Perfect show for DVD watching since it has one long story strand over the first season. Daniel Benzali is a knock out as the super defending lawyer - bald head and ferocious looking, nonetheless often like a big cuddly teddy bear, a combination of Santa and Clarence Darrow. There is also excellent support from Stanley Tucci as a David Geffen like millionaire, Dylan Baker as a detective (there's a scene where he chats with a young girl and it makes you quiver after having seen Baker in Happiness), John Fleck as Benzali's devoted gay secretary (their warm relationship is a real delight), Barbara Blossom as the "mum" type of prosecutor, and the guy who plays the creepy shrink. Decent acting from others except maybe two of Benzali's team who seem a bit graduate-of-QUT, the girl with bug eyes and her boyfriend (the other two ingenues were a bit better, Mary McCormick and the kind of funny looking guy).
You do kind of wish the law firm would lose at least one case. Some later favourites pop up in support roles, such as Brittany Murphy and Richard Schiff.
I couldn't pick the killer and there were twists all up to the end. Also many enjoyable shafts at the legal system post OJ.
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