Goliat

A series that is struggling to decide what it really wants to be. It would like to be a serious, complicated dramatic series on corporate law à la Damages. But it would also like to be about the charismatic alcohol wreckage that does not take herself so seriously that faces trauma and middle age crisis à la Californication (or now more like BoJack Horseman) and her family and relationship escapades in LA. In addition, a bit of sitcom,i.e. "lawyer and his whores are doing business on the fly" and to make matters worse, it would also like to reflect on something "social" through an insight into the private arms industry. And last but not least, it wants to be a series with a Bond style burnt überbad villain, who is watching the whole city through the cameras from the seclusion of his cave, pulls the strings, being arrogant to everyone, is burnt and has his own flunkies. Combining Damages with Californication on a paper is not a bad idea at all, but no matter how well the two lines work here, they work well only independently and not together as part of one whole. The legal one is like from a fairy tale, because a similar case would never have taken place within days/weeks and, of course, it would not be even miles away from the courtroom, but it does the job. That´s for sure. Dimension with bad corporations and Dr. No does not work at all. It´s a pure guilty pleasure. But ... It´s great to watch, the theme song is magnificent, every episode is fast-paced, weak moments are overshadowed by the duo Thornton / Arianda, strong culminating unrealistic (out of) court sequences full of personal resentment and vendetta. You won´t become bored by watching Billy Bob getting drunk, don´t giving a damn about everyone around him and using legal jargon at the same time. In other words, the movie would only benefited from a greater script unity and in that case it would be really entertaining. But only providing that you have already finished watching all those twenty other law series. | S1: 3/5 | (12.09.2017)