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Harry's Law: Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 17, 2011
  • Season #: 1 , 2
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Metascore
48 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 45 Ratings

Your Score
10 out of 10
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  • Summary: David E. Kelley returns with a legal drama starring Kathy Bates as Harriet "Harry" Horn, a recently fired attorney who sets up a new office in a shoe store.
  • Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Drama

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 21
  3. Negative: 6 out of 21
  1. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Jan 17, 2011
    75
    An improbably entertaining outing that initially finds Kathy Bates' character reclining at her office desk while smoking pot and bemoaning her fate.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Jan 17, 2011
    60
    For all its flaws, there's something attractively amiable about Harry's Law. A little more grit, a little less speechifying, and a better verdict might yet arrive.
  3. Kansas City Star
    Reviewed by: Aaron Barnhart
    Jan 20, 2011
    30
    Unfortunately, neither Bates nor Kelley seems to have any heart in this show. Picking up pretty much where he left off with "Boston Legal," Kelley turns the courtroom into Air America.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 24
  3. Negative: 4 out of 24
  1. sGabe4
    8
    The pilot was charming, wonderful and full of great acting. Kathy Bates proves why she got that Oscar. The sadly not so much utilized Shoe Store subplot is funny as hell.… Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  2. bluejeanqueen
    5
    This show's second season may kill it. All of the things I liked about its first season are gone. It's gone from a small neighborhood law office inside a shoe store, to a large firm above the shoe store. Are we supposed to believe that huge office is upstairs from that very small retail space? Come on. Too many new characters have muddied the waters. A great show with so much potential has become dull, dull, dull.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. Whiston532
    1
    The characters are decent enough. Not amazing, but serviceable. Where this show is hurt, and in many ways crippled, is that the defendants are all guilty. Everybody knows this, it's clear. But instead of trying to find something that disproved the charges, or even busting them on technicalities. They clear them by blaming others, or by being nice people. The first episode has a college kid (the first in his family, keep this in mind) who got busted for buying cocaine (a repeat offender too). He gets let go because his lawyer says that he's a nice guy. Seriously. A repeat offender gets let go because he's nice. The acting and everything else is irrelevant. This show has terrible plots.… Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes

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