What in 2019 is the equivalent of the nuclear standoff between the Americans and the Russians? It is race and the police, speculates Damon Lindelof, Executive Producer of HBO's Watchmen.
A crime novel with a difference, this one centers on murders in a vacation town that appear to take on racial significance going back to World War Two and a segregated, elite military command.
To understand the significance of Ozark it must be considered in the context of a proliferation of series about the cartels, which are indelibly tied to current US-Mexican border policy and attitudes to race in the US.
Even amid the racial turmoil of 2014, we are making progress.
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