staedtler2018 t1_irqmxui wrote on October 10, 2022 at 8:38 AM

Reply to comment by anasui1 in what current TV shows just "don't seem to care" about women? by smesch83

> It's one of the incredibly rare recent examples where gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation has absolutely zero importance to the story.

I only skimmed this show but,

> Civil rights attorney Howard Elias is representing a black man who is accusing LAPD of police brutality, but Elias is murdered. Elias had a history of representing citizens who sue the LAPD, and the case produces racial strife in LA and elevated tension between the LAPD and citizens.

Absolutely zero importance to the show?

anasui1 t1_irqy8n8 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 11:19 AM

first of all, thanks for pointing that out. Zero may be inaccurate but

the show itself treats that particular premise (which isn't even that) as a plot element, not *THE MESSAGE*. The "racial strife" in it is just there as backdrop not because they don't give a damn about it, but because the show doesn't bash your head in with it and it's just one cog in the political machinery, used and abused for personal gain. You get asshole black cops, easily bought activists, nefarious white politicians, good ones, bad ones, grey ones, it balances all this stuff so well. And that season may very well be the best, because the mystery is almost Christiesque in its complexity. Bosch himself is of course an extraordinarily smart detective but he got some bad flaws as well. Give it a try