[litoorachure]

Oh, this sounds like fun. It depends on how you define 'rural', but off the top of my head:

Parks & Recreation, Schitt's Creek, Breaking Bad, Ozark, Sons of Anarchy, Dallas, and that's without even looking at the Discovery Channel.

IMO we need to talk to each other more if we want to understand each other better, though. Not through dehumanizing screens, but in person and in good faith. When was the last time you had a meaningful conversation with a stranger in a train, airport, store etc?

[philwelch]

Breaking Bad takes place in Albuquerque and I’m pretty sure Dallas takes place in Dallas. Those are cities.

[litoorachure]

Yeah, they're not perfect examples, but those shows' characters live in the suburbs and spend most of their time even farther afield. The cities seem to serve as somewhat jarring juxtapositions to the places where the action and drama occur.

[philwelch]

Most people in American metropolitan areas live in suburbs. Suburbs are not rural.

[watwut]

Dallas is not city show. They live in houses in the middle of nowhere. They are outside all the time. Like, you have to read wiki to know Dallas is city.