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Old 06-30-2011, 16:46   #12
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Originally Posted by Sigaba View Post
I saw the rebroadcast of the pilot episode last night. I found the characters and story compelling.

My own take is that the show is about a guy learning that operating with a badly damaged moral compass as a youth has long reaching consequences when one enters adulthood. He seems to possess already the tragic knowledge that his past is inescapable. (And by tragic, I mean in the classical sense, not the way the word is used today.)

In many ways, the show's basic premise is fitting metaphor for America in the late twentieth/early twenty first century.

More generally, notwithstanding the poison of most reality shows--I am of the view that we're in a golden age of television.

YMMV.
I don't quit see that. So he goes from selling drugs and being paid to cheat on tests to lying about his background to his employer to keep his job and he is enabled to do so by another lawyer who's motto is 'the end justifies the means'.
Great transformation from felony to just misdemeanor I guess.
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