…ted again at the end of the series, in conveying the sadness and untimeliness of Elisa Lam’s death. What struck me as odd was the decision to infantilize a 21-year-old girl within her mental illness, while criminalizing people on Skid Row, who are also mentally ill. I’m not sure how we’re supposed to feel sympathy for Elisa Lam without also feeling sympathy for the thousands of people suffering around her. In this context, I’m also not sure how we are expected to divorce crime from incapacity and desperat…
