Shots Fired - Event Drama Series.

The new marketing spin for a drama series is EVENT DRAMA SERIES or TV DRAMA EVENT. It ain't an event it's usually a series of events like 10 episodes or more (or less in the case of Feud), but in Shots Fired case it's a ten episode wonder which has just launched on FOX in the USA.

No points for guessing the story around the title but yes shots are fired and they are fired from a black cop in the direction of an unarmed white man. Sound familiar USA?

Helen Hunt and Stephen Moyer make their returns to TV and Stephan James and Tristan Wilds are worth watching this show for alone.

Honestly another cop drama and adding race relations to it is not a fresh idea but the spin of a black cop shooting a white dude is a semi new spin.

The investigation is set up in the pilot and I expect the remaining nine episodes to have many twists and turns. I enjoyed the pilot and with almost 5 million live viewers in the USA it's done a lot better than a lot of other FOX titles this 2016-2017 season.

Shots Fired is shaping up to be like American Crime holding a mirror up to contemporary America and unfortunately it's not being made great again. Instead it's bleak and far from the Hollywood, New York and Miami images a lot outside the USA view as some kind of paradise. Paradise it is not, broken and divided it is.

I am looking forward to seeing how this plays out, Shots Fired is a mostly intelligent drama. In a world of amateur hour reality shows we should reward creatives willing to take a go on real stories, real issues.