Criminal Justice Season 1, Episode 1 succeeds because it transforms the banal procedures of arrest and interrogation into existential horror. It reveals that the system’s greatest flaw is not corruption, but assumption. DSI Box is not a bad man. He is a competent man operating on incomplete data. And Ben Coulter, innocent or guilty, has already been convicted—not by a judge, but by the architecture of the interview room. Criminal Justice Season 1 - Episode 1
