I side with everyone else here who gets fed up with the incessant lecturing and moralizing by Quincy, to the detriment of the crime solving the show is supposed to depict. I blame this on Jack Klugman's seizing control of the show and ousting Creator & Producer Glen Larson, whose focus was on entertainment for the viewing public. Interestingly, hollywood has only gotten much worse over the years. Viewer entertainment is way down on the list of what they want to present: It falls well below casting overly diverse actors, showcasing alternate lifestyles, and presenting the writer's leftist views as the the only right answer to everything. However, I admit this show did interest me. Unlike others, I haven't seen Ordinary People in many years, so it did not affect my perception of the show. Everyone faces death in their family at one time or another, and the sudden disintegration of the family sadly reminded me of when my father suddenly died, my siblings were grieving, and we were quarreling over matters as we never had before.
One reviewer mentioned a hazing incident in Florida, and since people love to make out that everyone who lives in Florida is an idiot, I wanted to point this out: Florida has one of the toughest hazing laws in the nation. In 2005, Florida passed the Chad Meredith Act, for a U of of M student who drowned in a hazing death in 2001. Governor Jeb Bush signed the law. The law made hazing a 1st-degree misdemeanor and a 3rd-degree felony if a victim was seriously injured or died. Then, in 2019, the Florida Legislature unanimously passed Andrew's law which strengthened the 2005 law after an FSU student died from a 0.447 blood-alcohol level from drinking an entire fifth of Wild Turkey bourbon. Governor DeSantis signed the law. Among other things, the 2019 law closes some loopholes from the first law and provides for prosecution of hazing that causes permanent damage, including holding fraternity leaders criminally liable for any hazing that occurs under their watch, even if they weren't present. Other states have made changes as well. So, preachiness aside, Quincy was actually making a valid point.
