'Class of '09' is an ambitious AI thriller with a great Brian Tyree Henry performance, writes judyberman
) raises in this cerebral, ambitious, but frustratingly paced tale of human fallibility and technological overreach.It takes two full episodes, out of only eight total, for Smith—who wrote every episode—to set the scene. The first sticks close to Poet, whose name is freighted with meaning. An empathetic soul, she was a psychiatric nurse when she received her invitation to apply to the Bureau, from an agent who was impressed with the gentle way she subdued a hysterical inmate.
Tayo has his own reasons for deploying an AI to not only apprehend criminals, but also prevent crime from happening. What he, a Black man, and Hour, an outsider in both the U.S. and her own family, share is experience with a justice system in which individual agents’ prejudices often work out tragically for people like themselves. Hour’s innovation promises to moderate such bias.
The success of the series will hinge on where Smith ultimately takes this idea. In the meantime, it’s his ambition—at a time when
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