Reel Politik Podcast

Episode 188 - If He's Balding, It's Comedy. If He's Bald, It's Drama. (UNLOCKED)

02.23.2021 - By Reel PolitikPlay

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in the RP debut of new producer Sarah Sahim (@hikikonormie on Twitter), Sarah produces a Jack-Yair-Geraint conversation on seminal early-00s cop drama The Shield, a show that lived and died on the razor's edge of hot-button issues like police brutality, the blue wall of silence, political ladder-climbing, repressed homosexuality and, most importantly, baldness. Embracing our melt roots, we present two separate readings of Charlie Brooker's contemporaneous reviews of the show. All in all, it gets a fairly glowing appraisal.

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