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We wouldn’t be as invested if the stakes were privately owned — say, a golf club or a gated community — although Cage’s character with his luxury car and costly latte habit probably cares about those, too.

The Ratliffs are one donut-loving gated community security guard away from wreck and ruin.

"There's no real detail about what we're actually paying for. We don't have any perks for the money like a night watchman or a gated community. The only communal part inside the block really is a bit of carpet by the door," he said.

Ducksworth had the idea to set the series in a gated community in suburban Maryland outside of Washington, D.C., a region that is home to some of the most affluent majority-Black counties in the country.

So I can’t relate to these people where it’s “Your dad’s a lawyer, your mom’s a doctor, and you live in this gated community.”