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The D.A.s office, they believe, has been a major contributor to the systemic inequality in Philadelphia.
Someones finally going to do thingsdifferently.
Krasners reputation as a reformer is burnished pretty quickly by his righteous (perhaps a touch gleeful?)
But part of that depiction includes spending time with people who truly believe hes wrong.
He has immense power to incarcerate people and doesnt believe in the social benefit of incarceration.
Krasner is a fascinating subject because hes an ideologue taking on a role almost perfectly opposed to his ideals.
Its so compelling to watch Krasner clean house and install a whole new staff of progressive lawyers.
His team forces Krasner to realize his mistake, and he tries to do better next time.
It is almost certainly not enough.
(That last one is me.)
The show should also be viewed as a model for an entire genre of documentary storytelling.
It also reminds us that doing justice is so much harder than we may want to believe.
