It really wasn't hard to watch - quite the opposite, actually, it made me feel better. So many depictions of depression just lean into the sadness aspect of it, but you rarely see ones that demonstrate how angry it can make you. I've watched it several times over now.
It's a really interesting slow, subtle burn - you could do things like that back in the day when TV shows had twenty episodes per season - because it doesn't come right out the gate with "POLICING IS EVIL AND ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS" but sort of plants seeds at various points and lets them grow until the audience is like "wait -" Stuff like how many cast members die violently, either by their own hand or someone else's, or how the characters who come in as idealists end up self-destructing hard when they come up against the reality of how little policing has to do with actual justice, or how the characters who the audience were introduced to as loveable will suddenly come out with a line like "they wanted a war, now they've got one" or "we used to own this city" and you go OH - this is endemic, and the writers know it. (And on a lighter note, Brooklyn 99 was absolutely riffing on Braugher's role here when they wrote Holt. And this show had the first bisexual main character on American tv, which I didn't know beforehand!)
Also the whole thing is online in a google drive! So that's nice, because it is not streaming anywhere legal.
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It's a really interesting slow, subtle burn - you could do things like that back in the day when TV shows had twenty episodes per season - because it doesn't come right out the gate with "POLICING IS EVIL AND ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS" but sort of plants seeds at various points and lets them grow until the audience is like "wait -" Stuff like how many cast members die violently, either by their own hand or someone else's, or how the characters who come in as idealists end up self-destructing hard when they come up against the reality of how little policing has to do with actual justice, or how the characters who the audience were introduced to as loveable will suddenly come out with a line like "they wanted a war, now they've got one" or "we used to own this city" and you go OH - this is endemic, and the writers know it. (And on a lighter note, Brooklyn 99 was absolutely riffing on Braugher's role here when they wrote Holt. And this show had the first bisexual main character on American tv, which I didn't know beforehand!)
Also the whole thing is online in a google drive! So that's nice, because it is not streaming anywhere legal.