This series began very promisingly with a detective (Peter Capaldi) moonlighting as a chauffeur and regaling his clients with stories about his life in the police.
In no time at all, he becomes a completely one-dimensional character--a bad male white cop trying to prevent a black female cop from looking into a convict whom he may have unjustly imprisoned for murder. It's pretty clear from Episode 1 that he cuts corners and is not a good guy. He calls the man he put behind bars a "poor man's OJ," which rankles the black female detective.
The female detective, Cush Jumbo, is, of course, in an interracial relationship (her mother--or mother-in-law?--is white). She and her white husband argue about his "privilege." A Hispanic woman is murdered by an abusive white man, said to be a member of an extremist white group. The black female detective is at one point described as Meghan Markle because of her light skin tone. There's plenty more of this obsession with skin tone in every episode.
From the start, the male white establishment is out to get the black female detective. Eight episodes is too many for such a cliched narrative.
In no time at all, he becomes a completely one-dimensional character--a bad male white cop trying to prevent a black female cop from looking into a convict whom he may have unjustly imprisoned for murder. It's pretty clear from Episode 1 that he cuts corners and is not a good guy. He calls the man he put behind bars a "poor man's OJ," which rankles the black female detective.
The female detective, Cush Jumbo, is, of course, in an interracial relationship (her mother--or mother-in-law?--is white). She and her white husband argue about his "privilege." A Hispanic woman is murdered by an abusive white man, said to be a member of an extremist white group. The black female detective is at one point described as Meghan Markle because of her light skin tone. There's plenty more of this obsession with skin tone in every episode.
From the start, the male white establishment is out to get the black female detective. Eight episodes is too many for such a cliched narrative.