Eric is set in a city grappling with familiar issues: a broken infrastructure, with residents regularly complaining to the local government of garbage heaps strewn by the roadsides; a city beset with rampant crime, with routine break-ins and gang violence; and a growing population of addicts and the homeless sleeping in its dark shadows. When his son Edgar goes missing one morning, the dangers lurking in every corner of the city are exposed. Michael Ledroit (McKinley Belcher) is the other protagonist of the show through whom the viewer is shown larger systemic issues of racism, homophobia, political corruption that wracked city life through much of the 1980s and 1990s. Pakistanis who visit New York City even now draw similarities with the metropolis of Karachi. “Karachi itself, a city notorious for lawlessness, political killings and gargantuan slums, has 600,000 heroin addicts, according to the nation's anti-narcotics officials.

Source: The Express Tribune June 23, 2024 18:02 UTC