Last Responders Sink or Swim & Searchers (preview)
Last Responders (preview) Luisa Diez of "Why You Mad" joins us to talk about the 2 part Tsunami epic that is "Sink or Swim" and "Searchers"
Last Responders (preview) Luisa Diez of "Why You Mad" joins us to talk about the 2 part Tsunami epic that is "Sink or Swim" and "Searchers"
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Right when Hen says, we're standing on a bomb, it cuts to our favorite pig, Officer Grant, who is now... And it's funny, the show does this thing too. | |
Oh, she now just found the cop. | |
I mean, the other firefighter who's pinned under the car. | |
No, no, no, no, no. | |
No, she found the looters. | |
Oh, the looters. | |
She found looters. | |
And this is the thing. | |
They do this thing where they show her to be... They kind of show what a piece of shit she is. | |
Yeah, totally. | |
But they don't do it explicitly. | |
They kind of give her some understanding. | |
So, these two guys are walking out of a house, one of them's holding a box for a surround sound, and you hear him say, like, oh, I got what I could, there's a couple silvers back there I could've grabbed, but I couldn't grab those silvers, I gotta go back. | |
And of course, they come around the corner of the van they're gonna load the box into, and she's like, freeze, suckas! | |
And she's like, you're looters! | |
And they're like, no, actually, man, we're not looters. | |
Check this out. | |
They open the box and they're saving kittens. | |
This is where the scene should have ended. | |
Yeah. | |
But she proceeds to be like, well, you're still breaking into houses. | |
This is still a film. | |
Sorry, this is still a felony. | |
It's so bad, I know. | |
You guys should have some sort of ID on you. | |
Yeah. | |
And the guy, the guy like, they do all these things you don't do when you're cops. | |
You're like holding a gunpoint. | |
The guy like unzips his shirt and he's wearing a shirt that's like, we save animals is what the shirt says. | |
She's like, look, check it out. | |
Look, we save animals. | |
And they're clearly good dudes who are saving animals. | |
And she still presses them, which is like so, so fucked up. | |
She still shakes them down. | |
And she's like, maybe leave the next one for the ASPCU or some shit. | |
Um, yeah. | |
So. | |
That scene happens, but it only makes her look bad. | |
Totally. | |
I don't know why they kept that in. | |
It makes her look bad. | |
She looks like such an asshole. | |
But I love that it makes it, like, honest about how sometimes people think that, like, a thing that's a thing is not a thing. | |
You know what I mean? | |
Like, she shouldn't have been doing that job in the first place. | |
Well, but that's, okay. | |
So can I say that that's a weird thing about her? | |
Because one of the things about her throughout the series is, like, she's a sergeant. | |
And somehow, I don't know how that, like, translates to she doesn't have a partner and she gets to drive around alone all the time. | |
Oh at one point she like she talks about she's like she's like oh no I made captain sergeant leader yeah I became a sergeant so I don't have to have a partner yeah I don't like having partners exactly so that's a whole nother that's a whole other thing so she's like this person in the LAPD who gets to drive around on the car on her own and she's like a boss but nobody's her boss but she fucking decides what to pay attention to so then the fact that | |
You, the important sergeant who doesn't have to deal with things, you mistook some kitten-saving people for being thieves. | |
I see how that makes her look bad, but then it's so confusing to the whole arc of what the show is trying to do. | |
Exactly, which is make her look good. | |
Yes, exactly. | |
So that's what I don't get. | |
I feel like it's like a good nod to ACAB people of like being like, yeah, they fuck up sometimes. | |
But it's supposed to be. | |
But unfortunately, the way they do this, this storyline is very much like, listen, fellas, I understand you're doing what you're doing, but don't you understand why I feel this way? | |
That's totally the whole thing. | |
You're right. | |
No. | |
And there is also there's also the fact of like, |