| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
As in Shakespeare, the characters here are so well-written that they all speak from their own point-of-view. One wonders why British tv is so poor currently. The answer, of course, is that the latter is frightened to address the issues faced by Britain, in the same way that British Whites are frightened to understand the Institutional Racism (IR) behind last summer's UK riots.
This cop show is not about good and evil, but about the relationship between economics and politics - and about the way in which this can negatively effect democracy. The importance of the story itself is so great that important characters get killed despite their popularity; making the drama as unpredictable as it is believable.
Despite the variable quality of the actors, this series is very politically-realistic - rather than politically-correct. Whites are shown as lazy beneficiaries of IR; while Blacks must work hard to surmount the obstacles created by IR. This makes the show popular with Blacks, but (apparently) racist to Whites. This is reflected in the fact that the Black actors are uniformly-superb - especially the outstanding ones playing the younger street thugs - and by a Black audience that understands what is being presented (as the White one does not).
The urban decay is shown to be a consequence of a White definition of community that is based on money - with no real sense of empathy and affinity. The lack of help from a White Federal Government is inevitable given the White desire to ensure poor Blacks stay poor, so that they never become economic competition for Whites.
The self-contradiction is that such White supremacy is more expensive than diversity, since keeping Blacks in prison is far more expensive than encouraging them to be better citizens. Like the racial slavery that preceded it (abolished because it meant little work for poor Whites), present-day Whites still want to waste money inappropriately-asserting themselves by oppressing Blacks.
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