The Firm
The Firm
TV-14 | 08 January 2012 (USA)
SEASON & EPISODES
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    bengans

    For more. When will it continue? "Sorry, your review is too short." Why ? Can you blame me for that good TV series is just one season.

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    SnoopyStyle

    This follows the events of the John Grisham's novel "The Firm" 10 years later. Mitchell McDeere (Josh Lucas) had brought down the Chicago mob's Memphis law firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke. The McDeeres had stayed in the Federal Witness Protection Program and left. Now they are reemerging to start a new law firm.Callum Keith Rennie plays his brother Ray. Molly Parker plays his wife Abby. Juliette Lewis plays his brash secretary Tammy. They are all great actors doing a good job. Juliette Lewis is able to add a bit of flashiness. If there is a problem, it's probably the lower budget Toronto production. It's just not up to snuff. I do appreciate the less flashy production values, but I doubt the general public liked it. The low ratings would indicate they didn't.

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    Meredith Johnsen

    This show is A-mazing! The best show that's aired in TV in a long, long, long time! I have been totally hooked on nit this season and am beyond sad to hear that they're going to cancel it. Don't understand! It's something I look forward to every weekend...and NOT for a lack of other things to do.So many shows these days seem like they're trying too hard, whereas this one seems great, effortlessly. It's just plain entertaining...without needing the superfluous nudity, profanity, etc. to make people watch it. You will not miss out on entertainment or drama with this show. It would really be a SHAME to cancel the show. To the powers that be...PLEASE reconsider. Figure out season 2. There is nothing else on TV that even begins to compare!

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    blanche-2

    I don't remember much about the film "The Firm," and I didn't read the book. This TV series takes up where the film and book left off, with Mitch McDeere (Josh Lucas) deciding to opt out of witness protection after the mobster who wanted him dead dies himself. He and his family, Abby (Molly Parker), their daughter Claire (Natasha Calis), his brother Ray (Callum Keith Rennie), a detective, and Ray's girlfriend Tammy (Juliette Lewis) come home. Mitch opens a private practice, but soon joins forces with a large law firm when he gets a case that could turn into a class action suit.There's lots going on in this show -- it's told in flashback, and we're shown some very intriguing flash forwards that the story is leading up to. One of Mitch's assigned cases is of a young woman accused of killing a wealthy old lady she had just met; the large firm has some sort of interest in this case, but as yet, we don't know why. And while the mobster is dead, his son has just taken over. Will he want a contract put out on Mitch and his family? We don't know at the time of this writing. And other cases come and go. Plus stuff happening on the family front.Josh Lucas is very strong as Mitch, and I absolutely love Molly Parker as his wife - a wonderful, graceful presence. Juliette Lewis, as Ray's sexy girlfriend who doesn't look much like a receptionist, is great, as is Rennie as Ray.I keep reading this show is going to be canceled. Gee, I hope we get to see the whole season.

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