Your Honor

Intriguing and thought-provoking, “Your Honor” should get families to consider how far they’d go to protect a loved one.

“Your Honor” is complicated, but good complicated: The impulses of the players are understandable. And even though the means are ruthless and the ends seemingly inevitable, one can still be startled by how things play out.

The acting in Your Honor is fine, although it’s an interesting choice that neither Cranston nor almost anyone else attempts the Nawlins drawl.

Small nuggets of mystery blended together with an intense storyline and a brilliant performance from Cranston make “Your Honor” an intriguing series.

Even when the intertwining storylines grow ever more tangled and veer into the outlandish, these fine actors sell every line they speak. It’s great acting in a just-pretty-good show.

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.

With a sterling cast and a fairly propulsive narrative, Your Honor has enough strong elements to keep you watching and engaged, even as nearly every beat feels like something you've watched in a half-dozen previous shows.

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.

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.