S04.E14: Reckoning - S.W.A.T. - PRIMETIMER
Gosh, I wish this Imperial Duke saga would just end.
For one episode baddies, they may have cut it.
For baddies who are recurring for what are now- at least- five episodes they're now well past their expiration date.
I've said it many times before about why the Imperial Dukes are just horrible bad guys. They're one-dimensional and lack any kind of humanity. I'm not saying we have to feel sorry for them- far from it, because how could you feel sorry for people like that?- but we need to know more about them than just "they're racist POS".
Something like how each member has a story of being a victim of "social justice warriors", which explains why they hate so much. Hate just doesn't appear out of whole cloth, and you certainly don't join a murderous cult on a whim. You do it because you have a deep-seated reason, reasons that should be explored.
Instead, the show just tells us that these guys are "evil SOBs" who are "so dangerous" they could "destroy the whole city". They're just boring villain-bots placed in the episode just so SWAT would have someone to chase for the entire hour.
Yawn. They might as well run a SWAT training video instead, because that's pretty much what this exercise was.
This episode only gets a "D" because there may be something with Lee Durham, plus the subplot of Norah Fowler being recruited for a basketball game had its charming moments.
Oh, and Leroy vs. Hondo has gained another wrinkle. Though when Darryl asked Hondo about why the shop still needed cameras...well, I don't know why Hondo wouldn't just tell him they're smart to have anyway because, well, "you never know". Even though Hondo is right about short term solutions sometimes breeding longer term problems.
So, there are four episodes left...chances are, the Dukes' saga will occupy the season finale, if not simmer for the rest of the season. It's here where I hope the show resists a WWE-type swerve and have Deacon join the Dukes...that would just be too lazy, and the character would be irreparably harmed by it.
Besides, it's a better story to have "the white guy" remind the Dukes that while they may have (in a twisted sense) a legitimate gripe about "virtue signaling" and those who go too far screaming "racism", engaging in racism themselves doesn't solve the problem. It only makes it worse.
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