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  • Mar 16, 2012
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  • Mar 16, 2012

Summary Sarah Shahi stars in this USA project as Kate Reed, a formidable litigator-turned-mediator. Fed up with the bureaucracy and injustice in the legal system, Kate Reed seeks a life of balance, not of winners and losers.

  • USA
  • Mar 16, 2012
  • USA
  • Mar 16, 2012
Fairly Legal
Season 2
Season Premiere: Mar 16, 2012
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
51
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 14 User Ratings
5.9
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Summary Sarah Shahi stars in this USA project as Kate Reed, a formidable litigator-turned-mediator. Fed up with the bureaucracy and injustice in the legal system, Kate Reed seeks a life of balance, not of winners and losers.

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Episode 1 • Mar 16, 2012 • 47 m
Satisfaction
Kate returns to work to mediate a case between a company and an employee who claims his illness is due to exposure from harmful chemicals on the job.
Episode 2 • Mar 23, 2012 • 43 m
Start Me Up
When Kate is asked to mediate an agreement between a hospital and the FBI over a liver transplant for a key informant, she discovers that the liver was originally promised to a much sicker patient.
Episode 3 • Mar 30, 2012 • 42 m
Bait & Switch
Kate mediates a dispute between a fishing boat captain and his injured deckhand, that is more about a family rift than a fishing injury. Lauren begins to date again.
Episode 4 • Apr 6, 2012 • 42 m
Shine a Light
As Kate mediates a severance agreement between an aeronautics company and a dismissed engineer, she discovers that the company may have something to hide. Meanwhile, Lauren babysits Ben as they placate a disgruntled client.
Episode 5 • Apr 13, 2012 • 42 m
Gimme Shelter
Kate fights to help a landlord save his building from foreclosure and the resident drug-dealer who is scaring away tenants.
Episode 6 • Apr 20, 2012 • 43 m
What They Seem
Kate and Ben go up against Justin and the city while representing a client who claims he was the victim of police brutality. A former client accuses Lauren of committing an ethics violation.
Episode 7 • Apr 27, 2012 • 43 m
Teenage Wasteland
Kate returns to her alma mater to mediate a dispute between the school and a student being expelled for cheating.
Episode 8 • May 4, 2012 • 43 m
Ripple of Hope
When Kate is brought in to resolve a hunger strike at a local women's prison, she becomes obsessed with helping Lea Ferran, a prisoner who claims innocence.
Episode 9 • May 11, 2012 • 44 m
Kiss Me, Kate
In the midst of trying to prevent a strike by the city transit-workers union, Kate struggles to understand her feelings for Ben.
Episode 10 • May 18, 2012 • 42 m
Shattered
While mediating a case between a nursing home and a patient, Kate discovers that the only witness who can clear an innocent nurse of negligence is also a fugitive on the lam for 20 years.
Episode 11 • Jun 1, 2012 • 42 m
Borderline
Ben and Kate travel to Lake Tahoe to settle a border dispute between two police departments at odds over the recently-discovered remains of a young woman linked to a possible murder investigation.
Episode 12 • Jun 8, 2012 • 42 m
Force Majeure
Justin takes Kate to a concert by her favorite Brazilian singer and ends up embroiled in a scandal that puts Justin's political future in jeopardy.
Episode 13 • Jun 15, 2012 • 43 m
Finale
While mediating a case regarding two women who were fired for their sexual orientation, Kate stumbles on evidence of a cover-up and enlists the help of Ben and Lauren to get to the bottom of a dirty land deal.

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
51
17% Positive
1 Review
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
51
17% Positive
1 Review
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review

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75
Mar 14, 2012
They're no Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, but Johnson and Shahi's teasing banter is definitely entertaining--plus, they're both easy on the eyes.
By Aubry D'Arminio FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 16, 2012
Nothing that happens with other characters or elsewhere in the plot, though, is likely to diminish Shahi's presence.
By David Hinckley FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 26, 2012
They're just bland. [2 Apr 2012, p.44]
By Tom Gliatto FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 14, 2012
Maybe Fairly Legal will become a kind of "Good Wife-Lite," with Kate and Lauren doing a whole Alicia and Diane thing, but that's not necessarily bad.
By David Wiegand FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 16, 2012
Yes, the banter is forced and precious, and the premise of the show remains rather fuzzy. But they're all so darned pretty, which is just how USA likes it.
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW
30
Mar 16, 2012
This is a case of a show just not working on both a structural and emotional level.
By Maureen Ryan FULL REVIEW

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Mixed or Average Based on 14 User Ratings
5.9
57% Positive
8 Ratings
21% Mixed
3 Ratings
21% Negative
3 Ratings

User Reviews

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User Score
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57% Positive
8 Ratings
21% Mixed
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21% Negative
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