Show being misinterpreted?
Hot off a trip to new orleans, my wife and I rewatched season 1 start to finish in 1 day, hopped on the boards to find myself confused by the lack of understanding of this show.
Imo, this show(first season) is not about the crime, nor necessarily marty and rust. It's about coming into terms with roles of masculinity and the burden of fatherhood/a protector. Marty and Rust are constantly at odds with each others feelings about family and where their work intersects with it. Marty's constant discussions about boundaries and decompression and compartmentalization are him trying to make sense of a household full of women that he does not relate to, and that he knows will not relate to him if he brings this work home. Rust is what happens when you remove all of those boundaries and obstacles from the job and go all in. Both talk about the burden of being a father.
I can go on, but is anyone in this board with me or is everyone here viewing season one strictly on a story telling perspective and tearing it apart for "being cliche?" because it kind of pisses me off how stupid you have to be to see it that way with the amount of character texture in these two characters.