I try to watch this show to see locations I recognize, but it gets harder every week because there are so few actual "good guys."
The criminals are scummy and violent, but the US Marshalls aren't much better. They're human enough with each other, but with everyone else, they come across as macho, arrogant, and too quick to use violence of their own. Annie Frost sometimes shows her human side with frightened witnesses or victims, but usually only after she's yelled unnecessarily and shoved her badge down too many throats. In Part 2 of "Narco," Jimmy Godfrey and most of his team were too ready to ignore procedure and break laws to get what they want. And it was ironic to hear Marco Martinez use torture as an example of what made a particular drug lord evil when he was talking to a partner who'd just come from torturing that same drug lord to get information.
Maybe this show appeals to the primitive people who endorse torture as a legitimate tool and who believe in the "whatever it takes to get the job done" approach to law enforcement, but those people should not be encouraged.
A cop show doesn't work if the cops are just as corrupt as the people they're chasing.
The criminals are scummy and violent, but the US Marshalls aren't much better. They're human enough with each other, but with everyone else, they come across as macho, arrogant, and too quick to use violence of their own. Annie Frost sometimes shows her human side with frightened witnesses or victims, but usually only after she's yelled unnecessarily and shoved her badge down too many throats. In Part 2 of "Narco," Jimmy Godfrey and most of his team were too ready to ignore procedure and break laws to get what they want. And it was ironic to hear Marco Martinez use torture as an example of what made a particular drug lord evil when he was talking to a partner who'd just come from torturing that same drug lord to get information.
Maybe this show appeals to the primitive people who endorse torture as a legitimate tool and who believe in the "whatever it takes to get the job done" approach to law enforcement, but those people should not be encouraged.
A cop show doesn't work if the cops are just as corrupt as the people they're chasing.