The FX series Class Of '09 smartly layers the past, present, and future in telling this story. Introducing viewers to only two-time frames in the first five minutes made everything that happened in these first two episodes easier to absorb. Kate Mara's performance as Poet is so good that you are (easily) pulled into the third time frame (Present 2023) without it feeling disruptive. You could … see more...

Story summarized on paper probably looks good, and if they have just keeped focus of the show on main core of the story it would be above average. But unfortunately they figured that there could be two stories to tell. One about dangers of considering everyone a criminal and dangers of AI decisioning (at least something in those lines). The other story is about woman in danger, black people in… see more...