Lucas is actually quite good as Mitch, as is Molly Parker ("Deadwood") as his wife, Abby. Watch video The Firm Season 1, Episode 17 Chapter Seventeen On NBC. Free Download Video The Firm 19th May 2012 Online Tv Live Streaming Video .Online Watch The Firm Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV .The Firm" were starting as an original story about Mitch McDeere (Josh Lucas, in his first TV work in more than a decade) coming out of witness protection after making a bad mistake earlier in his life, it might work better than it does. But it's not -- it picks up the story from Grisham's 1991 best-seller (or more accurately, the 1993 movie based on the novel that starred Tom Cruise) after a decade (although it's the present day, not, say, 2002). And because it comes with that baggage, there's kind of a disconnect between the story we know and what we see on screen now.t's not just that Lucas ("The Lincoln Lawyer," "Glory Road") doesn't look like Tom Cruise, or that his assistant Tammy (Juliette Lewis) is no longer a southerner.
The episode begins with Abby talking to Andrew about resenting Mitch. Andrew tells her that is understandable, as she was tortured. Andrew tells Abby that Mitch is a good lawyer because of the way he approaches things. Abby reasons that, being a good lawyer doesn’t necessarily mean being a good husband. The two then hug, just then Abby sees Andrew’s blood stained shirt, and the blood that get smeared on her shirt owing to her having hugged Andrew. Abby then finds herself imagining all this while taking a shower. Next Abby takes a few prescription tablets from a bottle. Later, Mitch tells Abby that Diane wants to prep her up a bit, before she takes the stand.
Like many series on the air today, The Firm has both standalone plots and an overarching mythology that will be threaded throughout the show. There's plenty of mileage in the mafia and conspiracies; shows have gotten seasons of story out of those concepts. I'm not too concerned with the longevity of the mythology just yet; considering that so many series rarely get out of their first seasons, I'm going to see if The Firm gets to year two before I worry about what that second run might look like. I place more importance on the fact that the characters are watchable, which is what will get the show to that sophomore season. I'm not interested in how twisty a show's plot is if I don't care whether or not the hero survives it.
Josh Lucas is a pleasure in the lead role. He has a strength to him that we can feel; the audience might not understand the ins and outs of criminal defense, but we do believe in Mitch. One of the things that Lucas does well is show the difference between who an attorney is in court and who he is outside of it. There can be vast differences between the persona and the person. We know Mitch's heart isn't in turning the stabbing victim into a perpetrator, but we can't tell it from his convincing cross-examination of the prosecution's star witness. We do see him struggle with it both before and after the fact.
At least he's not alone. In addition to Abby, who is an equal rather than merely 'the wife,' there's Tammy (Juliette Lewis), his secretary and the longtime girlfriend of his ex-con brother, Ray (Battlestar Galactica's Callum Keith Rennie). They're a bunch of misfits if there ever was one, but somehow they're getting by. It's clear that he's cultivated a good reputation, as a judge refers to him as both a "good human being" and a "very talented" litigator. His friend Andrew Palmer (Shaun Majumder) wants Mitch to join his firm, but he's more than a little gunshy.Imagine a thriller about a young lawyer, near the top of his law-school class, who takes a job at a seemingly genteel firm -- for a huge salary -- only to find out that it's a front for the mob, and that every lawyer who tries to leave ends up dead.
The episode begins with Abby talking to Andrew about resenting Mitch. Andrew tells her that is understandable, as she was tortured. Andrew tells Abby that Mitch is a good lawyer because of the way he approaches things. Abby reasons that, being a good lawyer doesn’t necessarily mean being a good husband. The two then hug, just then Abby sees Andrew’s blood stained shirt, and the blood that get smeared on her shirt owing to her having hugged Andrew. Abby then finds herself imagining all this while taking a shower. Next Abby takes a few prescription tablets from a bottle. Later, Mitch tells Abby that Diane wants to prep her up a bit, before she takes the stand.
Like many series on the air today, The Firm has both standalone plots and an overarching mythology that will be threaded throughout the show. There's plenty of mileage in the mafia and conspiracies; shows have gotten seasons of story out of those concepts. I'm not too concerned with the longevity of the mythology just yet; considering that so many series rarely get out of their first seasons, I'm going to see if The Firm gets to year two before I worry about what that second run might look like. I place more importance on the fact that the characters are watchable, which is what will get the show to that sophomore season. I'm not interested in how twisty a show's plot is if I don't care whether or not the hero survives it.
Josh Lucas is a pleasure in the lead role. He has a strength to him that we can feel; the audience might not understand the ins and outs of criminal defense, but we do believe in Mitch. One of the things that Lucas does well is show the difference between who an attorney is in court and who he is outside of it. There can be vast differences between the persona and the person. We know Mitch's heart isn't in turning the stabbing victim into a perpetrator, but we can't tell it from his convincing cross-examination of the prosecution's star witness. We do see him struggle with it both before and after the fact.
At least he's not alone. In addition to Abby, who is an equal rather than merely 'the wife,' there's Tammy (Juliette Lewis), his secretary and the longtime girlfriend of his ex-con brother, Ray (Battlestar Galactica's Callum Keith Rennie). They're a bunch of misfits if there ever was one, but somehow they're getting by. It's clear that he's cultivated a good reputation, as a judge refers to him as both a "good human being" and a "very talented" litigator. His friend Andrew Palmer (Shaun Majumder) wants Mitch to join his firm, but he's more than a little gunshy.Imagine a thriller about a young lawyer, near the top of his law-school class, who takes a job at a seemingly genteel firm -- for a huge salary -- only to find out that it's a front for the mob, and that every lawyer who tries to leave ends up dead.