I want to start off, if you could, by talking about the ways in which this episode completely lies about barrel form. I've always been a fan of the show and just, you know, from an entertainment standpoint, it has been a very successful show. The main ingredient that the original has and that the others like they stray away from, but they keep is this ripped from the headlines formula.
Five days before the midterm elections, the long-running NBC staple removed all subtlety and character work and explicitly lobbied against bail reform in a ham-fisted, boring slog of an episode. With guest Juwan J. Holmes.