Series · CBC · 2016
Shoot the Messenger
Skip it on CBC if a thirteen-year-old can reach the set; the blurb already spends the family for the scandal.
Take controlThis scores 44. Shoot the Messenger cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
It’s a CBC crime thriller about Daisy Channing, a young reporter who sees a killing she reads as gang work and then can’t drop the thread. The jobs are concrete—newsroom, homicide detective, editor, co-worker—and the plot claims the rot runs into corporate and political power. What we actually got is that setup, a messy personal life, and a warning that the story will destroy lives, including her family’s.
The honest good is that reporting and policing are treated as work that can matter to a city. The cost is everything else the blurb sells: private wreckage as fuel, a government-sized cover-up, and a house where a thirteen-year-old finds it alone and a nine-year-old is next. Is one evening of that worth what it leaves running in the kids’ heads tomorrow?
Where to watch
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
7/10
Daisy’s reporting, the homicide desk, and her editor are the engine of the plot.
Household
3/10
Her messy personal life and family are named among the lives the story will wreck.
Piety
2/10
No beat in the given blurb shows conscience stopping Daisy, a cop, or a source.
Courage
6/10
She stays on the murder story after it reaches crime and political power.
Republic
7/10
The cover-up is said to hit corporate halls and could bring down the government.
Temperance
2/10
The pitch trains you to want the next link in crime, power, and private ruin.
Truth
5/10
A cover-up drives the series; the blurb never shows a promise that holds.
Stewardship
3/10
Lives get destroyed for the scoop; what the city keeps afterward is unsaid.
Live historicallyThis week, open CBC with the household present and delete Shoot the Messenger from continue watching before it autoplays.