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61st Street (2022)
Same old garbage
If you are going to set a crime story in contemporary Chicago, how can you ignore the hundreds of homicides and shootings in the city? The producers of this show apparently can, focusing on corrupt cops railroading an innocent young black man. If the producers actually cared to portray a realistic show, the young man would be trying to protect himself from the gang elements that are shooting up the city rather than the cliched bad cops and corrupt judges.
Courtney B. Vance plays a public defender fighting for social justice, a role he has played in various guises throughout his career. Vance could play this role in his sleep as he seems to do in this series.
I had hoped this series would be realistic and deal with the issues destroying the city. Sadly, it is just the same old garbage.
Black Sails: XXXI. (2017)
Poor writing and plots have doomed this show.
I did not believe the show could get any worse than the first two episodes of season 4, but I was wrong. Episode 3 established a new low. The writers seem to be going through the motions as they present absurd, implausible situations in an attempt to build false tension. The almost endless supply of British soldiers in Nassau whose purpose is to foil the protagonists are just one of several stale plot devices used to prolong the story.
The ridiculous situations presented in the show are insulting. Woodes Rogers is depicted as some sort of superman when in reality he was a failure during his two terms as governor. His first term ended with his arrest and imprisonment, and he became ill and died shortly after he returned for a second term. His meeting with Blackbeard was inane since the two never met in real life. While I understand this is a work of fiction, when you incorporate real people in the plot some attempt at historical accuracy should be done. This was not the first time the show strayed from history, but it was the most egregious.
I enjoyed the first three seasons of Black Sails, but I will not be watching any longer. This episode was the end.