SummaryNew Orleans judge Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston) goes to extremes to protect his son (Hunter Doohan) after a hit-and-run accident in this adaptation of the Israeli show Kvodo.
SummaryNew Orleans judge Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston) goes to extremes to protect his son (Hunter Doohan) after a hit-and-run accident in this adaptation of the Israeli show Kvodo.
The show is at its finest when allowing its stellar cast to simmer, stew, and boil over with fury and agony, both alone and in the presence of each other.
Even when the intertwining storylines grow ever more tangled and veer into the outlandish, these fine actors sell every line they speak. It’s great acting in a just-pretty-good show.
Four hours into “Your Honor,” there’s a lot of potential for greatness to come balanced with reasonable concern given how much time is left on the clock. The ensemble could get richer and the story could get more thrilling, or it could spin its wheels until an action-packed finale. The four episodes sent have shown signs of both tendencies. In the end, the jury is still out.
Cranston is, unsurprisingly, superb here, as is the rest of the exceptional cast. Unfortunately, much of the material they are working with in Your Honor — developed by Peter Moffat, the British playwright and screenwriter who wrote Criminal Justice, the series that inspired The Night Of — contains so many familiar crime TV elements that it bends toward the tropey. ... The series is not without its compelling moments, though, particularly in the first episode, when Adam gets himself into the trouble that sets up everything that comes next.
Everyone in this cast is tremendous. Cranston and Martindale are especially delectable. ... Beyond these performances, however, isn't much. And ultimately the paucity of substance is obscured by meaty acting becomes this drama's undoing.
Graphically violent and morose, it rubs our noses in the ugly side of humanity for no good reason, and for a legal thriller, it’s remarkably dumb, with its characters making unforgivably boneheaded decisions at every turn.