Harry Hamlin, who was so good for several years as a trial attorney/law firm partner on "L. A. Law", excels here, stretching as a former U. S. Senator with serious anger control issues regarding women, as well as his own family.
This episode is a welcome departure of the wooden Nina Cassidy character after one season. A photograph of her one facial expression could have stood in for her season-long role. Very rare poor casting for this great series, but also recognized and promptly corrected.
Very uncharacteristic of the series' usual technical excellence is the distracting sound of every single step on the courtroom floor during Alana de la Garza's (ADA Rubirosa) dynamite summation to the jury. The clump-clump-clump of her heels comes through a poorly-placed or over-attenuated mic, not recognized during editing.
Jeffrey Tambor shines as an obviously partisan political hack chosen to fill a judgeship, not that that would ever happen in real life, of course.
This episode is a welcome departure of the wooden Nina Cassidy character after one season. A photograph of her one facial expression could have stood in for her season-long role. Very rare poor casting for this great series, but also recognized and promptly corrected.
Very uncharacteristic of the series' usual technical excellence is the distracting sound of every single step on the courtroom floor during Alana de la Garza's (ADA Rubirosa) dynamite summation to the jury. The clump-clump-clump of her heels comes through a poorly-placed or over-attenuated mic, not recognized during editing.
Jeffrey Tambor shines as an obviously partisan political hack chosen to fill a judgeship, not that that would ever happen in real life, of course.