PAW Patrol's Dark Secret, Explained
Skip Intro2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2022–2024
commentary · general · evergreen · 2022–2024 on HN
A long video essay by Skip Intro asking what vision of policing the kids' show PAW Patrol suggests. It mixes comedy with serious critique and features guest voices.
Recommended as a funny but serious critique of the show's portrayal of authority and policing.
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3 comments from Hacker News
I think you will enjoy this video breakdown from Skip Intro: ▶ this video It’s a superb video essay and absolutely worth the watch! But to be clear, it’s also playing into the meme that paw patrol is copaganda, so take it as a mix of comedy and serious analysis :) The gist of the video is that, while paw patrol is not copaganda, it is problematic for parallel reasons. It’s also a terrible tv show as you noted.
Paw Patrol is so shit, I had to study it in my undergrad forensic psychology course: link And if you can’t be bothered reading an academic journal about it, this YouTube video really emphasises the issues quite well: ▶ this video
Related: PAW Patrol's Dark Secret, Explained - Skip Intro > PAW Patrol is a TV show for kids. It's very popular, so we might as well ask: "What vision of policing does it suggest?" PAW Patrol is also a very bad TV show. ▶ this video