But the show’s sophistication is present in more than how its characters talk to one another — it’s in why they talk to certain people the way they do. On a show like Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof’s Mrs. Davis, the main character’s occupation as a nun, as clergy for the Roman Catholic Church, is treated as a quirky detail, an excuse for running around having wacky adventures in a fun costume, and the setup for an admittedly very surprising and funny twist — but that’s it. The fact that being a part of the structure of a specific religion has a specific political valence goes completely unremarked upon.
Not so here. Much to my surprise and delight, much of this episode of Fatal Attraction (“The Dillingers”) explores how poorly people treat Dan and Mike in the present, not because they’re a disgraced ex-DA and ex-cop respectively, but because they were ever a DA and a cop at all. These are political jobs, and politics have real-world consequences on real people’s lives, and people justifiably hate them for that, and Dan and Mike are not excepted simply because they’re the main characters, or because they’re played by actors we like.
I reviewed this week’s episode of Fatal Attraction, which is very good, for Decider.
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