History YMMV / TheCloser

* HarsherInHindsight: In-universe. "Roadblock" is this to "Borderline". In the latter, earlier episode, Brenda leaves the scene of a minor fender bender, treats like an annoying inconvenience and spends the episode ducking and dodging the Captain of the Traffic Divison, who finally breaks down to her that traffic/vehicle-related mishaps cause at least as many deaths in LA as regular homicides do and are every bit as traumatic to survivors of the victims. This brings us to the former episode, where [[spoiler: the LAPD commissioner's wife]] strikes and kills a young woman on a bicycle while heavily intoxicated, flees the scene, spends the episode trying to avoid any responsibility for her actions, and shows even ''less'' remorse for this than Brenda did for lightly tapping someone's bumper.

* HarsherInHindsight: In-universe. "Roadblock" is this to "Borderline". In the latter, earlier episode, Brenda leaves the scene of a minor fender bender, treats like an annoying inconvenience and spends the episode ducking and dodging the Captain of the Traffic Divison, who finally breaks down to her that traffic/vehicle-related mishaps cause at least as many deaths in LA as regular homicides do. This brings us to the former episode, where [[spoiler: the LAPD commissioner's wife]] strikes and kills a young woman on a bicycle while heavily intoxicated, flees the scene, spends the episode trying to avoid any responsibility for her actions, and shows even ''less'' remorse for this than Brenda did for lightly tapping someone's bumper.

** Sgt. Gabriel, who already gets next to no respect from anyone onf the squad due to his willingness to assist Brenda from day one, which paints him as an outcast due to everyone else despising her being able to come into the LAPD as a Deputy Chief (and thus, their boss) without having to work her way up the ladder like everyone else. Even when they begin respecting her, they (mostly Flynn, Sanchez, and sometimes Provenza) treat him with marginal cordiality at best and this lasts throughout the entire series without any improvement. Once it's revealed that his new girlfriend Ann was the leak planted by Goldman to dig up information on them to use in a class action lawsuit against the LAPD, even that goes out the window, with Flynn going so far as demand that Gabriel put in for a transfer, although Brenda ultimately [[PetTheDog convinces him not to]].

* HarsherInHindsight: In-universe. "Roadblock" is this to "Borderline". In the latter, earlier episode, Brenda leaves the scene of a minor fender bender and spends the episode ducking and dodging the Captain of the Traffic Divison, who finally breaks down to her that traffic/vehicle-related mishaps cause at least as many deaths in LA as regular homicides do. This brings us to the former episode, where [[spoiler: the LAPD commissioner's wife]] strikes and kills a young woman on a bicycle while heavily intoxicated, flees the scene, and shows even ''less'' remorse for this than Brenda did for lightly tapping someone's bumper.

* HarsherInHindsight: In--universe. "Roadblock" is this to "Borderline". In the latter, earlier episode, Brenda leaves the scene of a minor fender bender and spends the episode ducking and dodging the Captain of the Traffic Divison, who finally breaks down to her that traffic/vehicle-related mishaps cause at least as many deaths in LA as regular homicides do. This brings us to the former episode, where [[spoiler: the LAPD commissioner's wife]] strikes and kills a young woman on a bicycle while heavily intoxicated, flees the scene, and shows even ''less'' remorse for this than Brenda did for lightly tapping someone's bumper.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Brenda herself suffers this throughout the series but it really comes to the forefront following the conclusion of the "Shootin' Newton" murders. To recap, she initally was trying to solve the murders of two soldiers, one of whom had a twin brother name Tyrell Baylor who was a gang member. Tyrell had shot a store owner and his eight-year old grandson -the "Newtons"-- and since the store was gang-protected property, his fellow gang members were after him for some street justice and shot his brother and the soldier he was with due to MistakenIdentity. Tyrell offered this info up to Brenda to close her case on the soldiers' murders under the condition that he receive immunity for any role he had in the store murders, then after the deal was signed, confessed to those shootings. Brenda being [[KnightTemplar Brenda]], she decided to take justice into her own hands--by [[IGaveMyWord honoring said immunity agreement]]...and [[ExactWords releasing]] Baylor back into his neighborhood and knowingly into the waiting hands of his former fellow gang members. If you watch the series, you know what happened next; if you don't, you can probably guess. The "Unsympathetic" part comes when Baylor's family, now having lost ''both'' of their sons, make themselves known and file a class action lawsuit against Brenda and the entire LAPD. As their attorney Peter Goldman would go on to [[JerkassHasAPoint point out]], Tyrell might have been an unrepentant murderer but that didn't give Brenda the right to play judge, jury, and executioner with his life just to satisfy what she felt was justice.