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“Who do you go to if you can’t go to the cops?” Jewel Machado, a high-achieving Latinx teen-ager, wonders, unbelievably, in the pilot of the CBS action procedural “The Equalizer.” Even considering the relative conservatism of prime-time drama, the line struck me as glaringly unhip. Wouldn’t this character, coded as she is,
get it? And yet the series is full of Jewel Machados: people who are marginalized but still stunningly naïve about the forces of marginalization. Their cluelessness allows “The Equalizer” to showcase the bad-bitch proficiency of its hero, Robyn McCall, played by the congenitally warm Queen Latifah. In each episode, an unequal system plunges a character, who is poor or Black or both, to the darkest of depths, and McCall, a former C.I.A. agent, is invariably there to rescue them. Though she is styled a lot like Olivia Benson of “Law and Order: S.V.U.,” in domme leather outf ....

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