This series showed a lot of promise. The previous episodes expanded on the premises first put forth in the P.K. Dick nook and earlier Total Recall 2070 cable TV series. I was looking forward to more episodes.
But this episode took the all too familiar "cop as judge, jury and executioner" angle so reminiscent of so many threadbare yet still popular American TV crime dramas, e.g., Agent Gibbs in NCIS, Agent Callan in NCIS:LA, Detective Benson in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Agent Greenaway in Criminal Minds, and far too many other such shows. Yet again we see a supposedly "good" cop "forced" to do bad things (in this episode murder a disarmed suspect) for the sake of expediency/public safety coupled with a lack of faith in the judicial system he is supposedly sworn to uphold and enforce. The episode was enough to make me no longer interested in any future viewing of the series. If I want to see bad people doing bad things to other bad people, I'll pull out a Tarentino movie.
This kind of "law enforcement" may appeal to those who take the simplistic view of vengeance as justice. In fact, such depictions only serve to insult and denigrate the honest and honorable efforts of what I hope are the majority of real life law enforcement professionals.
This series had promise. I doubt that it will last.
But this episode took the all too familiar "cop as judge, jury and executioner" angle so reminiscent of so many threadbare yet still popular American TV crime dramas, e.g., Agent Gibbs in NCIS, Agent Callan in NCIS:LA, Detective Benson in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Agent Greenaway in Criminal Minds, and far too many other such shows. Yet again we see a supposedly "good" cop "forced" to do bad things (in this episode murder a disarmed suspect) for the sake of expediency/public safety coupled with a lack of faith in the judicial system he is supposedly sworn to uphold and enforce. The episode was enough to make me no longer interested in any future viewing of the series. If I want to see bad people doing bad things to other bad people, I'll pull out a Tarentino movie.
This kind of "law enforcement" may appeal to those who take the simplistic view of vengeance as justice. In fact, such depictions only serve to insult and denigrate the honest and honorable efforts of what I hope are the majority of real life law enforcement professionals.
This series had promise. I doubt that it will last.