New TV Show About Undocumented Immigrant Private Investigator

It’s about time, that’s all I have to say about it.

Oh, and I’m a sucker for a good mystery TV show.

Deadline.com reports that a new television series about an undocumented private investigator is in development at the FX Network. The pilot has yet to be recorded, or even written, but the idea is generating a big buzz. It helps that one of the show’s executive producers is Rodrigo Garcia, son of Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

According to Deadline, the series is being described as a “cross between Traffic and Chinatown.” I’m intrigued.

It makes sense; this is what the series creators said about the premise: “In addition to relying on his own sleuthing skills, by being an illigal immigrant, the PI on the show will be able to tap into a network of other immigrants. ‘It’s an invisible network of people we don’t pay attention to who see everything,’ (writer Chap) Taylor said. ‘They take care of our kids, they mow our lawns, they deliver our food, they mop the floors at our offices, they park our cars. They know if we recycle, and they know if we are cheating on our wives.'”