From Josh Berman and Allie Hagan comes Notorious, ABC’s newest legal drama. Based on the real relationship between Larry King Live producer Wendy Walker and celebrity defense attorney Mark Geragos, Notorious stars Piper Perabo as Julia George, a “tough as nails” cable news producer of Louise Herrick Live, and Daniel Sunjata as shifty lawyer Jake Gregorian. Together the pair shapes the news and the public’s sentiment by deciding which stories to air and how they air them. The premise sounds interesting enough and follows a well-worked formula, yet the show fails with both critics and fans, and is already cut down to ten episodes.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Shonda Rhimes owns both primetime and ABC. Since the arrival of Grey’s Anatomy in 2005, Shondaland has produced a number of hits for the network, and many shows have tried to emulate that success. Notorious is one of those. The show is packed tightly in between Grey’s and How To Get Away With Murder, meant for the perfect lead-in and lead-out, thanks …show more content…
They do terrible things one minute, like sleeping with their client’s wife or incriminating a man on live TV (or even showing said man’s private, unhinged video on air), and then doubt him or herself the next. A way to fix this and one’s decision to take the show at face value is to darken the show. In How To Get Away With Murder, the show is dark in both characterization and look. So much in fact that one does not watch Annalise Keating and truly think that that’s how a lawyer behaves on a daily basis. She does terrible things to protect herself and her students, yet there’s still empathy awarded to her as her motives are justifiable and she was human weakness. That being said, she isn’t an actively adored character. By making Julia or Jake, or even both, lions ready to pounce instead of unaware and amusing co-conspirators, the show will get a needed layer of
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Shonda Rhimes owns both primetime and ABC. Since the arrival of Grey’s Anatomy in 2005, Shondaland has produced a number of hits for the network, and many shows have tried to emulate that success. Notorious is one of those. The show is packed tightly in between Grey’s and How To Get Away With Murder, meant for the perfect lead-in and lead-out, thanks …show more content…
They do terrible things one minute, like sleeping with their client’s wife or incriminating a man on live TV (or even showing said man’s private, unhinged video on air), and then doubt him or herself the next. A way to fix this and one’s decision to take the show at face value is to darken the show. In How To Get Away With Murder, the show is dark in both characterization and look. So much in fact that one does not watch Annalise Keating and truly think that that’s how a lawyer behaves on a daily basis. She does terrible things to protect herself and her students, yet there’s still empathy awarded to her as her motives are justifiable and she was human weakness. That being said, she isn’t an actively adored character. By making Julia or Jake, or even both, lions ready to pounce instead of unaware and amusing co-conspirators, the show will get a needed layer of