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The Sentinel Season 2, Part 1
Jan. 9th, 2020 12:32 amIn this season we get a lot more worldbuilding. Usually, I love lore. I want all the lore a show can give me. With this show my reaction is more 'please stop'. Everything to do with Jim's time in Peru just gets more and more problematic as the series goes on. I'll put a pin in this issue until we get to a certain episode, but I just wanted to acknowledge that it's a thing.
This season we also see more episodes where police incompetence, abuse and lack of understanding of the communities they 'serve and protect' being plot points. Back in Season 1, Jim initially discounts a fellow officer with strong community ties and then goes back and is all 'I should have listened.'
Unlike other procedurals I've seen, police corruption is not seen as an isolated problem. One bad apple does spoil the ones around it. Usually on a cop show if they do a police abuse episode it always ends with a strong tone of 'but 99.9% of law enforcement are heros'. The Sentinel is like 'police, they catch some evil doers but they also straight up murder people sometimes and maybe they could stop?'
Out of the show's first 15 episodes, two of them deal with cops either trying or suceeding to murder people. In a 3rd episode a law enforcement officer is ordering killings. 3 out of 15 episodes is a lot.
( A look at a few episodes )
Oof, that is a lot of words and I've barely put a dent in season 2. Sorry for the heavy topics, but I noticed the really high rate of evil law enforcement and wanted to chat about it.
This season we also see more episodes where police incompetence, abuse and lack of understanding of the communities they 'serve and protect' being plot points. Back in Season 1, Jim initially discounts a fellow officer with strong community ties and then goes back and is all 'I should have listened.'
Unlike other procedurals I've seen, police corruption is not seen as an isolated problem. One bad apple does spoil the ones around it. Usually on a cop show if they do a police abuse episode it always ends with a strong tone of 'but 99.9% of law enforcement are heros'. The Sentinel is like 'police, they catch some evil doers but they also straight up murder people sometimes and maybe they could stop?'
Out of the show's first 15 episodes, two of them deal with cops either trying or suceeding to murder people. In a 3rd episode a law enforcement officer is ordering killings. 3 out of 15 episodes is a lot.
( A look at a few episodes )
Oof, that is a lot of words and I've barely put a dent in season 2. Sorry for the heavy topics, but I noticed the really high rate of evil law enforcement and wanted to chat about it.
