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Samuel K. (Solvanda)
Reviewed on 10/23/2018...

Three part British crime drama first broadcast in 2012. Wow, this is one of the most fantastic things I've watched in quite a while. A hard-hitting, gloom-ridden affair tackling unhappy, unsettling subjects. Absolutely stellar scripting by playwright Tony Marchant, deeply detailed and plausible. And the acting is spot on, not a weak bit throughout.

Public Enemies highlights the demoralizing racket of the bureaucratic system in place. The legal, the police, the probative, and societal all pushing against the presumption of innocence. Whatever season of Goodwill, if there ever was one, is over. And there are multiple innocents in this series who are the ones getting shredded and mauled by it. I've said it many time before: there is very little justice in this world. There are some positive points which occur here at the end though, so it's not all soul-stripping.