Your Honor

The show is at its finest when allowing its stellar cast to simmer, stew, and boil over with fury and agony, both alone and in the presence of each other.

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

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.

Cranston is, unsurprisingly, superb here, as is the rest of the exceptional cast. Unfortunately, much of the material they are working with in Your Honor — developed by Peter Moffat, the British playwright and screenwriter who wrote Criminal Justice, the series that inspired The Night Of — contains so many familiar crime TV elements that it bends toward the tropey. ... The series is not without its compelling moments, though, particularly in the first episode, when Adam gets himself into the trouble that sets up everything that comes next.

Everyone in this cast is tremendous. Cranston and Martindale are especially delectable. ... Beyond these performances, however, isn't much. And ultimately the paucity of substance is obscured by meaty acting becomes this drama's undoing.

Dumb premise threatens to sink promising series.

With a little bit less Cranston, a whole lot of confusing storytelling and characters that haven’t gotten any deeper than in Season 1, Your Honor‘s final season feels like an idea that was best left as just that: an idea.

OK so much of this is unrealistic and that there are so many blenders that these characters make. But honestly I can’t stop watching and I can’t wait for the next episode so that’s something. It’s almost like oh my god what’s gonna happen next.

it's entertaining and watchable if you keep constantly pressing that right arrow button (that is, about 20% of it is watchable). main issues: -too SLOOOW. i guess it's personal preference. i can't imagine spending time watching constant endless scenes where absolutely nothing happens -most of the show is filmed in some kind of semi-darkness, which becomes annoying pretty quickly. you need to constantly strain your eyes to understand what actually exactly the hell is happening there. it feels like they had an agenda to seriously save on lighting when filming the show. -too many laughably non-believable situations. my favorite is when they sort large drug quantities with window blinds open so someone can sneak and take a picture of the room. -oh man and that grown up woman playing a 17-year old... lol

I haven't seen this. I just keep accidentally clicking on the rating bar on mobile and it instantly rates it and I don't think I can remove it.

Your Honor weaves a tangled web and gets itself caught. The show has so many subplots that it becomes overly complicated. Most of the characters are one dimensional and depicted as having no life or motivation outside of the main plot. But kudos to all the black actors for their skills and abilities to being the listless, one dimensional writing to life. Hollywood needs to end the practice of pigeon-holing back actors into roles as thugs and gangsters and give these wonderful actors a chance at bigger and better roles. Suffice to say, the plot of your honor is trying to show the corruption and entanglements among societies elites; judges, police, crime families, politicians, prisons, and prosecutors. The biggest irony is that same plot is glaringly present in Hollywood itself. The TV and movie industry should take a look in the mirror: and end the good ole boys system of promoting and promulgating certain people, stories, ideas. While suppressing and overlooking the vast, untapped, talent available in this country and around the world.

Got halfway through episode 4 and couldn't watch anymore. Found Bryan Cranston unconvincing, trying to hard to come across as a lot younger than he actually is. The story was repetitive and ever time something could go wrong it did. Overall boring to watch, with characters that just weren't interesting enough.