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justice, but it was just as much about how communities collapse in the same way that some families do.
Season 2, about a rape involving athletes at a private high school, was predominantly a study in class-divide but left a deeper impression as a story about the lingering damage of bias and gossip. In both cases, the crimes in
were less about crime than about travesties and double standards – the inexorably punitive weight of society’s ills.
Now that Ridley has trained loyal viewers to expect a layered approach moral ambiguity,
comes across this time as a much broader story built entirely on cues, hints and nuances. Although a viewer will see a rape, a physical assault and the aftermath of a murder (at the very least), it’s difficult to get a fix on what the central crime really is this season, because there are so many laws being broken at once.
Human trafficking would be an umbrella theme: Set in North Carolina, the story focuses on the exploitation of migrant labour in farm fields as well as the plight of a teenage prostitute. Another plot to involves opioid addiction and, by episode three, there’s an additional story line about a French-speaking nanny from Africa. Each of these tales draws on
talented company of actors: Regina King, who has twice won a supporting actress Emmy for her previous roles in returns as Kimara Walters, a social worker who is losing faith in her ability to help teenage prostitutes get off the streets and find a better life.
Richard Cabral plays Isaac Castillo, who oversees the recent immigrants who agree to slave conditions to earn a pittance in the tomato fields owned by the Hesby family, whose heirs include Laurie Ann (Cherry Jones) and her brother Carson (Dallas Roberts).
Felicity Huffman plays Carson’s wife, Jeanette, who overhears details about a trailer fire on the farm that killed 15 migrant workers. Astonished that there isn’t more concern or media outrage over the deaths, Jeanette starts asking uncomfortable questions about the working conditions condoned by her in-laws. is clear about going on (in the exploitation MIG Salaz thou