Class of ’09 (2023)
Time changes everything.
CrimeDramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
Creator: Tom Rob Smith
Set in three distinct points in time, follow a class of FBI agents who grapple with immense changes as the U.S. criminal justice system is altered by artificial intelligence.
Where to watch
Hulu
Trailer
Creators
Tom Rob Smith
Cast
Kate Mara
Ashley Poet 
Brian Tyree Henry
Tayo Michaels 
Sepideh Moafi
Hour Nazari 
Brian J. Smith
Daniel Lennix 
Jon Jon Briones
Gabriel 
Brooke Smith
Drew 
Rosalind Eleazar
Dr. Vivienne McMann 
Jake McDorman
Murphy User Reviews (2)
The FX series Class Of '09 smartly layers the past, present, and future in telling this story. Introducing viewers to only two-time frames in the first five minutes made everything that happened in these first two episodes easier to absorb. Kate Mara's performance as Poet is so good that you are (easily) pulled into the third time frame (Present 2023) without it feeling disruptive. You could argue that this story could have been just as good without the time jump. But it feels more attractive told this way and complements the dystopian part of the story set in 2034. The showrunners, writers, and actors did a great job showing the good in 2009 and the ugly in 2034 but offered only a glimpse of the bad that's about to happen with a great cliffhanger at the end of episode two. This direction made it thrilling and fun to watch. Structuring a series like this is difficult and often …
Story summarized on paper probably looks good, and if they have just keeped focus of the show on main core of the story it would be above average. But unfortunately they figured that there could be two stories to tell. One about dangers of considering everyone a criminal and dangers of AI decisioning (at least something in those lines). The other story is about woman in danger, black people in danger and other woke stuff. I can't understand why take something that could be good and ruined it with wokenes. Didn't filmmakers learned until now that we don't want movies and shows to show political ideologies down our throats? I personally am fead up with wokeness and I'm just stop watching in the middle of the show if that's the case. And it was the case with this one.
