In the latest futuristic crime TV show from Fox, a multi-billionaire vows to change his city after a criminal attack and a devastating personal loss. He isn’t Batman, and he doesn’t dress up in a costume to fight criminals: he buys a police department and takes on street crime with an arsenal of high-tech gadgets. APB is a fun show, but it missed out being anything more than light escapism.
The show is loosely based off of 2015 New York Times Magazine feature, Who Runs The Streets of New Orleans?, about an industrialist named Sidney Torres. Following Hurricane Katrina, crime in New Orleans spiked. Torres’ home was burglarized. So with the fortune his sanitation company made during the cleanup of the city, he created the French Quarter...
via The Verge
