My wife and I saw Season 1 of Cross (starring Aldis Hodge) a few years ago and really enjoyed it. I didn't have time to review it then, but I thought it was fast-paced, full of twists and turns, and emotionally powerful. I liked it just as much as, if not more than, the Morgan Freeman movies in the 1990s.
We saw the first three episodes of the second season last night. It's starting as engaging and powerful as the first season, with a crucial additional ingredient: it speaks to the political turmoil currently pulling our country apart, and comes in on the ethical, democratic side on two related, front-page issues.
Those would be the Epstein files and the ICE attacks on anyone they see as not belonging in this country.
[Spoilers ahead .... ]
The new season opens with a pair of assassins killing a man disturbingly similar to Epstein on an island with middle-aged men and young female victims. It was an opening gambit that posed a vexing moral question: are Cross and company right to hunt such assassins?
Next, we have an immigrant who kills a vicious ICE officer (or whatever racist US police force), who had recently killed someone that Cross was about to subdue without violence. It will be instructive to see how Cross investigates, but the series deserves credit for correctly depicting what ICE and the Border Patrol having been doing not just near our borders, but in Minneapolis, Chicago, and cities across our country.
As was the case in the first season, there's lots of hot romance in the story, and more than one crime and criminal that Cross and his associates are looking into. Based on the first season, I'd say that no one (other than Cross) is safe in this narrative, and I'm looking very much forward to seeing how it all unfolds.
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