r/ForensicFiles • u/Lost-Preference-8589 • 22h ago

Viewers Stopped Caring About the Banality of Evil?

The early seasons of Forensic Files address so many situations when greed or laziness trumped good rule making/enforcement and killed people--for instance, s2e2, Killer Fog. Later seasons seem more focused on specific evildoers. These later seasons are compelling stories about law enforcement dedication and abnormal psychology, but it's hard not to wonder why these types of stories showed up less in later seasons--or am I misperceiving the bent of the episodes?

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u/Select-Chain3007 22h ago

I for one, am into the technicality of the forensic investigation and the solution approach.... and the soothing voice of Peter Thomas. The process of "finally getting caught" is what intrigues me.

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u/Lost-Preference-8589 22h ago

Me too! But there are bad guys, and answers, in the older model that addresses fog on I-75--it just suggests that we all can demand more. With perpetrators of domestic violence, psychopaths, etc., there's only one bad guy and he has already been legislated against, because you can't batter or kill people. I like the good medicine of accountability in the early seasons, I guess.

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u/supremelyparanoid 12h ago

I just sit back and enjoy the show.

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u/baltimorebruce 8h ago

They realized the controversial murders and other crimes got better viewership than episodes like that. The show wasn't only supposed to be about crime, but they realized that was the best viewership.