Darktown

Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith are among the first Black police officers hired by the Atlanta PD, a token hiring undermined at every turn: they can't drive squad cars, arrest white suspects, or set foot in headquarters. When a young Black woman is found dead shortly after being seen in a car with a white man, Boggs and Smith suspect a cover-up protecting a white police officer — and start investigating despite having no real authority to do so.

Thomas Mullen builds a period-accurate police procedural around the entrenched racism of the postwar South, following Boggs and Smith against a corrupt veteran cop and his more conflicted young partner as the case pulls at the fragile boundaries the department has drawn around them.