There are many reasons as to why audiences may enjoy watching crime dramas, this may include many things such as the excitement and thrill the drama would give to them. If the drama was to be a series, the tension and cliff hangers within the series may cause people to have much more excitement and therefore cause them to be hooked to the television when the drama is being aired. The audiences watching the drama may not have much thrill within their own personal lives, so find it interesting and exciting to see what goes on within the lives of the separate characters in the drama.
There are many simple reasons that people may enjoy watching crime dramas. Audiences of crime dramas are more of a older age, so many people may have had a stressful day at the workplace and may find it relaxing to come home and have a quiet night in watching the television and watching other people get stressed about something that is less than likely to happen within reality.
Being a fan of crime dramas myself, it may be due to the fact that people get hooked to watching the drama, it's like people are being dragged into a world of their own whilst they are watching the drama's, this may be because they may be able to relate to a character or a situation that is going on within the drama. They are more than likely to use it as an escape from their daily lives and routines and to relieve stress from the day that they have had.
Also, audiences may relate the crime to the crime that happens in society in reality today. It may be to keep track of how things are more than likely to be handled by institutions such as the police. To see what behavior is right or wrong, and to see what kind of consequences are given now compared to how they used to be in post-modern times. The viewer may also be a criminal themselves and using crime dramas, such as CSI to see how they should go around committing crimes and seeing if they could pick out any pointers on how to do things properly and getting away with it.
People from the elder generation may enjoy watching crime dramas that are set in the past, for example, the show about Inspector George Gently is set in around the 60's showing more of a fun family relationship between the police and how they go about their job. The elder generation may be using these to relate to the past and using it to make comments such as 'those were the days'. And also comparing them to how the policing system has changed from then to now.
This shows that there is many different reasons as to why an audience is attracted to police dramas, from relating to the characters and situations, to relating to the times they are set in as a way of how things used to be. They are also ways of showing how the way many crimes are handled, and may be seen as a secret insight on how situations to do with crime are done and dealed with.
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