Maybe the source material wasn't all that good - I've never read it. But you'd think a showrunner who's previously written plenty of appealing characters and storylines, together with an impressive cast, should produce something more intriguing than this.
The acting is good, but the personalities are never engaging; their motivations are never explored to any kind of depth; and mostly, whatever happens to them is hopelessly mundane. There's even an attempt to inject life into the banality by adding an ordinary side story about injustice and courtroom inequality. But possibly the worst crime of them all is that the ending is so hopelessly anemic, it might as well have been replaced by a long pan shot of a puff of smoke.
The acting is good, but the personalities are never engaging; their motivations are never explored to any kind of depth; and mostly, whatever happens to them is hopelessly mundane. There's even an attempt to inject life into the banality by adding an ordinary side story about injustice and courtroom inequality. But possibly the worst crime of them all is that the ending is so hopelessly anemic, it might as well have been replaced by a long pan shot of a puff of smoke.
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