The show begins with the students being grilled by Kingfield about a case. However, Kingsfield insists that the students have NOT understood the case and it seems as if he is telling them the book is wrong. But that cannot be--so Hart and some other overachievers spend the show trying to solve this problem. At the same time, Bell (James Keane) has fallen head over heels for an old friend of Hart--a woman who's just left her husband. He thinks of nothing but the lady and is worthless to his study group to work on Kingsfield's problem. How all this is worked out is something you'll have to see for yourself.
This is a decent episode of "The Paper Chase" but it does have a couple plot problems that keep me from rating it a bit higher. First, Bell seems a bit hard to believe as his character is a bit one-dimensional and silly. Second, there is a supposedly insurmountable conundrum that Kingsfield introduces and although the students worked and worked and worked to figure it out, I figured the problem out right away. I am NOT saying I am a genius--just that the way Kingsfield presented it made its solution pretty obvious. Worth seeing but not among the season's best shows.
This is a decent episode of "The Paper Chase" but it does have a couple plot problems that keep me from rating it a bit higher. First, Bell seems a bit hard to believe as his character is a bit one-dimensional and silly. Second, there is a supposedly insurmountable conundrum that Kingsfield introduces and although the students worked and worked and worked to figure it out, I figured the problem out right away. I am NOT saying I am a genius--just that the way Kingsfield presented it made its solution pretty obvious. Worth seeing but not among the season's best shows.