Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-27 (Sunday)

On Apr 28, 2025 at 9:24:50 AM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

The Equalizer - "Acceptance" - I have some major issues with episode.
The episode opens with the police hearing gun shots and then arresting a
man they found near a dead body.  The man is screaming he's innocent,
and later it is revealed there is no footage of the shooting, and the
man has no gunshot residue on him, so he's released.  But the man's
*defense attorney* goes to his brother, who is a police detective and
friends with the Equalizer to complain that he thinks his client is
actually guilty, and if it's revealed his client is guilty it will hurt
his reputation.  In what universe is a defense attorney's reputation
hurt because a man he briefly represented turns out to be a criminal?
There wasn't even a trial, since there was zero evidence of the man's
guilt, they let him go.  How is this the defense attorney's fault?  He
would have been released regardless.  And another are you kidding me
moment came when the Equalizer shoots a man in front of a room full of
people, including a police captain, and is then allowed to just walk
away.  Even if it's a clean shooting, do you really just get to leave?
They don't even know what her name is.  I'm pretty sure the news media
who was there covering the event is going to take notice and ask
questions about the unnamed woman who shot a man then was allowed to
just walk away.

Like most shows of this nature, this one has been becoming more cartoonish and
ridiculous with each subsequent episode.