The Black Republican

I worked hard again Tuesday, a real days work, and while I had planned to continue reading We Are Lincoln Men, by David Herbert Donald, I instead decided to veg out in front of the television. Channel surfing brought me to, near the beginning of, the new Kyra Sedgewick series, The Closer.

I have always had a curiosity about Kyra, she is visually very interesting, in spite of her abnormally oversized lips. But, more than that, she usually plays interesting roles, in interesting vehicles. And I hoped this would prove to be another example.

What a disappoinment. This show is a cartoon using real actors. An absolute turn of the tables on the current actors doing cartoon voices for animated movies trend. This show skips the animation and simply puts real people into caricatures of stereotypes. All the while giving lessons on political correctness.

The thrust of the premier episode seemed to be to establish that the murder suspect is a sexually frustrated Catholic woman who is still living with her Mother as she approaches thirty. And, then, when it is revealed that the murder victim was a lesbian cross-dressing homicidal computer genius aids activist identity thief; then the important matter at hand for the writers was to insinuate that the killer, the sexually repressed Catholic virgin, was actually a lesbian as well. They accomplish portraying the killer as a lesbian by having her repeat time and time and time again that she isn't a lesbian. Thereby, employing a situation which Shakespeare coined as protesting too much, in order to paint her as exactly that which she declares, repeatedly, against being. And, this was not the only way in which the writers revealed their obcession with lesbianism.

The one character, surrounding Sedgewick's ball-busting slut who slept her way to the top and isn't done spreading it around persona, who is even remotely fleshed out is the Archie Bunkerish investigator who calls the deceased a "lesbo". The term, "lesbo", sets off Sedgewick who castrates castigates him for using "lesbo" as an abbreviation for lesbian, when she asserts it is not any such thing. Which is wrong, of course, though it may be a disparaging abbreviation for lesbian, lesbo is an abbreviation for lesbian as surely as homo was a common abbreviation for homosexual in the olden days. The writers attempt a political correctness insurgency with this one. Insurgency repelled.

The solution to the crime is provided when Sedgewick orders an underling to take the bullet recovered from the body to ballistics. What a genius idea, test the bullet, why haven't the police thought of this before (I ask sarcastically)? Sedgewick tells her brood that testing the bullet may tie it to a previous crime which may bring them to the present criminal. Voila! The deceased had shot dead a law enforcement type person decades ago, and in spite of being a computer genius who ran a major company in the industry, she did not have the common sense to dispose of the gun she had used.

Since her flight, after murdering the man, she had assumed the identity of a man, plundered ATMs for cash until she had enough to open a corporation rivaling Microsoft, and lived an affected life as an incubated eccentric man. And, from the tone of this show, her one mistake was to become involved with a Catholic, repressed lesbian, woman, and then revealing her true identity which angered and humiliated the virgin leading to homicide.

Naturally, (heavy sarcasm) the virgin had to use the gun from the old murder to kill the phony man/lesbowhackjob, (what other choice did she have?) and, thus Sedgewick had all she needed to draw out a confession to the murder, and to the woman's implied sexual preference. That is the whole story, I left out nothing.

So, to review, (according to thie writers of The Closer) being a Catholic virgin who is fooled into falling in love with a cross-dressing lesbian crook murderer proves that those who practice abstinace are lesbos.

Are they really going to have a week two for this loser show?