Seconds out for race debate
A SHOW tackling police brutality and racism might sound like screen suicide but US crime drama Seven Seconds appears to have nailed it. The Netflix series launches this week and is already the subject of heated debate. The 10-part drama explores how racial tensions explode after a white police officer camera captures, and you have to go there.” Marcella has had a tough time having been a suspect in the murder case she was trying to solve in season one as she tried to deal with the breakdown of her accidentally hits a black teenager with his car and then tries to cover it up. A trailer for the show opens with lawyer KJ Harper in a daze, haunted by victims denied justice. She says: “Even when they’re dead they’re looking at you, wanting answers.” The good news is there only five days until the show starts. marriage. Early indicators are that life doesn’t get much easier for her in season two either as the seemingly fully recovered detective soon falls back into her troubled ways.
Viewers were left frustrated after a number of mysteries were left unsolved at the end of season one, but this time we’re promised an answer to how Marcella’s blackouts started.
Expect plenty of twists and turns along the way in the drama also starring Irish actress Victoria Smurfit.
Marcella begins on UTV at 9pm tomorrow.