And for those with religious sensitivities, a blasphemy one as well.

This is a contemporary drama and contains language and prevailing attitudes of the time, which some viewers may find offensive and downright irritating as well as totally unnecessary and having no part in the plot whatsoever.

Are all American families like this? Parents who use profanities in front of their children and during family situations.

Do they all have psychological issues and profane and disrespectful and obnoxious adolescents as children?

The language in this production is a disgrace.

As for the story, well, it was too fragmented and just not cogent.

The viewer kept getting set up with new suspects, but instead of letting them hang until the end they were resolved in double quick time and moved on to the next one. Totally implausible.

Everything seemed to be resolved at the beginning of the final episode, but with 70minutes still to run the viewer knows there is more to come and they have been set up again.

As for Mare, apart from the mandatory psychological issues that female detectives seem to have these days, how many rules and laws does she have to break before being prosecuted?

There was no mention of any recriminations for her involvement in a fatal shootout which was the result of her ignoring explicit orders while on suspension.

There were a plethora of checkboxes ticked. The same sex relationships had no bearing on anything, apart from yet another breakdown of the family dynamic.

With all the culture correction prevalent these days and the portrayed culture in the drama, somebody needs to a long hard look at the second amendment.