Interesting at first glance gloomy evocative procedural thriller trying to be Seattles answer to The Wire. Likable cast. But boy howdy it is pathetic a trope-a-riffic slog, like when Alan Alda and Mike Farrell started writing and directing episodes of MASH. If there was a social problem ofrom the headlines when this series came out, it's in here and little by little the melodrama takes over as all the various subplots and subtexts walk all over each other. It's exhausting. And that's only half way through season one.
-Corrupt power players v the idealistic and gifted do gooder in a mayoral election with implications for larger political machinations. And everyone obviously suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder, because its Seattle, where when it rains, firehose rivulets drain down the window panes. Oh Boy.
-jurisdictional fights between the overworked hassled good guys ( local pd) v the feds(fbi) because terrorism -overstepped boundaries between students and faculty -overstepped boundaries in police civil service that prevent a wedding and a detective from retiring and moving because you gotta train the rookie and yoyr supervisor still has your separation paperwork. And you know police unions aren't at all effective. This is the initial problem that sets in motion everything else in the serial telling.
-fear of islam and immigrants -those lost skater punks in chuck taylors and flannel shirts -drugs and teenagers -social media and teenagers -teenagers and sex -politics and sex, especially in expensive glass offices -hidden pasts/hidden agendas -single mothers in the work place and the struggle to keep a man, keep the kids -problems with the working man the unions and the waterfront -serial killers and or terrorism and or sex trafficking -The Polish Mob -Political campaign professionals are amoral assholes -Dry drunks and 12 steps.
Hasn't aged well in a post wokeist q pilled kinda world.
-Corrupt power players v the idealistic and gifted do gooder in a mayoral election with implications for larger political machinations. And everyone obviously suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder, because its Seattle, where when it rains, firehose rivulets drain down the window panes. Oh Boy.
-jurisdictional fights between the overworked hassled good guys ( local pd) v the feds(fbi) because terrorism -overstepped boundaries between students and faculty -overstepped boundaries in police civil service that prevent a wedding and a detective from retiring and moving because you gotta train the rookie and yoyr supervisor still has your separation paperwork. And you know police unions aren't at all effective. This is the initial problem that sets in motion everything else in the serial telling.
-fear of islam and immigrants -those lost skater punks in chuck taylors and flannel shirts -drugs and teenagers -social media and teenagers -teenagers and sex -politics and sex, especially in expensive glass offices -hidden pasts/hidden agendas -single mothers in the work place and the struggle to keep a man, keep the kids -problems with the working man the unions and the waterfront -serial killers and or terrorism and or sex trafficking -The Polish Mob -Political campaign professionals are amoral assholes -Dry drunks and 12 steps.
Hasn't aged well in a post wokeist q pilled kinda world.