The Deep End just premiered on ABC. Bitter Lawyer already took care of everything you needed to know about the show going in.
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We’re not going to insult your intelligence by pointing out all the discrepancies between the show and the reality (although we welcome you to do that in the comments).
Unfortunately, we just couldn’t get past that – and our mothers taught us not to say anything at all if we didn’t have anything nice to say.
After the jump, a (very) few nice things.
- They sure do dress nice
- We’re glad to see Mehcad Brooks has found gainful employment after he was slaughtered on True Blood
- The commercials for Lost looked intriguing
- The Deep End will still probably be better than Legal Ease
We’ll set the over/under at 6 episodes. What did you think?
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This is the worst show I have ever seen. It was, at best, science fiction. The dialogue is awful, the plot is completely unrealistic and the characters are wooden to the point where I think Billy Zane might actually benefit from some sanding.
First off, the ethical violations in this single episode would be enough to completely sink the firm. You give a case to a first-year without any supervision (ethical violation 1), but the client is opposed to another client of the firm (ethical violation 2), so the managing partner decided that the "rich" client should win (ethical violation 3). The first-year goes to court on his first day, without having a full background of the case (ethical violation 4) without supervision (violation 5), and since we know he is a first year and just started, he CANNOT have passed the bar yet (violation 6). THEN, once he loses because he was ill-prepared (not really a violation, but stupid), he has an ex-parte conversation with the judge (7!) — and it really starts to go down-hill from there.
Then, let's talk about the sex. Sex with a client. Shouldn't these kids have just taken the MPRE? It says in black and white "do not have sex with clients." But instead, you have a first-year who is not only courting clients (haha!), but also has sex with them (at least two that we know of) and is somehow forgiven this trespass by a senior partner. If I so much as looked at a client cross-wise I'd be fired — but I'm not nearly as attractive as these people.
Then let's discuss the sex during the workday at the firm. We have sex with a secretary in a room with glass walls without locking the door. We have sex in a similar room early in the evening, without locking the door or pulling the shades, when there would be tons of people — including cleaning staff, around.
You can't make this shit up it's so bad.
Then, let's talk about the girl who gets arrested for setting off the metal detector! What court-house security doesn't have a wand. They would frisk you and then let you go to file your brief. Then she's arrested, but miraculously gets back to the firm?!?!? What? Hello. Is this thing on? Seriously?
THEN, she gets an email which tells her to finish her other assignment or get fired — which is the first reasonable thing I saw on this show. BUT, they promptly ruined this setup when, instead of sitting in her office at 2am writing the brief (which she was planning on finishing that day anyway, so it can't have been too involved), she and the rest go out to a bar having obviously taken the time to change clothes. If you were just told to finish something or be fired, would you go to a bar? Would your friends? Maybe. . .it's possible that I'm just judging this harshly because the rest was so awful.
Oh, and last thing, I have NEVER, EVER, had any success with the "hey, i'm a lawyer" pick-up line.
This show should be canceled immediately, the writers should be shot, and whoever decided to put it on the air should seek counseling.
Tell us how you really feel!
I realized this morning that this show is a spiritual heir to Gossip Girl (or maybe Melrose Place) not Grey’s Anatomy or Boston Legal. Is it any better in that light?
Je crois pas.
Just watching the commercials for this show wanted to make me barf. I didn't watch the show because my unemployed brain is tortured enough and my stomach after reading all the recent news stories is upset already and the idea of watching this show would make me hurl.