Emperor of Ocean Park (season 1)

The plot is set in the world of politics, Ivy League academia, and the beaches of Martha's Vineyard Island. Talcott Garland, an Ivy League law professor whose quiet life is shattered when his father, Judge Oliver Garland, dies of a heart attack. Tal's sister, Mariah, a former journalist and avid conspiracy theorist, believes the judge, an unsuccessful black Supreme Court nominee, was killed by foul play. Whitaker will play Judge Oliver Garland, the patriarch of his family and a formidable figure in national politics and the judiciary. He is tough, smart, calculating and proud. As a black man in America who found himself in an unfriendly and often hostile environment, he developed a tough exterior that he came to rely on as a shield. He is a devoted father whose devotion to his family both reinforces and undermines his deep and rigid conservative principlesrn