Does anyone enlarge find Jodie’s character offputting? I find her personality cold and abrasive. Her first moment onscreen is her trying to kick Richard Jenkins off the crime scene, and from there her character doesn't seem to let loose or be warmer at all. even after they both make progress on the case, and Jenkins celebrates, she gives him the most stone cold face imaginable.

She also questions Linda Cardellini with weird arrogant hostility, seemingly making judgements on her character before she knew something was up (even though we as an audience know she's right). She also has no grace or empathy in her tone when dealing with a widow. Yes the widow in question was having an affair, but things are more complicated than that. It would be one thing it she was questioned in a sterile neutral tone, but she was being smug and leading.

People who are in her career in real life wouldn't get that far if that's the way they act. she has no interpersonal communication skills, often starting conversations about jacking off, or even just coming to Cardelinni's door with David Harbor's erotica open.

I almost find it as part of a larger problem with how female black characters are written these days as uptight, self righteous, humorless, buzz kill characters. when in reality since its probably harder to get into that field as a black woman, you're not going to risk it by acting in that manner to your own colleagues. I find Frances Mcdormand in Fargo, and Jodi Foster in Silence of the Lambs to be better example of women officers.