Don't watch this if you can't ignore seething contempt for men. It's obvious and pervasive. Every single male character is vile.
At one point (inconsequential to the plot, so not a spoiler) the heroic lead character humiliates a man and hurts him by squeezing his testicles, simply because the man has annoyed her. Would any author expect an audience to cheer a male cop who terrified an annoying adolescent girl, then hit her a couple times and grabbed her genitals? Probably not. Indeed, if people made a show that portrayed women or blacks like this show portrays men, they'd probably never work again.
Still, the first two episodes are truly excellent and the second two are very good. In the first two, characters really seem to act for their own reasons and according to their own personalities, rather than behaving in whatever manner the plot necessitates at particular moments. In the second two, the needs of the overall plot begin to determine how people act. Worse, absurd coincidences begin taking place and the show begins to follow a lot of police-drama clichés it previously avoided. (Lead character only half- decent cop who makes any progress on case? Check. Lead character constantly arriving at dangerous scene first and going in alone? Check. And on. And on.)
When the fourth episode ends, stop watching. All the police stuff is done, and the show suddenly morphs into a Lifetime movie about a brave granny coping with sadness and pain. It adds nothing whatever to either the story or the characters because all that sadness was fully apparent to any remotely intelligent viewer in the first few episodes.
At one point (inconsequential to the plot, so not a spoiler) the heroic lead character humiliates a man and hurts him by squeezing his testicles, simply because the man has annoyed her. Would any author expect an audience to cheer a male cop who terrified an annoying adolescent girl, then hit her a couple times and grabbed her genitals? Probably not. Indeed, if people made a show that portrayed women or blacks like this show portrays men, they'd probably never work again.
Still, the first two episodes are truly excellent and the second two are very good. In the first two, characters really seem to act for their own reasons and according to their own personalities, rather than behaving in whatever manner the plot necessitates at particular moments. In the second two, the needs of the overall plot begin to determine how people act. Worse, absurd coincidences begin taking place and the show begins to follow a lot of police-drama clichés it previously avoided. (Lead character only half- decent cop who makes any progress on case? Check. Lead character constantly arriving at dangerous scene first and going in alone? Check. And on. And on.)
When the fourth episode ends, stop watching. All the police stuff is done, and the show suddenly morphs into a Lifetime movie about a brave granny coping with sadness and pain. It adds nothing whatever to either the story or the characters because all that sadness was fully apparent to any remotely intelligent viewer in the first few episodes.