The four-part Showtime documentary series “Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court” is an important and substantial work — something everyone should experience.
Granted, there are moments when we’re so deep into the legal weeds we start to wonder if this is going to be part of the mid-term, but the acclaimed and gifted director Dawn Porter (“John Lewis: Good Trouble,” “The Way I See It”) has delivered a comprehensive, provocative, occasionally startling work that focuses on some of the most impactful Supreme Court appointments of the last three-quarters of a century, from Earl Warren to Warren Burger to Thurgood Marshall to William Rehnquist to Ruth Bader Ginsburg to John G. Roberts, to the Trump trio of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
