Alex Cross is brilliant, flawed, and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.
This tv show contains 38 potentially triggering events.
As someone noted above, a dog is mentioned being killed in passing conversation. No details are given about it. Nothing is shown or heard, just the comment that they probably killed her dog to prevent it from barking if someone were to break into her house.
Not directly; however, the first case involves the police interrogating a white man who allegedly killed his pregnant wife for carrying a Black man’s child.
There are many stereotypes weaponized against Black characters (sometimes by other Black characters, sometimes by non-Black characters). We are not meant to root for them/agree with them.
There are some allusions to religion in the murderer’s research. One of the victims is purported to be a convert to Islam and discussions of not eating pork are a plot point.
A mother leaves her son in the care of her sister to try and help solve her “baby daddy’s” murder. (Spoiler to follow) She is later murdered, but the episode ends with the child about to find out about it off-camera.
No one is shown to be an addict but there are many discussions of whether or not certain characters were addicted, if they relapsed, if they died by overdose, etc.
There is a lot of public criticism of the police, and our story follows a Black detective; there is a lot of the police Chief trying to mop up a PR mess by using Black detectives as the face of the investigation.
Someone breaks into a house then hides in the closet when the child comes back home. She watches her through the slits in the closet door, holding a knife.
One of the very first scenes involves an interrogation of a white suspect who is red only racist against Black people, specifically his wife’s lover and the Black cops interrogating him.
There is quite a bit of blood/fire in scenes involving a young Black man as the victim, and a young Black woman as the victim. There are also case file photos that include blood, as well as flashbacks.