“This is illegal,” Eric Meyers warns the officers, as seen in a new documentary on the episode. A majority seem mostly upset that he cited children’s letters to Santa, an annual newspaper tradition, as evidence of the education gap post-Covid. Fascinating vox pop surveys aside, Seized offers the most thorough explanation yet of what led to the raid, which is equal parts sinister and amusingly petty. Seized is, ultimately, a defense of the press through precise specificity on the smallest scale. “This is not a particularly corrupt town,” Hartnett notes on his final day of work.