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Critic Reviews
Dec 4, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Cranston is a fine actor — I wouldn’t have hated Walter White so much if he weren’t — but his commitment to the role sometimes boils over in ways that overwhelm the production, which is largely slow and often silent. ... Not everything I’ve seen so far feels completely believable. ... Notwithstanding the above reservations, it’s a solid production, with a universally talented cast.
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ColliderDec 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
This isn't quite must-see TV, but rather, a highlight reel cherry-picked from various limited series of the past several years. Unless the show sticks its landing, this one-man jury won't object to anyone calling it a disappointment, though the case isn't closed just yet.
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The PlaylistNov 23, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Four hours into “Your Honor,” there’s a lot of potential for greatness to come balanced with reasonable concern given how much time is left on the clock. The ensemble could get richer and the story could get more thrilling, or it could spin its wheels until an action-packed finale. The four episodes sent have shown signs of both tendencies. In the end, the jury is still out.
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The IndependentFeb 3, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Nothing about Your Honor is actively bad – the acting, the plotting, the direction; all have the glossy veneer of “prestige TV” – and yet the sum of those parts is frustrating and unsatisfying. Perhaps they should’ve followed the advice of all good criminals and quit while they were ahead.
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Dec 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Cranston is, unsurprisingly, superb here, as is the rest of the exceptional cast. Unfortunately, much of the material they are working with in Your Honor — developed by Peter Moffat, the British playwright and screenwriter who wrote Criminal Justice, the series that inspired The Night Of — contains so many familiar crime TV elements that it bends toward the tropey. ... The series is not without its compelling moments, though, particularly in the first episode, when Adam gets himself into the trouble that sets up everything that comes next.
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Dec 4, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Occasionally—in the four episodes (of ten) that I’ve seen—that self-seriousness pays off and the series, adapted from an Israeli show by lauded British dramatist Peter Moffat, achieves a certain tragic gravitas. But much else plays as elegant pulp, rather than the credible, searing inquest into a city and its ills that the series might think it is.
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Dec 2, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Based on the first four episodes available for preview, “Your Honor” unfortunately doesn’t match the tension of that fateful early sequence. But the 10-episode series does serve up tasty performances, knotty ethical issues, attempts to explore racial injustice in the legal system, crime story theatrics and nagging questions about why its characters do what they do.
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Dec 4, 2020
Season 1 Review:
After the first episode, the cynical “Your Honor” becomes a little less painful to watch but also more predictable. ... The arrival of the always-welcome Margo Martindale in episode four immediately improves “Your Honor” but it’s not enough to overturn the initial verdict: “Your Honor” is guilty of being a major downer.
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IndieWireDec 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“Your Honor” over-invests in tension and under-invests in compassion. Moffat’s story clouds the morality questions evoked by the title’s double meaning, and asks you to see yourself in its characters while fast-forwarding through choices that skew just how honorable our protagonists were in the first place.
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TV Guide MagazineDec 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
No reasonable jury would acquit this series of its lapses in logic, but there are saving graces in the scene-stealing performances of Hope Davis as the mob family's Lady Macbeth and Margo Martindale as Michael's salty mother-in-law. [7 -20 Dec 2020, p.9]
Dec 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Bryan Cranston is such a good actor, we’d watch him read a library’s worth of law books rather than play out the story told here. It might not be that dramatic, but at least it wouldn’t be constantly reminding us how much better Breaking Bad was at exploring the same territory.
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Dec 3, 2020
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