I finished watching it yesterday. I have some thoughts about the politics of it but to be honest I don’t have a leg to stand on because I know nothing about how majority black cities in America work.

On the non-political side, I really enjoyed the first two seasons. Season 2 in particular was the best one for me. Post that there was too much focus on politicking for my taste and I just wanted to it be over with. That Carcetti guy reminded me of Buttigieg and I found him really annoying. I knew he was gonna be a rat faced turncoat the moment I saw him. But I appreciated the focus on school aged male children even though it was depressing.

The ending was a bit disappointing for me because it essentially said nothing ever changes. The sobriety of it makes sense to me but it feels reductionist because it denies anyone the chance to make a tiny improvement and disregards qualitative changes.

Interested in hearing what you all think about it.

    • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I hadn’t thought about it hard but yeah you are right. The last season is awful. Stuff seems to happen out of nowhere. New mayor finding himself 54 mil in the hole. Marlo isn’t a new character in the season, but his gang effortlessly killing other profile gangsters on top of the whimsical killing of civilians feels just like kinda stupid. The plotline about journalism feels shoehorned in. There isn’t anything about journalism until this point and now they try to show how careerist journalists lie and the newsroom lets them and this whole thing is explained by an obsession with the pulitzer prize. It is all really bad stuff.