I don't want to be another tone-deaf white person, so I'll just say that this episode is not stretching reality, unfortunately.
8 Reviews
Same old story, sadly
drnikic4 March 2021
Important episode in a great show.
thedudebryant25 October 2018
The bigger message is so important!
sassyjacksun24 October 2018
Bad Episode in an Otherwise Great Show
joshua-kendrick2 November 2018
They crammed as much propaganda into this show as they could. It's as if they were trying to make up for lost time. It's a strategy: be as inoffensive as possible in the first run of episodes and hook viewers. After that you can shove whatever you want down their throats. I am a week behind on the show, so I will give it another chance, but there are many great shows that recognize that there is no need to get political.
Shameful.
christa-pelc14 September 2019
Why does everything have to be political? This was such a disgustingly one-sided episode. Police don't just go around shooting anybody - why didn't the show say why the boy was shot?
Awful. Shame on the producers for being manipulative.
Not The Problem
tarnishedhalotx24 October 2018
I am so sick of the sjw messages in practically every show on TV, the incorrect & misleading statistics obtained from fake news!
Police are not the problem, guns & bullets are not the problem, people's attitudes are, gun free zones are, lack of respect for authority & law are, lack of respect for life are.
Whatever happened to unbiased story telling?!?!
Come on man
srodgers1625 January 2023
We watched the first few episodes and could tolerate the non stop virtue signaling about the healthcare system and how bad Trump is because a few of the characters are actually likable but this episode is my last.
You can have a social justice message and not knock the viewer over with it like a baseball bat to the head. Such lazy writing and zero nuance just cops bad, gun owners bad, white people bad - end of story, such junk.
That's all this ever comes down to, the writers want to express their politics and they are too lazy or too devoid of talent to do it artfully. Instead they just literally have the characters parrot the talking points.
You can have a social justice message and not knock the viewer over with it like a baseball bat to the head. Such lazy writing and zero nuance just cops bad, gun owners bad, white people bad - end of story, such junk.
That's all this ever comes down to, the writers want to express their politics and they are too lazy or too devoid of talent to do it artfully. Instead they just literally have the characters parrot the talking points.
The episode veers too heavily into a controversial political realm
tbrech8 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
While some have rated this episode a 10, I couldn't because the virtue signaling era has become way too pervasive. Until this episode, I found the program interesting for a medical drama/soap opera. It would be reasonable to expect events which occurred at the time this episode was written to have an influence on the core theme. But when the writing is heavy handed or preachy I loose interest. It matters not the perspective, it matters that magic of the interplay between the characters is lost. This is not a news program. Real life is complex enough. Right now, I don't know if I will continue to watch the rest of the series if the future plots echo this episode. In addition, what is supposed to be a hollow point bullet was shown at the end. In a real situation, it would not resemble what was shown at all, nor would the main character have access to it in any stretch of the imagination because it would be in evidence. This last scene put an exclamation on my rating of 1 star.
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