I wonder if they could have done it without involving the mention of Romani at all, just a creepy family tradition that somehow got started by some sociopath who raised his family up in it. Probably not; the way of life would still be reminiscent of Romani. Although maybe they could have had someone bring the similarity up and have shot it down completely.
That was my thought as well. Why go the Romani-direction and not just go with a family of drifters that have developed into this? It could work. It would have worked much better than this storyline did, if you ask me.
I know I read a crime-novel last year that dealt with a similar topic (a family traveling all over the US, kidnapping couples, killing the husband, waiting for the woman to give birth, killing the mother and then selling the baby. That family had also been doing this for decades and the new killers were actually the children of the original couple.) I can't remember which writer it was. I thought it was Kathy Reichs because I vividly remember a scene where the heroine is digging and finding skeletons but... hah, it's Tess Gerritsen.
Anyway, CM might have gone that way and pulled it off without hitting the Romani-angle and all the racial issues and the prejudices inherent in it. That was one of the worst episodes in ever.
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That was my thought as well. Why go the Romani-direction and not just go with a family of drifters that have developed into this? It could work. It would have worked much better than this storyline did, if you ask me.
I know I read a crime-novel last year that dealt with a similar topic (a family traveling all over the US, kidnapping couples, killing the husband, waiting for the woman to give birth, killing the mother and then selling the baby. That family had also been doing this for decades and the new killers were actually the children of the original couple.) I can't remember which writer it was. I thought it was Kathy Reichs because I vividly remember a scene where the heroine is digging and finding skeletons but... hah, it's Tess Gerritsen.
Anyway, CM might have gone that way and pulled it off without hitting the Romani-angle and all the racial issues and the prejudices inherent in it. That was one of the worst episodes in ever.