# Flint Town (2018)

> Filmmakers embedded with police in Flint, Michigan, document a department struggling with volatile crises and untenable conditions over two years.

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## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 45 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: documentary, crime
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Timothy Johnson, Bridgette Balasko, Devon Bernritter, John Boismier, Esther Campbell, Robert Frost, Dion Reed, Maria Reed
- TMDB rating: 7.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8004578/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: sober, raw, frustrated, humane, unvarnished

## Synopsis

Flint Town (2018) is an American documentary crime miniseries created for Netflix, produced by Anonymous Content. Across eight roughly forty-five-minute episodes, filmmakers spent two years embedded with officers of the Flint, Michigan police department, following ordinary patrol shifts, training sessions, and sit-downs in the station. Police Chief Timothy Johnson and a rotating group of officers, including Devon Bernritter, Esther Campbell, and Robert Frost, appear in their own words as they confront a city struggling with a failed water supply, street riots, gun violence, and deep mistrust between residents and the force. The engine of the series is the daily grind itself: a department trying to keep order and build credibility while the city's basic institutions buckle around it. Each episode moves through calls, community meetings, and hard decisions, so that the broader crisis emerges from small human moments rather than a single case. Shaped as one continuing portrait rather than a case of the week, the series is raw, unvarnished, and often heavy, with a tone that is sober, frustrated, and quietly humane. Its observational style, direct confessionals, and attention to race, poverty, and institutional failure will resonate with viewers of Making a Murderer, The Wire, and Cops who want a close, unsparing look at American policing.

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