Two weeks ago, I downloaded the third episode of Shark's first season. I also kept a few hours for a few days so I could watch the first eleven episodes, because I didn't have the time when La Sexta broadcasted them in Spain.

The series approach is quite simple, and it didn't seem more atractive to me than other lawyer's TV series -so I didn't try too hard in watching it on TV. That's it: Sebastian Stark's a winning defense lawyer that hasn't lost a single case in more than 15 years of career. His clients are rich assassins, psico executives, corrupt politicians and mafia-y businessmen. In short, Stark -nicknamed Shark by his colleagues- earns his paycheck by defending scum. His amorality has allowed him to live happily all those years, until he faces the consequences of his success with his own eyes and falls into a deep depression. When he's hired as special lawyer for the prosecution, Stark takes his best chance for redemption without even blinking.

As I said, that's quite usual, including the classic trial-per-episode frame, where the anglosaxon conception of trials as battles makes it interesting and entertaining.

However, when La Sexta aired Shark I didn't realize -Wikipedia solves most of those disinformation issues- who promoted the series by directing the pilot episode: Spike Lee. How's possible -I asked myself- that Spike Lee has directed a lawyer's drama series, considering that its star is a misogynist, sexist and amoral prosecutor?

The additional interest of the series becomes the very answer to this: using a hollywoody product -which is the most popular formula- and a main character that avoids making deep ethical statements -as every lead character of this kind of dramas, they always make decisions based on very primary interests and superficial explanations- they can introduce some left-winged, liberal and genuinely democratic -which means the people decides - ideas. Those ideas can slowly create a mass-conscience change. From my point of view, that's the kind of media product that left-wing parties need to promote in its now-inexistent cultural agendas, because it's the same technique that the rich classes use. That technique's the one that can transform aberrant behaviours like unstoppable corporatization and unresponded exploitation.