... so when it is over I am going to watch the whole thing again.
This is John Lithgow's shining moment. He deserves an Emmy for this episode alone. I believed him 40 years ago when he played a transgendered person in "The World According to Garp", I believed him as an alien who answered to "A Big Giant Head" in "Third Rock", and I believe him in this show as a once prominent attorney who sees everything slipping away from him, not the least of which is his power of language and gamesmanship. Is he too proud to ask for help, or just that his insight tells him that he would be thrown a brick rather than a lifeline if he did? Probably some of both.
I'm even warming up to Perry Mason as a shell shocked gumshoe who really needs some hints in hygiene but who is a crafty PI. I'm still not sure who the villain is here, but there has got to be a reason the writers are devoting so much time to a Depression era megachurch.
Great acting and good writing in this episode. I'd recommend it.
This is John Lithgow's shining moment. He deserves an Emmy for this episode alone. I believed him 40 years ago when he played a transgendered person in "The World According to Garp", I believed him as an alien who answered to "A Big Giant Head" in "Third Rock", and I believe him in this show as a once prominent attorney who sees everything slipping away from him, not the least of which is his power of language and gamesmanship. Is he too proud to ask for help, or just that his insight tells him that he would be thrown a brick rather than a lifeline if he did? Probably some of both.
I'm even warming up to Perry Mason as a shell shocked gumshoe who really needs some hints in hygiene but who is a crafty PI. I'm still not sure who the villain is here, but there has got to be a reason the writers are devoting so much time to a Depression era megachurch.
Great acting and good writing in this episode. I'd recommend it.