Your Honor - US Pace -Showtime - (**Spoilers**)

Atlantic Dawn

irishchris wrote: »

Completely disagree with most in this thread in that I really enjoyed the series. One where you can switch off and enjoy. Cranston was excellent in my opinion and just a real shame that it is a limited one off series

I liked the ending, completely unexpected.



You can see from some parts of the series that Covid restrictions perhaps rushed things but I found it enjoyable none the less.

JP Liz V1

Your Honor will debut on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV on Tuesday 2nd March 2021

GreeBo

So why was the detective still investigating the case and why was the lawyer still trying to clear Kofi?

I wonder was the original any better?

GreeBo

OmegaGene wrote: »

the detective was investigating an open murder investigation and trying to close it as a friend of the family and the lawyer was asked to help kofi by the judge and became emotionally invested in the case and wanted to clear his name


now as for why the two ladies in question would walk away makes no sense

You mean the wifes murder investigation?
Kofi pleaded guilty to murdering the Baxter kid, so that case was closed right?

Deeper Blue

So the

wife having an affair

storyline was comletely pointless as far as I can tell? Why include it in that case? I was half expecting

your man from the Wire to be revealed as the wife's lover

:pac:

The ending seemed very rushed to me and the finale itself was dreadful.

Adam and the daughter were two of the least likeable characters I've seen on TV in a while. Good grief.

bigron2109

Finished this last night and really enjoyed . Thought Bryan Cransont played the role very like he did in Breaking Bad.

Thecageyone

Deeper Blue wrote: »

So the

wife having an affair

storyline was comletely pointless as far as I can tell? Why include it in that case? I was half expecting

your man from the Wire to be revealed as the wife's lover

:pac:

The ending seemed very rushed to me and the finale itself was dreadful.

Adam and the daughter were two of the least likeable characters I've seen on TV in a while. Good grief.

Pretty much how I felt, turned from half decent into one of the biggest disappointments I've watched last few years. People over rating Cranston too, he plays a mix of WW and Hank, he could do this in his sleep .... I hope it's done for good.

The finale was one of the most predictable you could imagine also, I don't get how anyone would 'not see it coming'. Once there was the one episode left and it had to wrapped up, you just had to know, it was going to be some thrown together 'karma' ending.

fryup

worth a watch?

rubadub

Cina wrote: »

The idea that a moody, boring, self obsessed little twerp like him can be fawned over by two women like that is probably the most unbelievable thing in a show full of ridiculousness.

One is supposed to be a girl, 16 or 17 I guess. Which I found ridiculous, I remember looking at her one stage early on in the school uniform and wondering "why the hell is she (a grown woman who could pass for being in her early 30s) wearing a dress like that, it looks like a school uniform, -ohhhh, it IS a school uniform". I saw some review saying similar -looked like she was going to a fancy dress party.

Frank Grimes wrote: »

It was a dreadful ending, presumably they think they're getting it renewed.

I thought there was no chance at all, that is one of the reasons I decided to definitely watch it, knowing it was a one off mini series, and would have no cliff hangers or anything.

fryup wrote: »

worth a watch?

I think so. I got through it in 3 nights. I did find a lot of BB similarities. I wondered how the reviews would have been if BB never existed.

Yer man suffered from a severe case of Varadkar mouth, like Jimmy Carr.

Frank Grimes

rubadub wrote: »

I thought there was no chance at all, that is one of the reasons I decided to definitely watch it, knowing it was a one off mini series, and would have no cliff hangers or anything.

Same, I just assumed it would be a standard mini-series. It's not that I expect perfect closure in shows or films I watch but that ending (to me) was the writers leaving it open for another season. Although, this is a series which feature a scene in a "previously on" which wasn't in any other episode so anything is possible.

yabadabado

Finished it tonight.

A good story idea,first episode was good and then it went seriously down hill with each passing episode .

It's was completely ludicrous in places for something that was supposed to be a serious show.

It really had little or no redeeming qualities, Cranston could do his role in his sleep.

Could see that ending a mile off.

For anyone who hasn't started it ,my advice is don't bother.I only stuck with it because there is **** all else do be at.

nc6000

That was all a bit of a disappointment.

Funny that nobody in the show thought it odd he was the judge at a trial all related to a death caused by his wife's car!

:rolleyes:

Mulbert

What was the point of the blackmail bit? Where did ur man get the info.

Maybe I missed it. And I sure as hell not going to watch back over it to investigate.

Overall opinion, rubbish.

yabadabado

Mulbert wrote: »

What was the point of the blackmail bit? Where did ur man get the info.

Maybe I missed it. And I sure as hell not going to watch back over it to investigate.

Overall opinion, rubbish.

He was the fella in the car behind Adam at the petrol station.He obviously put 2 and 2 together from news reports etc.
Still massive plot holes in him doing that as well.

nc6000

yabadabado wrote: »

He was the fella in the car behind Adam at the petrol station.He obviously put 2 and 2 together from news reports etc.
Still massive plot holes in him doing that as well.

That was the green Camry guy. Who was supposed to be in the black SUV which seemed to be following him around in the first couple of episodes and drive away with the lights off?

yabadabado

nc6000 wrote: »

That was the green Camry guy. Who was supposed to be in the black SUV which seemed to be following him around in the first couple of episodes and drive away with the lights off?

Yeah I've no idea(the lads who showed the gun to Adam?) and the lease must have been up on that SUV as the writers just left it out completely after maybe 2 episodes.

The more I think about the series the worse it gets.Pure **** .

Tchaikovsky

Taking into account conflict of interest reasons, there's no way Michael should've been presiding over that murder case.

fryup

just finished episode 4

question

why did kobi jones walk into the cell of the baxter boy?

fryup

just finished it tonight,

so basically the moral of the story was:

what goes around comes around

yes?

nc6000

fryup wrote: »

just finished episode 4

question

why did kobi jones walk into the cell of the baxter boy?

Was he going there to tell him the truth about what had happened?

Thecageyone

fryup wrote: »

just finished it tonight,

so basically the moral of the story was:

what goes around comes around

yes?

Pretty much, such an obvious ending, felt to me like they rushed the last few episodes to wrap it up in 10

Thecageyone

nc6000 wrote: »

Was he going there to tell him the truth about what had happened?

You would think

that the truth would be the first thing he'd tell him, and from ouitside the cell - in reality nobody in their right mind would have walked in there

fryup

what was the significance of his deceased wife's affair?? it didn't add anything to the story or did i miss something?

yabadabado

fryup wrote: »

what was the significance of his deceased wife's affair?? it didn't add anything to the story or did i miss something?

No significance at all from what I could gather.

I was half expecting it to come out that Michael had her bumped off, it wouldn't have been the most ludicrous thing in the show.

fryup

Overall i enjoyed it, although in the back of my mind i kept thinking if only they came clean about it from the very start all of this mess and human lives lost could have easily been avoided.

And Bryan Cranston was basically playing Walter White in a judge's outfit, although he does it well.

Larbre34

Finished this tonight. Overall I give it a negative review.

I understand dramatic licence but the jolting and, by the end, bonkers coincidences that occured throughout just irritated me. The writing was disjointed, characters lashed in to the story sometimes to facilitate unfeasible events and often times just to confuse, but not in an intriguing way.

My main recollection is the impromptu dinner mid-series that the Mother in Law organises without asking anyone and suddenly all these protagonists are sat around a table even though their connections to the main family are tenuous or professional at best. It looked like the movie 'Clue' and I remember I looked at my wife and said 'ah here!'

The ending was also rushed and clumsy. I was going to say unresolved, but there is talk of a second season, yet with the inevitable fates of the main characters written in stone, there would have to be some even bigger mental plot devices to make it viable.

My advice, watch Breaking Bad again.

poisonated

I really enjoyed this show!

Notdeco

Just finished this show and I enjoyed it, for the questions about the writing and direction of the show. Covid hit mid way through shooting so it a rewritten 2nd half.

I still enjoyed it for what it was, and I can see a 2nd season if it was a ratings hit.

And I'd watch it.

Degag

How did Carlo get a not guilty verdict? Because the laddo walked into his cell?

Overall i enjoyed it but overall fairly ridiculous alright.

youcancallmeal

Just finished it, a bit meh overall. Grim and tense throughout with no likeable characters. Far too many contrivances especially the vet at the graveyard and the final scene at the hotel.

fryup

Notdeco wrote: »

I still enjoyed it for what it was, and I can see a 2nd season if it was a ratings hit.

wah? how could they continue from that?

Thargor

Watched episode 1, Did nobody notice Brian Cranston in full Judges robes gets down off the stand and starts strutting around the courtroom doing the full cliched defence attorney song and dance before revealing he'd visited the defendants house and therefore can prove the cop is a liar? This is him supposed to be playing a judge in an American courtroom here? I couldnt believe how stupid that scene was, like the writers had never seen an episode of Law and Order or any other courtroom drama in their lives, it was embarrassing. Then I read this thread and it sounds like it only gets more stupid as it goes on so I just turned it off.

edgecutter

Complete nonsense. I would have bailed earlier if the wife wasn't so insistent on finishing it.

youcancallmeal

Thargor wrote: »

Watched episode 1, Did nobody notice Brian Cranston in full Judges robes gets down off the stand and starts strutting around the courtroom doing the full cliched defence attorney song and dance before revealing he'd visited the defendants house and therefore can prove the cop is a liar? This is him supposed to be playing a judge in an American courtroom here? I couldnt believe how stupid that scene was, like the writers had never seen an episode of Law and Order or any other courtroom drama in their lives, it was embarrassing. Then I read this thread and it sounds like it only gets more stupid as it goes on so I just turned it off.

I just kind of assumed that maybe in New Orleans judges are more actively involved in trials in this manner but yeah the writing is extremely poor overall and you're better off having left it after ep 1

edgecutter

edgecutter wrote: »

Complete nonsense. I would have bailed earlier if the wife wasn't so insistent on finishing it.

Ditto

So many holes...

Last of many...
What was the significance of the 911 call in getting Carlo acquitted?

Whoever cast the two kids should be water boarded.

yabadabado

Thargor wrote: »

Watched episode 1, Did nobody notice Brian Cranston in full Judges robes gets down off the stand and starts strutting around the courtroom doing the full cliched defence attorney song and dance before revealing he'd visited the defendants house and therefore can prove the cop is a liar? This is him supposed to be playing a judge in an American courtroom here? I couldnt believe how stupid that scene was, like the writers had never seen an episode of Law and Order or any other courtroom drama in their lives, it was embarrassing. Then I read this thread and it sounds like it only gets more stupid as it goes on so I just turned it off.

You lucky ****er ,I wished I quit on episode one.

Cluedo Monopoly

This show was utter rubbish. Maddening and silly throughout. Stupid coincidences. The most contrived drama I have ever come across.
They are really dumbing down the US dramas these days. The first episode did draw you in but it went downhill fast.
I finished it but couldn't care less in the end. I now regret watching it. The ending was stupid too but what did I expect.
Anyone that liked it is enabling this mindless guff.
.

BPKS

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

This show was utter rubbish. Maddening and silly throughout. Stupid coincidences. The most contrived drama I have ever come across.
They are really dumbing down the US dramas these days. The first episode did draw you in but it went downhill fast.
I finished it but couldn't care less in the end. I now regret watching it. The ending was stupid too but what did I expect.
Anyone that liked it is enabling this mindless guff.
.

Completely agree.

One of the worst drams I've seen.

The best description of it was a dramatic Curb Your Enthusiasm. The judge and the son just kept doing stupid things ending with stupid coincidences.

Are we going to get a Series 2 based on solving the wife's murder? I won't be watching either way.

The_Dave

I thought it was ridiculous and was going to quit, read reviews which rated it highly so stuck with it. Big mistake

Fr Tod Umptious

The_Dave wrote: »

I thought it was ridiculous and was going to quit, read reviews which rated it highly so stuck with it. Big mistake

I initially quit midway through episode 2.
It was just going too slow.
Then we decided to get rid of Sky and I thought I'd watch it all before the month of Sky expired.
I got as far as the end of episode 2.
I was not bothered any more.

Happy to see here on this thread that I missed nothing.

Cartman78

Only finished this the other night, it really fizzled out after a reasonably decent start....would have probably stopped watching it a few episodes from the end but the missus was into it amd Cranston's performance just about made it watchable.....the rest of the cast was utterly wasted or just rubbish, and the plot jumped the shark about five episodes in.


**MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD**


Main gripe was easily the son....either the actor was really bad or he was brilliant and was told to act like an complete brain dead eejit.

What dafuq was he doing in the courtroom??

Why would he dump the hot teacher for the sister of the guy he just killed?? And why did she look like she was about 30 despite supposedly being in highschool??? She actually looked older than the teacher now that I think about it :-)

There's probably a dozen other plot holes I could point out but overall this was a colossal waste of talent, time and money

ixoy

What a moron the son was in particular - his constant mistakes were needed just to push the hacky plot along. Well the finale I suppose was good if only because:

Idiot son died.

Very disappointing overall.

JP Liz V1

I can't believe how old Maura Tierney as the DA looks

Luckycharm

yabadabado wrote: »

No significance at all from what I could gather.

I was half expecting it to come out that Michael had her bumped off, it wouldn't have been the most ludicrous thing in the show.

Did they ever explain how or why she got murdered, I know she having an affair but doesn't explain her death?
Overall enjoyed it though Adam was extraordinarily annoying.

yabadabado

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I can't believe how old Maura Tierney as the DA looks

I knew she looked familiar but never copped it was her .

yabadabado

Luckycharm wrote: »

Did they ever explain how or why she got murdered, I know she having an affair but doesn't explain her death?

No I don't think so.

fryup

Luckycharm wrote: »

Did they ever explain how or why she got murdered, I know she having an affair but doesn't explain her death?
.

she was shot in a crossfire in a gangland feud, whilst working as a photographer

Galwayguy35

Finished it last night, that Adam was an annoying little twat.

Seemingly there is talk of a S2 but its hard to see where the story can go after what happened.

youcancallmeal

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Seemingly there is talk of a S2 but its hard to see where the story can go after what happened.

It's easy, just think of any number of stupid plot directions, throw a few contrivances in and you have a 2nd season

The_Dave

I cannot believe how much worse that final episode made an already terrible series go. An educated man can't find a way to get into a restaurant, stop:o:rolleyes: