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Charlie Cale is not a cop.
Shes an ordinary woman with an extraordinary extrasensory ability just trying to get by.
When making a show about crime and punishment, is there any way to avoidmaking copaganda?
Thats one mysteryPoker Facehasnt quite solved.
(Note that word choice.)
Youre not a cop, the sheriff says.
Their virtue emboldens Charlie as an avenger: Who will stand up for these wronged but her?
The story is tidily wrapped up with handcuffs and punishment offscreen but not out of mind.
In The Night Shift, the murderer Charlie confronts sneers at her, Youre not a cop.
Youre just some woman … a person of interest in a bunch of deaths in Nevada.
Luca and Charlies clear partnership is what makes her claimed resistance to helping the man feel so facetious.
She might not officially wear a badge, but shes notnotdoing the job either.
To its credit,Poker Facedoes experiment with endings that provide retribution in other ways.
Episodically, these are appreciable interruptions to a pattern of abrupt the cavalrys here conclusions.
As thestrugglesofstreamingcreate a swing back tomore familiar,cop-adjacentcontent, those deviations feel all the more bold.
