Just Legal

Baruchel... plays Ross with a winningly earnest goofiness, while Johnson skillfully navigates the darkly comic territory of being over the hill and irritated by everything and everyone who reminds him of his glory days.

Mr. Johnson is surprisingly deft, and even at times poignant, in the part. Even when the plot and other characters turn cartoonish, he manages to strike a deeper chord.

There's promise here, as long as it gets grittier and funnier, and doesn't descend into bombast.

It's rather old-fashioned, except that there's something real about the chemistry.

By no means is "Just Legal" a top-notch drama as yet, but it certainly has potential to be agreeable lighter fare.

It's a formulaic, lazily devised legal series that fails to surprise or amuse.

Give it credit for consistency: a bad concept, badly written for bad actors.