Bianca Heuser is a writer based in Berlin.

In this golden age of American TV, the stories it tells help us navigate the bigger picture – all the more so when the news cycle itself, pushes the viewer from episode to episode, cliffhanger to cliffhanger, twist to revelation and back. The fourth season of

 says a lot about the current state of the States. If Epstein, Trump, and cops killing with impunity offer real-world examples of the link between power and corruption, the tribulations of the lawyer Diane Lockhart offer a parable of its mechanisms, and what happens when you try to defy them.

 finally gets to the bottom of our collective misery. At the top, the rules don’t apply."