Glass Floor
- Episode aired Mar 4, 2019
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Olivia prepares to file a lawsuit against a drug manufacturer, but before she's able to, a startup firm steals the case from under her.Olivia prepares to file a lawsuit against a drug manufacturer, but before she's able to, a startup firm steals the case from under her.Olivia prepares to file a lawsuit against a drug manufacturer, but before she's able to, a startup firm steals the case from under her.
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When The Lioness Is Given A Smaller Cage...
Icy Olivia Novak (Cynthia Dale) - a senior partner of Czernik, Lloyd and Novak (Bay Street's finest ambulance chasers) loses her client to RDL Legal - a tiny Queen Street West start-up firm after she was counting on a lucrative case vs big pharma (We have it in Canada too) over a drug that users were told was non-addictive that turned to be addictive (Really?). The turn in fortunes coincides with Czernik, Lloyd and Novak's best mergers and acquisitions lawyer deciding to trigger his buyout.
Misfortune can cascade in business (Which is what this is no matter how high-minded any corporate lawyer can sound), as well as other aspects of life with disturbing regularity. When the managing partner Gerry Czernik (Michael Murphy) decides to walk the gold-plated plank too, Novak goes after his job with his blessing whilst attempting to get a deal going with the tiny start up over the flawed client in a case where they've got a snowball's chance. But it's Canada in early March, snowballs have a longer lifespan.
As circumstances play out Novak and the young shysters have to join forces. If you've watched the original Street Legal you know Olivia Novak is a mix of good and evil of varying degrees depending upon if she gets crossed, by whom and what the settlement is. When she is cornered she can show signs of vulnerability. After that you wouldn't want to be the one who is doing the cornering.
So you put the lioness in a smaller cage to fight for scraps? The X factor is how she'll co-exist with a group of younger lions Lilly Rue (Cara Ricketts), Adam Darling (Steve Lund) and Mina Lee (Yvonne Chapman). Presumably the writing will give the younger lawyers a chance to assert themselves whilst letting Olivia be Olivia. As fans of the series upon which this is a spin-off of know, Olivia Novak is most certainly capable of being vindictive and payback can be called a certain thing that she too has been called.
If one finds anything lacking in this production I cannot say it is because it is less than our best. These are our actors and they're good ones (Brilliant guest-stars included). One of our best directors (Sturla Gunnarson) was at the helm. What you see is what we've got and what we've got is more than we used to have. The result of the debut episode gives us a solid start to this continuation (Or if you wanna say 'reboot'...I'd rather you didn't but, anyway...) of the very popular CBC TV series of exceptional quality and cultural resonance that ran from 1987 to 1994.
When it comes to any Canadian series what we see is part of a greater project whether everyone involved wants for it to be or not. Canadians want OUR stories, told by us, starring us. It isn't just a patriotism thing, and it isn't just a visibility thing. But for some reason some of us think of it as petty. When we get something good (And fundamentally, it looks like that is what this is, and will continue to be) then we have something to crow about. If we get something bad we begin to wonder if the tax credits and broadcasting time quotas which are supposed to be incentive for the making of it are a good idea anymore.
Like any Canadian series, whether it is good OR bad is not necessarily an indicator of whether people will watch it. The schedule against American commercial television does not favour ANY Canadian competition. We just can't match it in terms of production value and countless other things. But it can find a following online as people can watch the episodes free on the website of our national broadcaster. We didn't have that before and we certainly need it more now.
The part about watching it online will be essential if it comes back in the fall. If it remains scheduled at 9pm on Monday nights much of whatever male audience there is won't be watching it at THAT time because of Monday Night Football and smatterings of other demographics will defect to the new fall line-up of other American shows in the time-slot. Everyone involved has to know that and I'm sure they know to manage their expectations.
This show could become binge-worthy and I think it will. Particularly it will find resonance when it connects people to the real life effects of what lawyers do which this initial offering ties it together efficiently.
But the issue of 'Diggstown' - yet another CBC TV series that is a legal drama , and debuts but 48 hours after this one, does raise questions. It features actor C.David Johnson - one of Street Legal's mainstay stars during it's run. It also has Natasha Henstridge (I still gots like a major crush on 'er, eh!). If Diggstown gets canned will Street Legal just raid it's cast, writing staff etc?
Note:
Toronto concert venue Cameron House (Among other local landmarks) has a cameo.
Misfortune can cascade in business (Which is what this is no matter how high-minded any corporate lawyer can sound), as well as other aspects of life with disturbing regularity. When the managing partner Gerry Czernik (Michael Murphy) decides to walk the gold-plated plank too, Novak goes after his job with his blessing whilst attempting to get a deal going with the tiny start up over the flawed client in a case where they've got a snowball's chance. But it's Canada in early March, snowballs have a longer lifespan.
As circumstances play out Novak and the young shysters have to join forces. If you've watched the original Street Legal you know Olivia Novak is a mix of good and evil of varying degrees depending upon if she gets crossed, by whom and what the settlement is. When she is cornered she can show signs of vulnerability. After that you wouldn't want to be the one who is doing the cornering.
So you put the lioness in a smaller cage to fight for scraps? The X factor is how she'll co-exist with a group of younger lions Lilly Rue (Cara Ricketts), Adam Darling (Steve Lund) and Mina Lee (Yvonne Chapman). Presumably the writing will give the younger lawyers a chance to assert themselves whilst letting Olivia be Olivia. As fans of the series upon which this is a spin-off of know, Olivia Novak is most certainly capable of being vindictive and payback can be called a certain thing that she too has been called.
If one finds anything lacking in this production I cannot say it is because it is less than our best. These are our actors and they're good ones (Brilliant guest-stars included). One of our best directors (Sturla Gunnarson) was at the helm. What you see is what we've got and what we've got is more than we used to have. The result of the debut episode gives us a solid start to this continuation (Or if you wanna say 'reboot'...I'd rather you didn't but, anyway...) of the very popular CBC TV series of exceptional quality and cultural resonance that ran from 1987 to 1994.
When it comes to any Canadian series what we see is part of a greater project whether everyone involved wants for it to be or not. Canadians want OUR stories, told by us, starring us. It isn't just a patriotism thing, and it isn't just a visibility thing. But for some reason some of us think of it as petty. When we get something good (And fundamentally, it looks like that is what this is, and will continue to be) then we have something to crow about. If we get something bad we begin to wonder if the tax credits and broadcasting time quotas which are supposed to be incentive for the making of it are a good idea anymore.
Like any Canadian series, whether it is good OR bad is not necessarily an indicator of whether people will watch it. The schedule against American commercial television does not favour ANY Canadian competition. We just can't match it in terms of production value and countless other things. But it can find a following online as people can watch the episodes free on the website of our national broadcaster. We didn't have that before and we certainly need it more now.
The part about watching it online will be essential if it comes back in the fall. If it remains scheduled at 9pm on Monday nights much of whatever male audience there is won't be watching it at THAT time because of Monday Night Football and smatterings of other demographics will defect to the new fall line-up of other American shows in the time-slot. Everyone involved has to know that and I'm sure they know to manage their expectations.
This show could become binge-worthy and I think it will. Particularly it will find resonance when it connects people to the real life effects of what lawyers do which this initial offering ties it together efficiently.
But the issue of 'Diggstown' - yet another CBC TV series that is a legal drama , and debuts but 48 hours after this one, does raise questions. It features actor C.David Johnson - one of Street Legal's mainstay stars during it's run. It also has Natasha Henstridge (I still gots like a major crush on 'er, eh!). If Diggstown gets canned will Street Legal just raid it's cast, writing staff etc?
Note:
Toronto concert venue Cameron House (Among other local landmarks) has a cameo.
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