As a legal procedural emanating from outside the imaginings of Dick Wolf, “Bluff City Law” at least represents something novel for NBC. But its understanding of the workings of the legal profession…
” at least represents something novel for NBC. But its understanding of the workings of the legal profession is frustratingly limited in a familiar way — not merely because it falls so nearly into timeworn cliché but also because it seems to trust its audience so little. In its first two episodes, what works tepidly well here is a family dynamic that at least feels unusual; what does not are heard-them-all-before clichés about the power and responsibilities of attorneys.
” resembles no current show more than “This Is Us” — and is proof that what has made that show a hit cannot easily be replicated in the courtroom. Here, Caitlin McGee plays a young lawyer recruited by her father to join his firm after the death of her mother; the trauma has reorganized her life such that a radical reshuffling of the deck seems like a good idea. What seems most appealing to her is not the proximity to Dad — a figure from whom she’s been estranged and one whose commitment to legal principle seems greater than to family — but the idea of making change.
Lawyers who defend the wronged against the wrongdoers have a compelling and telegenic role to play. So why does this series keep, in its first two hours, trying to over-prove the case? Audience members are intelligent enough to understand that juries represent an opportunity for normal people to exert change; they’re not addled enough by modern TV drama clichés to confound someone’s legal status with their “legacy,” whatever that means. “Bluff City Law” is all burnish and big, brassy words.
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