Everyone loves Shawshank Redemption, right? But not in a supposedly realistic procedural. Jonathan Price did some magnificent stuff with the Wire, but debasing Omar into some kind of kingpin Red, buddying up with Mr. Muslim Token because he wants some stimulating chitchat and chess with ostensibly the only inmate who…

Er, sorry, is a show where dysfunction does not begin to describe the magnitude of the problem in the writers' room somehow going to be well written?