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- 2019
- TV-14
- NBC
- 2019
- TV-14
- NBC
Summary After years of estrangement, Sydney Strait (Caitlin McGee) returns to the civil rights law firm her father (Jimmy Smits) runs after the death of her mother in this legal drama set in Memphis.
Created By: Michael Aguilar, Dean Georgaris
- 2019
- TV-14
- NBC
- 2019
- TV-14
- NBC
Bluff City Law
Season 1 Premiere: Sep 23, 2019
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6.3
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Summary After years of estrangement, Sydney Strait (Caitlin McGee) returns to the civil rights law firm her father (Jimmy Smits) runs after the death of her mother in this legal drama set in Memphis.
Created By: Michael Aguilar, Dean Georgaris
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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89% Mixed
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8 Reviews
11% Negative
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The series works to play to the audience’s natural affection for him [Jimmy Smits] to counteract McGee’s dissonant terseness. But the rest of the ensemble helps to ameliorate the brew, particularly the excellent Jayne Atkinson, Barry Sloane and MaameYaa Boafo. Like many new series, this is a drama that isn’t entirely cooked, but it could be a decent stew by midseason.
It’s a noble drama, but it’s not all that original. Smits’ accent is a eye-opener.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
6.3
58% Positive
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Formula procedural but at least a comfortable, easy-to-watch one, with a comfortable, easy-to-watch lead.
A legal procedural strained through the cornball naturalism of NBC’s pride and joy “This Is Us,” the series has the deep-pile Quality Drama feel the network favors, with a muted palette and a pillowy soundtrack (spelled by an occasional blues or soul classic), with room built in for significant looks and pregnant pauses. ... Righteousness predominates, with scripts arranged so that all the pieces fall into order, that the wrong shall fail and the right prevail.
Structurally, the show whips around from weekly forgettable David vs. Goliath cases to one serialized case without enough meat on its bones to justify the extension and more frivolous legal matters like the fight over a BBQ recipe. ... Generally the show feels like something David E. Kelley would have made and made better 20 years ago.
This is all less enthralling than it sounds.
“Bluff City Law” is to legal dramas as last season’s “New Amsterdam” is to medical dramas: emotionally manipulative and meh.
Production Company:
- Dean Georgaris Entertainment 2.0
- David Janollari Entertainment
- Universal Television
Initial Release Date: Sep 23, 2019
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
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