You have to love DS Dodds. He's brilliant and dogged but meek and you can strongly sympathize with him as a man who has spent his life in the company of bullies or being overlooked.
The character of McDonald, however is shrill, horrid, nasty, mean, and just a terrible person willing to walk over everyone and wipe her shoes on Dodds who then just lets it go with no apology forthcoming. She throws him under the bus multiple times in each episode.
She's written with every bad stereotype of a woman determined to succeed. It doesn't help that she's a black woman because these stereotypes are even worse for her. She treats her significant other so badly you want to call him up and plead for him to get out and find someone who cares for him and you never even see the poor guy!
The stories, so far as I've seen them, are good with interesting twists and turns but McDonald is so overbearing that it's distractingly bad.
There are the typical tropes of the mean boss who doesn't think she can do the job, is trying to push Dodds to retire early even tho he's the key to solving the crimes, and is in general, an asshole.
I watch it for the Dodds scenes, really because he's so endearing.
The character of McDonald, however is shrill, horrid, nasty, mean, and just a terrible person willing to walk over everyone and wipe her shoes on Dodds who then just lets it go with no apology forthcoming. She throws him under the bus multiple times in each episode.
She's written with every bad stereotype of a woman determined to succeed. It doesn't help that she's a black woman because these stereotypes are even worse for her. She treats her significant other so badly you want to call him up and plead for him to get out and find someone who cares for him and you never even see the poor guy!
The stories, so far as I've seen them, are good with interesting twists and turns but McDonald is so overbearing that it's distractingly bad.
There are the typical tropes of the mean boss who doesn't think she can do the job, is trying to push Dodds to retire early even tho he's the key to solving the crimes, and is in general, an asshole.
I watch it for the Dodds scenes, really because he's so endearing.