How can something so smart, so ethically engaging, so subversive and sane, also be fun? Susan
Daitch has made it happen, with wit and verve and empathy. Empathy is, at least partly, what
The Adjudicator is about. Its narrator, sharing the DNA of a film noir gumshoe, searches for
clues in a futuristic dystopia, a place where morality is up for grabs, where perfect control is a
hair’s breadth from chaos, a world both imaginary, and eerily reminiscent of our own.