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Atrocity Television

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This rejection of the outside world eliminates the need for transport, and there are no cars in the C.S.I. series. David Caruso … sometimes turns up in a vast Hummer, an armoured vehicle that transforms a quiet Miami suburb into a bomb-ridden quarter of Baghdad, as if underlining the hostility of the external world. The complete absence of cars touches a nerve of anxiety in the viewer. Television crime series … were filled with their huge carapaces, swerving in and out of alleys, reversing in a howl of burning rubber. Watched with the sound down, episodes of Starsky and Hutch resembled instructional films on valet parking.

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