Amazon has created a lot of shows for their Amazon Prime streaming and most of them suck. Just steaming piles of horse excrement. Of course not all their shows are shit. I really like Bosch and I know transparent won a ton of rewards, but I have no real interest in watching that show. I guess that makes me a transphobe since I don't want to watch a show about an old man who is transgender. Oh well. I watched Man in the High Castle as well, but that didn't turn out to be any good. I really loved the premise of the show, and the pilot of Man in the High Castle was great, but then after the pilot episode the show went nowhere.
The reason why this show is decent is because you can't go wrong when you have such a great actor as Billy Bob Thornton as the main character. He plays an alcoholic lawyer who takes a big case of unreasonable death from the victim's sister. The company that is defendant is a defense contractor and the CEO of the company is creepier than dick cheney. The defense company hires the law firm that Billy Bob character help found with his wife. Apparently he got fired a long time ago and making the firm that screwed him over look bad is his main mission. Maria Bello plays his ex-wife who works at the law firm who also happens to be having a lesbian affair with one of the lawyers at the law firm. HOLY MOLY!
Overall if you are fan of shows like Law and Order you'll like this show. Or if you are a fan of Billy Bob Thornton, just think of this show as an 8 hour movie and you will not be disappointed. That's another reason why I liked this show because the plot is good and you need to cover everything within eight 1 hour episodes. Network shows would drag this thing out for 20 episodes and you would lose interest by episode 12.
Grade: B
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