Harry's Law (TV Series) After the Lovin' (2012) User Reviews

Unemotional Rebuttal to "Poor Comeback Episode"

[bwalborn-13530 · 10/10 · 17 February 2023]

First, the storyline where Tommy is deposed by a woman he told he was impotent, then after some time just cuddling, he said she "woke a sleeping giant" and we all know what then occurred. In the deposition, she questions Tommy, represented by Ollie, and after lengthy questions where he incriminates himself repeatedly, you see a glimpse of how Tommy really thinks and yes, feels, and I found it totally unexpected that there is a realness to Tommy after the surface is scratched. That got the episode their first four stars. Another storyline was a father wants visitation and he cleverly disguises his scare tactics towards his ex-wife so a protection order is not granted. Cassie interviews the daughter in the case living with the mother and after several questions asks her what she would like to happen, and she pauses and says it would be best for him to just go away. He then storms Cassie's office and due to her response to his very forceful and threatening language, she gives right back to him what he could expect if he showed up at her house. Consequently, Cassie is asked by the judge to recuse herself. Then she is called to come to the client's house in the night, where he has been shot to death by a gun rigged to go off if the door is opened. She tells Cassie that she rigged it, but checked several times and it was unloaded when she went to bed. The mother and Cassie go to the daughter's room and she is viewing a video of her father singing to her and looking at the camera, which the mother has seen, and the father looks at the mother with a several second long look of evil, even though the daughter knows her father has been killed, nonetheless she is viewing this video. The daughter's face shows calmness with the barest hint of a smile, and tells Cassie and her mother she is fine, it's all good. That was beyond eerie, in terms of the direction given by the director, which multiplies the eerieness of the scene by ten, which earned this storyline four more stars. Finally, the last storyline is about a man suing a tobacco company for his wife's death due to lung cancer. No one expects the plaintiff to win a large settlement, just one offered to shut him up. The day of the deposition, the tobacco company's lawyer, who is from Harry's former firm where she was fired, shows up with a nail sticking out of his temple. His explanation, which he delivers laughingly, self-deprecatingly, and full of smiles and guffaws at his own little jokes, was that he used a nail gun and obviously didn't use it correctly. This seems so out of the character of this man to Harry and demands he be taken to the hospital. He has the nail removed during an operation and is released yet that same day. He arrives at Harry's office, with a bandage on his temple, and gives Harry the opportunity to name her settlement price, which she quotes $3M to him. He, then, says he deals in non-round numbers and says $3.1M or $2.9M, half upfront and half in six months. Harry agrees, and has the papers drawn up which Adam believes should be against the firm's mission and moral statement, even though they have none. Harry sees what is transpiring and goes in to ask who called the meeting. Adam says he did, and Harry tells him he had no authority to do so, and he says that Harry put him in charge of administrative duties, so he called the meeting. Then Harry pauses and walks to Adam and says in a low voice, yet just loud enough for the others to hear, that this is all about Ollie sleeping with Adam's girlfriend. Adam let's that soak in and leaves the room, and Harry follows. When she catches up to Adam, she tells him that he is right about the firm needing a mission statement, but the tobacco company is still going to part with the complete $3.1M, then they will go from that moment on with a mission statement. As she is leaving Adam's office, Harry tells him he is good, and repeats it a second time for emphasis, and says that he's not fired this time. Then she says aloud to herself that she shoukd have asked for $5M. It is a combination of great writing, acting, and direction that makes this episode complete, and you can see the foreshadowing of the creation of "Boston Legal," after the fact, of course. This last storyline earns the episode four stars. All these things are the reasons I give this episode 12 stars, but alas, the scale only goes up to 10!!

**1/2 for this Reconvening-Harry's Law

[edwagreen · 6/10 · 11 March 2012]

Disappointing opening show after an over a month hiatus.

Tommy Jefferson is being sued by his ex-girlfriend who claimed he told her and others he was impotent.

A man whose wife died from smoking is suing the tobacco company only to find that when the attorney for the company has a nail put through his head in an accident, he has a change of heart and is willing to immediately settle. Adam questions Harry's ethics in rushing the settlement as he feels the attorney has taken leave of his senses.

The third story was even more awkward. An ex-wife fears that her former husband will do her harm. The ending where we see The Bad Seed revisited is most eerie and unfortunately inappropriate.

It's nice to have the show back, but let's get back to the scripts we hand previously.

Poor comeback episode

[reddragon-14 · 5/10 · 13 March 2012]

This episode was not up to par considering the lengthly hiatus. Gee, what an original idea going after an easy target a "big tobacco" company. "This poor man's wife smoked for 35 years and cigarettes killed her" Well duh! 35 years means she started in 1977 well after the surgeon generals report in 1964. Adds on TV stopped in the 70's. The tobacco companies set aside billions for these kinds of cases. As far as I'm concerned she should have known this was coming. No sympathy here. There are two kinds of people in this world, non-smokers and damn fools. Now the story line with the "lonely Tommy". He's lonely because he's a self-centered, arrogant ass, and only similar women are attracted to him. And finally the third storyline, yes actually did three, didn't get much time to flesh it out character-wise, the mom was dumb enough to not change the alarm code or the door locks to prevent her husbands access, resorts to a booby trap (illegal in most states), says she hadn't loaded the gun, and surprise, surprise her daughter had everyone fooled, loaded the gun shot her daddy herself. Harriet threatening to fire Adam is getting to be too much. He should just walk if she does it again. He could get hired anywhere, he's just as good as Harry.