[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Some argue that LA corruption was played out once Chinatown set the standard, then LA Confidential set it again. I found it interesting to see a narrative that moved the corruption up into a more modern setting, with more modern interests.

Yeah you have to go somewhere with the corruption story. Season 2 was so disjointed it was hard to see the point.

The only points that made me go "hmm" was the fact the main trigger point of the story was the Rodney King riots which caused ripple effects that got Frank, Velcoro and Woodrugh killed and Bezerides effectively exiled.

Beyond that it just seemed to me like a series of Aespo Fables that were meant to make a modern US audience look at itself in a mirror through vignettes. Velcoro being pissed off with life because he was pissed about raising a rapist's child and being cinched up by a savvy upstart mafioso. Semyon, the philosophizing crime boss chasing the American dream through leveraging lower-level illicit acts into being a land mogul, seems to symbolize that there probably isn't a lot of difference between those in history who didn't have his origins but are still no more benign nor any more ethical ethical than Frank.

Then you have Bezerides and Woodrugh whose fables seem a bit more obvious.