This show has been steadily declining for a while now, but this episode is one of the worst.
Besides it being just an obvious excuse just to send some of the cast members to Japan for a vacation, it offered very little to any progressive story telling = The actual relationships in the show are so poorly written that I can't get invested in them at all.
The biggest offense of this episode though had to be the fact that they wanted to shoe-horn in some animosity between a Japanese Policeman and Officer Tan (a man of Chinese descent) = In this episode the Japanese Policeman harbored negative feelings towards Tan because the Japanese man's grandfather fought against China in WWII...? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure China was the victim of that exchange. It was Japan that invaded China, killed 1,000s upon 1,000s of innocent people, captured Chinese women and forced them to go back to Japan to be sex worker slaves, and then continued to occupy parts of China until their eventual defeat. So how does this episode have the nerve to make the Japanese Policeman the "victim" in any of this?
I get that we Americans will forever feel quilted by the fact we dropped 2 nukes on Japan, but to continue the charade that Japan is an innocent victim for their part in WWII is an injustice to history and the world.
I don't like to get political, but since this show seems to only want to get political, they should check their facts before writing something so historically offensive.
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