American Crime in its second season continues to be what it was in its first season - a brilliant, unflinching examination of American life, with all its warts. As of episode 2.6, it's easily still one of the best series ever on television.It's ugly and uncompromising, but that's the way truth often is. The revelation that Taylor is gay could have been the end of his rape story - it certainly was a stunner - but it actually is only the beginning of a much deeper, and more needed narrative. Rape aka unconsensual sex is wrong - not only morally, it's a brutal crime - regardless of whether the victim is gay or heterosexual, and regardless of the sexual orientation of the perpetrator.
Of course, many of the characters in this story don't see it that way. They assume, out of prejudice, that if a boy or man claims he was raped by a man, and the victim turns out to be gay, that this fact somehow negates the rape, or makes the act automatically consensual. If that absurd argument were true, then that would negate the myriad of heterosexual women who have been raped by heterosexual men over the millennia.
The acting, as it was in the first season, is just exceptional. Not only Connor Jessup as Taylor and Joey Pollari as his accused rapist Eric, but everyone around them and in this story gives edge-of-your-seat performances.
The default mode in American Crime is powder keg, either already lit or about to be. There are no doubt some shockers and shake-ups ahead, and I'm both looking forward to and bracing for the ride.
See also: American Crime 2.1-3: So Real, It Hurts
And see also: American Crime, American Fine ... American Crime 1.7: The Truest Love ... American Crime 1.10: The Exquisite Hazards of Timing ... American Crime Season 1 Finale: The Banality of So-Called Justice
a different kind of crime
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