I actually gave up on this show a season or so ago. They had an episode with a “conservative” talk show host who called the black mayor a porch monkey and was saying other racist stuff that conservative hosts only say when written by a liberal. The host was having a town hall appearance in NYC and Tom Selleck’s character made sure to have only minority police officers working to guard the place, which enraged the host and kept all of his conservative, racist listeners away from the event.
This was after an episode where a prostitute was murdered, and of course the murderer turned out to be her devoutly Christian mother who opposed her lifestyle. And another episode where a Muslim terrorist was planning to blow up a park, and it turned out to be a blue-eyed blonde who had married a Muslim and became a radical. Her husband and every other Muslim shown were appalled by her actions and complained that she had twisted their beliefs.
I watched the first season of Persons of Interest, which had a little bit of a “blame America” undercurrent to it. I stopped watching early in season 2 when our heroes were charged with guarding a doctor and her “wife.”
given his history, I am surprised Seleck is involved in such writing.