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The Firm, episode 5: so, you had a bad day?

The Firm Episode 5

Looks like someone’s got a case of the Mondays: besides seriously lacking sex this week, Mitch McDeere gets closer to breaking from his mostly pristine image—exactly what we’ve been waiting for. Mitch gets a little cranky when he’s being interrogated for murder, ’cause what’s a litigator to do without his motley crew (including his brother, who keeps stumbling upon evidence to help Mitch solve cases) and late-night mystery-solving dinners? An honest man would ride it out, but Mitch just gets angry. More on the worst week of his life after the jump.

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The Firm, episode 4: the black sheep cometh

The Firm Episode 4

It seems like by now we should probably have found something that bothers us about Mitch McDeere. But despite last week’s secrets and this week’s murder charge (remember that guy who threw himself over the balcony in episode one? Evidently, if you flee after a man throws himself off a balcony, it’ll seem like you killed him), it seems that Mitch, with his good looks and gentle demeanor (we know, right? Gentle, even with a mob boss who wants to kill him—ladies, he’s taken), is every man’s nemesis and every young litigator’s shining beacon of hope. While we’re lost in his dreamy, arrogance-free gaze, there’s the matter of his boorish brother Ray to wrap our heads around. Our take on Ray, Mitch’s black sheep brother, and how you can use desk sex to get what you want in our TV brief after the jump.

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The Firm, episode 3: morning sex

The FirmEpisode 3

Imagine being married to Mitch McDeere. Sure, your husband’s one handsome litigator, but his years spent hiding in witness protection and living in fear of impending death has got to take its toll on a person. Abby McDeere deserves a medal, but in episode 3, she gets morning sex instead. Sex, abandonment and the first real sign of why we’re supposed to even care about these characters in our TV brief after the jump.

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The Firm, episode 2: wherein a menacing bald man seeks absolution for killing some girls

The Firm Episode 2

The suspense is palpable on this week’s Run, Mitch McDeere, Run The Firm, as we’re introduced to Brian, a tortured young man who admits to Mitch that he accidentally hit his girlfriend, Amy, with his car and stashed her body at a lake house (what an opening—but sadly, it wasn’t this lake house). Our TV brief and our Objections and Order in the Court checklist after the jump.

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The Firm, episode 1: wherein one man tries to do it all, like be a father and not get killed

The Firm Episode 1

If you’ve grown tired of reliving Tom Cruise’s glory days by watching a John Grisham adaptation, but the courtroom still brings you joy, it is time to sit back and bask in the wonder of NBC’s romp through the legal underworld known as The Firm (and while you’re watching, try to spot Toronto landmarks, since it was shot here, and ask yourself how many more times the characters can say “the Firm,” because they say it a lot). The show—starring Canadians Shaun Majumder and Tricia Helfer and big names like Josh Lucas, Molly Parker, Callum Keith Rennie and Juliette Lewis—follows lawyer Mitch McDeere (Lucas) as he battles the demons of his past and the villains of his present, all the while trying to juggle family life, achieve financial success and address the ethical dilemmas he faces as a public defender at an elite firm. A suggested alternative title for The Firm? I Don’t Know How He Does It. The tagline: “Be careful Mitch McDeere, because your new lawyer colleagues at the Firm are determined to hide a major crime from you, and also the mob would like you dead.” Our TV brief and our Order in the Court and Objections checklist after the jump.

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