It makes us empathize with them, which, mind you, is not the same as sympathizing, so that we can see the true driving force of this crisis; which wasn't a few bad apples, but a complete and systemic failure.
The show was a complete failure. Porter wanted to leave town until people forgot it. So, he went to Europe. He stayed there for most of the next thirteen years.
When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough; keep on, and a larger thing than you were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this.
They have failed spectacularly with different inventions, one is called the Power Glove, it's a glove you put on to control the computer game, complete failure.
At times, its pursuit for justice can even fail entirely, it can become corrupted, it can lead to guilty people going unpunished, or innocent ones being wrongfully condemned.