I Watch TV: The Equalizer
The Equalizer
In a reboot of the 80s TV show, with Edward Woodward replaced as the ex-spy turned vigilante by Queen Latifah*, playing Robyn McCall. People in New York, let down by the system, with nowhere else to turn, can find her post on the message boards and ask for help.
Updated for the 21st century, McCall has the assistance of a sniper-turned-bar-owner and her husband, a hacker who faked his own death with the aid of McCall. She has been hiding her spy past from her daughter and also her aunt (who helped raise her daughter while she was on assignment). There’s a cop who wavers between helping and hunting her, depending on how badly she broke the law and/or human decency in the last couple of episodes. And in the background is the agency who want her to come back and work for them.
Meanwhile, problem of the week as she gets to work solving murders, kidnappings and other crimes that the authorities can’t or won’t. Sometimes it’s because of corruption, other times class and race. And leaving the agency was supposed to give her more time to spend as a single mother.
Watch This: Crime, vigilantes, fun cons and fights, at least
half a thought as to causes and consequences
Don’t Watch This: People caught in the grim machinations of
criminal organisations is not fun
* With all due respect to other female action stars, none of whom I would want to be on the receiving end of a kick from, Latifah, not a small woman, looks like she could actually take a punch from the stuntmen she’s facing up to.
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