Ok. I just couldn’t handle this. episode 1 was too relentlessly grim. when the story is a man, and a whole neighborhood, and a nation, kind of collapsing (or being beaten – or sucked? – down) inevitably. Maybe it was also that the show looks aged. It has a kind of glossy nineties look to it. And I know things haven’t gotten better. And knowing that the terrible only got worse…

Anyway. Maybe I need to come back to this when I’m not feeling so vulnerable.