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The Deep End – Season 1
ABC's Grey's Anatomy in a Law Firm aired in the midseason of 2010
This dramatic comedy follows four or five young new lawyers who enter one of the most prestigious law firms in Los Angeles. The lucky four consists of Dylan (Matt Long), Addy (Tina Majorino), Beth (Leah Pipes) and Liam (Ben Lawson) everyone of them come from very different backgrounds. Their boss is Cliff Huddle (Billy Zane), also known as the Prince of Darkness, a senior partner at the firm. But when Huddle’s partner Hart Sterling (Clancy Brown) returns after a long hiatus, he’s ready to shake thing up. This series combines a complex personal and professional lives with the greedy world of Law.
Episode 01: Pilot
Already reviewed by me during the midseason pilots. Click here for more. 4/10
The Deep End: A Mixture of Grey’s Anatomy and L.A. Law. And Boring
Tina Majorino is the only reason to watch this show
Well, ABC, that was a big fail. Until yesterday, when I watched the pilot episode of this new legal drama, I didn’t even know something about this series. I never saw ads, I never saw a trailer and obviously ABC didn’t even gave some information about the show during their upfronts. I really heard about that show for the first time yesterday. And it wouldn’t have been a shame to not hear from it again, because the first 42 minutes were expectedly boring.
The Deep End follows the lives of five eager and young first-year associates in a top Los Angeles law firm, which brings me to the conclusion that the series will copy every single story of Grey’s Anatomy in this series, and of course they steal something from every legal drama to have a bit court room feeling in it.
Let’s begin with the easy part: I don’t know much legal dramas, so I can’t say which legal drama The Deep End resembles, but it really is Grey’s Anatomy in the lawyer’s office. We already had Grey’s Anatomy in Space last summer and it looks like ABC wanted to try everything out, before they send the mothership Grey’s Anatomy to the graveyard of dead television series. After watching the first episode I can say that The Deep End will drive to the pathology way more sooner than Grey’s Anatomy.
The pilot episode had one-dimensional characters, too much stories, too much stereotypes and it is predictable as hell. Only Tina Majorino could convince me, but only because of the fact I am following her career for quite a while now and I am eager to see what she is doing next. But that doesn’t mean her character was good.
for graphic language, sexual references and depiction of fictional violence
