This series is one I did not miss each week. Fine cast headed up by Edward Burns and Michael Rapaport. Supporting roles filled by excellent actors who fit their characters to a T. Multiple story lines that all worked. Excellent writing, so the dialogue is crisp and true.
The show looks at the problems of policing vice, the "soft" crimes of human appetite and weakness that trouble every society. In 1960s New York, the approach was, keep it controlled and everybody does well, including vice cops.
But then human appetite and weakness cause it all to begin to slip out of control, and we see the drama of cops and criminals trying right the balance so their comfortable but always dangerous worlds do not implode...in the process destroying their families and those they love.
The final episode was the weakest of the ten, so I expect Burns didn't feel the need for a crash-bang ending to the fascinating first season. He'll pick up the story next year.
If there is a next year, which I sincerely hope there is. Nothing on TV in the gritty, crime category is as compelling as "Public Morals."
"Justified" ended last year, "Public Morals" fills the bill.
The show looks at the problems of policing vice, the "soft" crimes of human appetite and weakness that trouble every society. In 1960s New York, the approach was, keep it controlled and everybody does well, including vice cops.
But then human appetite and weakness cause it all to begin to slip out of control, and we see the drama of cops and criminals trying right the balance so their comfortable but always dangerous worlds do not implode...in the process destroying their families and those they love.
The final episode was the weakest of the ten, so I expect Burns didn't feel the need for a crash-bang ending to the fascinating first season. He'll pick up the story next year.
If there is a next year, which I sincerely hope there is. Nothing on TV in the gritty, crime category is as compelling as "Public Morals."
"Justified" ended last year, "Public Morals" fills the bill.