![]() ![]() I just kept recalling Lamar Johnson’s vitality in his brief time on the show, Kofi just one of the multiplying roster of Your Honor characters I wanted to follow for a while instead. ( Treme it is, most assuredly, not.)Įarly season bright spot character Kofi Jones’ mangled body is trotted out for abuse even after he’s dead, gory trial photos and graphic reenactments of his beating death at the worthless Carlo Baxter’s hands serving to illuminate only how tough things are for Judge Michael Desiato to endure. I’m reminded (as anyone would have to be) of fellow failed award-bait TV Low Winter Sun, its struggling Detroit’s most picturesque rot periodically deployed for “color.” During his time on the witness stand, Carlo Baxter appeals to the jurors’ lingering distrust of the NOPD, raising the memory of the police shooting “their own citizens during Katrina.” Carlo’s gambit is portrayed as an ineptly cynical ploy there, but Your Honor consistently and distastefully-and without irony-feints toward a similar connection to real civic tragedy that it hasn’t earned. Show of hands, who gave a damn about whether Adam chose Lilli Kay’s Fia or teacher Frannie ( Sofia Black D’Elia)? (Apart from the fact that Frannie’s technically a sex criminal.) Your Honor wants things both ways, but fails to make its drama equal to its milieu. ![]() As Michael stumbled with his feelings about Lee and his late wife over drinks, the romantic chatter chafed against just how shabby Your Honor’s use of New Orleans’ very real problems and those of its Black secondary characters was throughout. Throughout, there were times when the various familial and relationship beats of the story (Michael and Lee’s budding romance, Adam’s wan love triangle, Fia’s crises of faith in her God and her father) provoked irritation (edging into on outright contempt), despite the overall above-standard performances. Your Honor never established itself as much more than a plot-delivery device, the noble efforts of the actors involved only serving to spotlight what a shoddy framework the series’ source material is. ![]()
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