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We Own This City is a Meticulous (and Scathing) Look at Police Brutality and Corruption that Sometimes Gets too Bogged Down with its Message
If you have watched David Simon’s seminal The Wire- and liked it- We Own This City will probably keep you glued to the screen. The limited series is dripping with meticulous research and has a gritty, brutally honest approach to…
The Guilty is a Tense, One Location Thriller That is Powered by Jake Gyllenhaal’s Intense Performance
The Guilty was made during the pandemic, and it tries to make full use of those circumstances, setting the story in a 9–11 dispatch center where a cop races against time to save a mother and her children. Remade from…
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Tackles Problematic Aspects of Law Enforcement in Final Season to Mixed Results
Over the course of the last 8 years, Brooklyn Nine-Nine became one of the most beloved modern sitcoms due to its cast of wholesome characters and their general camaraderie. It was always going to be an uphill battle to end…
Paatal Lok: A Modern Noir Narrative Centered Around India’s Purgatory
Amazon Prime's Paatal Lok has often been compared to Sacred Games, and deservedly so. It's as much a crime thriller as a nuanced and somber study of India's downtrodden hinterlands, illuminating the injustices and hypocrisies in both Delhi and Uttar…
Unbelievable: A Gripping Narrative of Trauma, Rape Culture and Justice
Unbelievable is a new show on Netflix based on a Pulitzer winning true story from US investigative site ProPublica. The story is about a young woman from Lynnwood, Washington, who initially claimed to have been tied up and raped at…