nostalgic with the 1997 cult film Starship Troopers.

Stick around for the end of the podcast as our weekly trivia game continues. This week's category is Dogs on Screen. Can you score more points than Dan? Let's find out.