A Televisual Feast

It’s the Jimmy Show as Jimmy goes to court against all odds and, dum dum dum, Bobby. Yes, Bobby sets up Lindsay to take over the case, while Ellenor, Rebecca and Eugene all become potted plants.

It’s not a bad episode–it’s the best of the last few–but it’s cheap. The whole thing relies on the trial being interesting enough to carry an episode and it isn’t. Weeks and weeks pass during this episode and the passage of time is never seen. It comes out in the expository dialogue, when Bobby’s bitching about Jimmy to Lindsay. Why Ellenor has totally disappeared from a case she’s supposed to be second chairing… it’s never addressed.

What Kelley does here is reduce the case to black and white. Jimmy, good. Clients, good. Judge, bad. Other lawyer, bad. Everyone but Jimmy, clients, and people who agree with Jimmy, bad.

It’s kind of offensive.

I mean, I get why Kelley did what he did, because you can’t have the movie ending on a weekly TV show too often (though he does it all the time–to great success–on “Boston Legal”), but what he does instead is worse. He makes the show silly and obvious.

But it’s still a heck of a lot better than usual.

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