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Apple TV+’s ‘Criminal Record’ Is a Brilliantly Twisted Crime Drama With Race and Legacy at the Center: TV Review


Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo play a haunting game of cat and mouse in Apple TV+'s police crime drama "Criminal Record."

Deciding to play by the Detective Chief Inspector’s rules, June begins positing herself to get close to him while reaching out to Errol’s lawyer, Sonya Singh (Aysha Kala) and mother, Doris Mathis (Cathy Tyson). Though “Criminal Record” is just eight hours long, it is stuffed full of characters and storylines that could have been overly complex and convoluted, but Rutman and co-directors Jim Loach and Shaun James Grant never drop the ball. But, as she toils to link the caller to Errol’s case, she wades through a cesspool of intolerance that has seeped into the police force and the perspectives of Black and brown immigrants who live under the terror of white supremacy and constant othering.

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