Post by William BrownsteinI love your comments on the show Kevin. I can't add much to what you said. The acting, storylines are so emotional in how we see things play out everyday in the news.
It's interesting that each viewer was able to take away their interpretation differently and hopefully will lead to much needed discussion. This second series would be a great teaching tool at schools. The episodes could be done in a short period of time with possibly 2 episodes each session and then have teachers guide students on their opinions and have questions answered as well. I'm thinking more of an entire school showing or special event after school hours.
Television done this lovingly and paying attention to important issues makes it so worthwhile.
My favorite show is The Good Wife and everything about that show too is first rate, from the writing to the amazing cast of actors. I'll be sad to see this series end, but it had a good run. Hopefully American Crime has more to offer and will return. Probably the best show I've seen since The Good Wife.
Just thought about this while concluding my thoughts. What we are seeing play out with Donald Trump is horrible. I said recently that he reminds me of Hitler and his frightening tactics are being compared to him more and more each passing day. The racism and especially the violence is out of hand. Trump even encourages this at his rallies. No matter what he says or does, it doesn't seem to weaken him but make him stronger.
For a number of years people have talked about a revolution in this country. What we have seen especially over the last week is ugly with the danger signs right in front of us.
A season of political corruption with it focused on events like politicians intervening with the police and victims might be interesting for a show like American Crime to take on next. If not this show, a similar drama will probably find its ways to audiences in the not too distant future. But for now the real life show Donald Trump is presenting is The Apprentice multiplied a million times and then some. What started out as what many thought as a joke can affect every single person in this country.
Anyone who doesn't see the similarities in what Trump is doing that Hitler did in Germany is brainwashed. History always REPEATS itself and this is getting very dangerous. At this point, it may be too late. I wonder if the Jews will be blamed for the economy as they always are. People are blind and we are witnessing the beginnings of a revolution in this country.
I like the Good Wife too, sorry that it is winding down.
As to Trump - wow, I'm seeing things I never thought were possible in politics. As to tying a political aspect into American Crime - I think you saw that to a slight degree in Season one and the same thing was present in how the School Board went after the principal in Season Two. Adding a Trump like figure, or a Chris Christie type figure to the equation would certainly make for a compelling story line on the effects of politics on justice. It could be very workable and watchable tv as well.
I'm not so sure Trump is a harbinger of the revolution as he is the culmination of years of politicians lying to people about change then doing nothing when elected. Reagan comes to mind. When he ran in 1976 and 1980 he promised to put prayer back into schools - first thing! After he took office a bill was introduced to start a constitutional amendment to do that and it died. Reagan offered NO support whatsoever while the debate was going on which surprised a lot of people, but the reality was he didn't care about it at all. It was just a means to get votes. That has been replayed a thousand times since then on both sides of the aisle and voters buy the latest version every time. Trump is speaking to the frustration of politicians not doing what they claimed they would do. Of course the man is a con man and a fraud - his so called net worth seems to be bogus too, given he got tax breaks in NYC designed for middle income residents. Yet people fall for the big con (note The Sting reference!).
The violence we are seeing does make me think that this is what it was like in Germany during the rise of Hitler. Do you remember a tv series called Holocaust on NBC? It ran in the 70s or early 80's - Meryl Streep was actually in it in a supporting role so it goes back a ways. In that show a middle class German family - Jewish - that refused to leave Germany because the "Country of Mozart, Goethe, . . . etc." would not allow someone like Hitler to come to power. Opps. Now in America, here we are. This is a direct result of right wing media, Fox, Rush, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Imus and the whole hateful lot. They have built a fire and they are loosing control of it.
It seems Muslims have replaced Jews as the new scapegoats of history, but don't kid yourself - this is a whites only revolution - it is getting ugly. More than I ever imagined it could.