61st Street

I just finished Season 2. I was captivated from the first episode in Season 1.

The ugliness of life is often hard to watch but seeing the reality of others is something we should all step into once in a while, then where we can, DO something about. The actors, all of them, were solid. Everyone believable. Mark O'Brien, Julian Parker, Courtney B Vance, Aunjanue Ellis and Andrene Ward-Hammond were stellar! Now my job is to get as many people to watch the series and hopefully take away from it what I did. Then we can all stand a little closer together to create content that helps us to question our world and create meaning.

I think the people who low-balled the rating, never lived in Chicago or, if they did, never went near Englewood, Garfield Park, or Roseland. Their 'trip through the hood' was speeding down the Dan Ryan Expressway on the way to Olympia Fields. This show, like Englewood, is real...and it has been for too many years. I write this as a middle-aged white woman, who was born-and-raised on the South Side. I worked at 26th & Cal (Cook County Court) for years, and unfortunately this show is as realistic as it gets. It's dirty, gritty and hard to watch. BUT DO NOT TURN IT OFF. I've seen cops, clerks and judges take payoffs practically in the open. Their are good and fair public servants; but there are a lot of good and honest people. This show follows it all and hopefully can initiate change.

There are a LOT of ostriches reviewing this show. They're deliberately keeping their heads in the sand and demanding to be allowed to be willfully ignorant to the systemic racism happening all around us but especially in big inner city locals where cops who are supposed to protect us ALL are being allowed to break the very rules meant to do just that.

The setting of the demolished neighborhoods, truly impoverished whole sections of cities ignored by the rest of society is horrifying but more so because it IS true to life. They look like war zones because they ARE.

This show is gonna bother me. Which is exactly what it's supposed to do for those of us who see the world for how it is. Terribly unfair to whole groups of people while others turn a blind eye to their pain.

I noticed another reviewer described this as, ' a Hollywood documentary trying to convince us that cops are corrupt and evil.'

Sorry. This is a show which explains just how corrupt and evil cops really are.

I live in NYC. I've seen cops pull the routines described in this show time and time again for decades. This show is nailing it when it comes to illustrating the truth. There's a great cast here doing stellar work. And as always, Courtney B. Vance is absolutely terrific.

The people writing negative reviews didn't grow up in the areas or conditions the series is documenting. If you're from the hood then you know all of this is true and happens far too often. Giving something a bad review when you have no real clue about the content is ridiculous. If you think cops are so good then ask yourself why do police officers call each other "rats". I know many police officers and real life and this story is portraying what actually goes on behind the piercing walls. Bad guys do bad things and other officers either participate or turn a blind eye. If you're that blind to police corruption just go do some research and find out how rampant it is. Just like politicians it's going on in every major city no question.