Post by Endeavour Morse on Oct 9, 2015 14:55:53 GMT
Don't know if any of you have watched it so far, but I'm really enjoying Aquarius.
It's starring and produced by David Duchovny who plays Sam Hodiak - a detective on the LAPD in 1967 who starts out on a search for the teenage daughter of an ex-girlfriend and finds himself embroiled in the early days of Charles Manson and the Family.
It's brilliantly written and very evocative, viewing flower power and counter-culture, not to mention the Black Panther movement, from the perspective of the police. Hodiak is a WW2 veteran and very much a salute-the-flag kind of guy, but also has a sense of humour and empathy denied to the other members of his squad, who are largely corrupt meatheads with the exception of the undercover young detective from narcotics who works alongside Duchovny's character in most episodes.
It's probably dreadfully inaccurate and causing historians of Manson, the hippie movement and Richard Nixon to have kittens but compared to most of the complete drivel that gets fired this way over the Atlantic under the cop show banner it's a work of art.
If you haven't seen it, it's well worth a look.
It's starring and produced by David Duchovny who plays Sam Hodiak - a detective on the LAPD in 1967 who starts out on a search for the teenage daughter of an ex-girlfriend and finds himself embroiled in the early days of Charles Manson and the Family.
It's brilliantly written and very evocative, viewing flower power and counter-culture, not to mention the Black Panther movement, from the perspective of the police. Hodiak is a WW2 veteran and very much a salute-the-flag kind of guy, but also has a sense of humour and empathy denied to the other members of his squad, who are largely corrupt meatheads with the exception of the undercover young detective from narcotics who works alongside Duchovny's character in most episodes.
It's probably dreadfully inaccurate and causing historians of Manson, the hippie movement and Richard Nixon to have kittens but compared to most of the complete drivel that gets fired this way over the Atlantic under the cop show banner it's a work of art.
If you haven't seen it, it's well worth a look.