Oh boy. At it's heart this is a series about slave labor in California... where all the leftists in Hollywood's new propaganda entertainment live. You know, the "bastion of progressiveness." The place that is the fastest to point out that slavery in the past was so bad people in the present are guilty of it and people in the future will be just as guilty as the people that actually owned slaves... ... it is about slavery in THAT state. A sort of Romanesque we are going to force criminals to risk their lives for the state sort of slavery. it's sort of gladiatorial combat against fire...