You can, if you wish, see the documentary Operation Odessa as a grand metaphor for the war on drugs. In it, the DEA spends an eternity chasing a klatch of narcotraffickers, burning through stacks of money and agent man-hours, blowing off countless years of prison time for convicted criminals in order to get them to work as informers against the group, and accumulating 15,000 hours of wiretapped conversations. End result: Nobody’s in jail and there’s no evidence that the flow of cocaine into the United States has decreased so much as an ounce.
Or you can ignore the political implications and just enjoy Operation Odessa as a madcap black comedy about three guys who are half-genius and half-oaf blundering in and out of harrowingly scary situations in a kind of post-modernist Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Television critic Glenn Garvin explains.
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