Reviews

Suitably bleak with misplaced sympathy and a fake minor character.

Good to see a police show that is bleak and dark due to the tiresome daily (nightly) routine.

The copper being a kind of simp (a "mug") for a grimy, drug addicted piece of trash does not make sense, especially for his claim that he did something "good." He obviously did not.

The weaselly drug dealer with dirty curly hair is about the least intimidating criminal that could be encountered, yet he constantly gets away with making verbal threats to the copper.

Even so, all that might reasonably flow together for the type of show it is. But then a fake minor character--a gossipy diversity hire--is ridiculously out of place and takes away from the way the show develops.

The beginning foretold a weaker episode.

Members of the Sackler family were firmly and unflinchingly devoted to their JEWISH identity.

Yet, this particular episode somehow emphasized a flashback in which some Sacklers enthusiastically and non-sarcastically proclaimed "Merry Christmas" to each other for no apparent reason in a private setting.

Purdue was correct that the real problem was the miserable, sniveling junkies. Purdue's motivation was questionable at best, but their conclusion was correct. The conclusion would have been easy to insist on had their greed not prompted them to give a full denial under oath.

Take a pill found under the stove. If that is what it takes. Haha. Maybe Glen should have noticed that he might have been developing a problem.

Unknown to Glen, his stepson acted as a sneaky little dirt ball doing some thieving to impress some trashy "friends."

Glen's story is amusing (in a tragic way, obviously). And it is especially important due to the annoying character Edie ensuring she remains the most dislikable individual in the show.

On top of everything else, time was wasted to show Edie visiting her brother in prison. Which seemed irrelevant and out of place regarding the flow of the story. Even Edie's brother seems to dislike her.

A Shock to the System

The theme seems to be weak minded police officers. A feminine male who stands by while his colleagues are attacked, presumably while he daydreams about older men. A joyless, pothead female. And a male who prefers overeating to fitness.

Within a system that considers self defense to be "murder."

Red Pete is weird, but somewhat interesting in that he wants to use chemistry to ensure people have fun.

Tilly is a decent old woman who reached a level of stress that demanded she defend herself. According to the old saying: When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

The generally interesting theme is reduced in quality by weak moments, some of which seem cartoonish.

It is good to think of issues beyond cliched ideas of good and evil and to have a character (Charles) who sees purpose in his work regardless of the people thinking (at least initially) that the result is evil.

There is a general lack of coherence and Charles' predictive ability is ridiculously overpowered, as if he sometimes is parody of a villain/amoral actor. Cowles is a weak, ridiculously stereotyped character.

The weak moments are VERY distracting. The car chase scenes (mostly featuring Cowles) are not even worthy of a childish action movie. The clear, slow motion of a hollow point bullet going directly through a man's body with no change in its structure is something that should only be seen in a cartoon.

Pudmuh realized caring for babies is "hard." "This is hard," she said. It only took a little crying from twins to cause her to feel unable to handle the situation. Her vain, frivolous fertility plan led to that exact situation, but it is doubtful she will take the time to reflect on her vanity and frivolity.

The ridiculous dolls used for the babies might get viewers' attention, but in a negative way. Ugly and pathetic. Surely more effort could have been made. Optimistically, it could be hoped the dolls are a metaphor for the fake and pathetic personality of Pudmuh, as well as those who coddle her.

Ridiculously weak episode that purposely avoids realism, probably to promote a tired, false socio-political narrative. Rita was in no way helpless or required to endure Paul's nonsense, unless she lied about their being a restraining order (which seems unlikely). Paul would have been arrested upon approaching her.

This is the weakest filler episode of Season 9. It seems there was an attempt to add some depth to the shallow and vapid Atwater by making him gullible and overly simpy/sympathetic to a con artist. It did not work.

An attention seeker got what she wanted: Katie had a reasonably large audience and she fell from the roof. Typical mia. A middle class girl with an easy life--except for strange, argumentative parents giving her first world problems--thought vomiting and trying to frighten people would make her have a fairy tale life.

Apparently, soft South Asian kids can effectively extort adult professionals with idle threats and thin tree branches. The "gangs" seem as threatening as a Girl Scout troop.

One of the best episodes to this point. It exemplifies the point of a privileged individual being enabled by her middle class family .Other than her addictions, Cristy's family need to address the possibility she has Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

James' parents needed an intervention. It was surprising how proud they were that they sat their smoking in front of their little grandson, probably in an attempt to make him ill. They encouraged the boy's mother to smoke in front of the boy as well. They were no better than any heroin addict.

"White" is purposely misleading in the episode title. Liz often was able to make connections with the men involved due to her being ethnically Jewish. Some--like Rosan--share her ethnicity and some--like Shultz--dedicated their careers to the Jewish people. Give some credit.

It now is established there are no likable people involved in the story. Aside from the obvious issue of Liz being a scammer and Sunny being portrayed as creepy, some minor characters were portrayed in a way that captured what is thought about them. For example: Everyone knows Larry Ellison is an overrated dbag, but this episode showed him as he is imagined by his critics.

The problem with the episode is that is appears--at least at this point--to be attempting to make Liz a sympathetic young woman who was far too hopeful for her own good (instead of the scammer she is).

A good start but a weak ending. Hailey's do-gooding went wrong, which gave an interesting (by PD's standard) perspective. The later scene of struggling with the criminal and having to save him (again) was weak and unimaginative.

It is tiresome that an old, worn out cop like Hailey is depicted as overpowering an aggressive male who is willing to assault, rape, and murder. It is ridiculous that he again fell into water unconscious and drowning, for Hailey to save. A little more effort at writing could have made it a good episode.

The subject of this episode is an male who exaggerated his speech and said, "I'm definitely a THICK b---- with a few extra Cs." It is beyond the limit of endurance.