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"Sins of the City" ran on the USA Network (in the United States) briefly in the late summer of 1998. It was a good attempt to portray the hard-boiled lonely private detective as something of a voyeur who could not fit into society yet managed to use his powers of secret observation to some social good. The setting for the show was Miami, FL, and this city's Caribbean and Latin cultures were used to good effect to give the show a slightly exotic flavor. Marcus Graham played well the lead character with a certain amount of suppressed angst that spoke to his inner struggles not to become a complete degenerate as he followed people around (in a motley collection 1980s vintage Ford Mustangs) and watched them doing things that they should not be doing. I would provide an example or two, but it has been five years since I watched the show, so I am a tad weak on specifics. The title though does include the word "Sins" so the reader may infer that illicit sex, drugs, murder, blackmail and generic foul play were the order of the day. Granted, these crimes have been the fodder for detective stories for a century, but cast against a backdrop of leisure, wealth, and privilege, they speak to the moral shortcomings of a modern society that is a victim of its own success. It is too bad that the show did not find an audience quickly enough to satisfy advertisers or network executives. It was just getting warmed up to its themes of moral decline when it was yanked from the schedule, not to be seen or heard from since, at least not in the U.S. Kudos though to the its creators and artists for expanding the sphere of the detective genre.
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