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ITV drama at its ground-breaking best. Features Harris as a detective squaring up to not just organised crime but job-impeding racism within the force.

One memorable scene has him throwing an African tribal spare and impaling a villain.

If there are few 'must see' movies with a believable Black American experience at its centre then Mudbound tops that list. Set just after World War 2, it is an honest look at everything that was, and still is, wrong about White America, but without the over-the-top indignation or pretence that change or hope is somewhere on the horizon. Director Dee Rees does a sterling job in breathing life and lending voice into its few characters and weaving the narrative around them, the immediacy of their hopes and aspirations battling against a relentlessly grim and pointless present. No cardboard characters or caricatures were hurt or created during this production. Jonathan Banks is a more than believable full-blooded hateful racist redneck and Jason Mitchell the returning Black war veteran desperately clinging to the faintest possibility of a brighter tomorrow in amongst grim, poverty inducing share-cropping of his parent's and family's existence. Despite finding a friend, comrade and confident in fellow war returnee Xxxxxx it's this relationship and subsequent revelations that brings the events in this slow-burning narrative to a head and sad more bitter than sweet conclusion. With so few meaningful 'Black people related' tales coming out of Hollywood, the Netflix vehicle should make a fair bit on milage on Mudbound and not without reason.

Have to admit this series isn't bad at all...and is about as soul- searching as TOS was designed to be. The singular story arc allows for focus on the characters and their development within that universe and along that time-line. It subtly questions Starfleet and its Prime Directive in a way last seen in the second JJ Abrams reboot, which is something TNG, DS9, Voyager or Enterprise failed to address. Discovery is far more cinematic in look, feel and progress than standard TV but it is Netflix and I'm loving the way it's unraveling in its slow burn narrative.