With new streaming cops and hospital shows, 2025 is the year that we say: Let TV be TV

Streaming this week are two shows that borrow a lot from how TV used to feel.

The theme for 2025, or at least it seems to be the case as we kickstart the year, is a rejection of how we have been watching TV for the past decade and a return to more traditional, broadcast-style TV shows of the 90s.

I will regularly connect this type of TV to the US network TV of the 90s only because that decade saw mainstream TV dramas elevated in …