A lot of old film noir basically had a premise of “there are no ethical or humane choices a person can make in this fucked up world”. From what I recall though, quite a few of the people writing and directing these did actually have socialist politics, a lot coming from Europe during the world wars. But the way they created these bleak, inescapable capitalist hellscapes is very effective at getting some complex ideas across.
Damn watching the second episode and this evil lawyer lady just said “we have a nice middle class jury, they dislike the insurance company second only to their distaste for working class people” ouch
How’d all this class consciousness get in this TV show? Damn