A charismatic billionaire has a bold strategy for fixing American society in Fox’s new series.
A charismatic billionaire has a bold strategy for fixing the broken infrastructure of American society.
The establishment tries, and fails, to stop him.
Credit: Fox
The shy-gawky geek stereotypes of yore have long since given way to the big-ego universe-denting geek stereotypes today.
So Gideon is the prototypical aggro-nerd bro.
IfAPBis a hit, I give it two months before Musk swings by to play himself.
Theories and suspects abound, the more unlikely the better.
(The Walking Dead!The Real Housewives!24!Final Fantasy VII!)
(Try talking about theYoung Pope.)
InAPB, Gideon successfully privatizes local law enforcement.
“Why is some rich guy able to buy justice?”
That strategy: Futuristic uniforms!
Tasers that look like cool guns!
Hey, city, got crime?
Natalie Martinez plays Gideon’s shrugging foil, a tough police officer named Murphy.
That name feels like another reference.
Thirty years ago, Paul Verhoeven releasedRoboCop, a bloody and crazy and lacerating parody of ’80s superman toughness.
RoboCop’s real name, of course, was Murphy.
Martinez isn’t playing a cyborg, butAPBsuggests a world in which machine consciousness is the best-case solution.
while they dispatch invincible cops and brainless drones.
(Can’t wait to see him remakeElleas a romantic comedy in 2045.)
