But honestly, I think a stronger actress could have been cast in the role. I don't know if the flaw is in the writing or the acting. She seems at times like two different characters. Even at their best, you could see them desperately trying to hold on. I've known a couple of alcoholic women and they never could quite pull themselves together when sober. She seemed too clean and healthy when she was sober. I only wish the KJ character here didn't clean up so good between her bouts of binge drinking. Personally, I'm all done with the male antiheros littering TV. I like Veena Sud's flawed heroines, both in The Killing and here. This was the wrong plot device if the show meant to make a really strong statement about police killings of young black males. The real-life event, murder the fictional event that drives the series, an unfortunate accident. I found that I could not draw a parallel between a real life white police officer shooting an unarmed young black man in the back with a fictional white police officer driving in a bad snowstorm, while taking a frantic call his wife is going into early labor, accidentally hitting and killing a black teen on a bike. The side roads are interesting (and contain some of the very best acting, especially from Regina King and Russell Hornsby), but they distract from the main story line. In so many episodes, the story is allowed to wander. This story arc would have been better served if it transpired over a tighter six episodes.
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