I was looking forward to this because I'm a fan of Julianna Margulies' previous work.
What a disappointment!! It's all I could to keep my eyes open through the pilot.
The script was clunky and clearly would have been better served by being a two-hour pilot. The characters were poorly drawn, with very little given to the actors to use. The photography was very poor, with many shots extremely grainy or out-of-focus or plain badly lit.
But most galling was the poor directing by Mike Figgis, who joins a longer and longer list of "feature directors" doing a very poor job directing a pilot. The show had no visual style to speak of, unless shaking the camera and underlighting all the scenes in Canterbury's Office is supposed to pass off as a style.
On the plus side, James McCaffrey was excellent as usual, so was Julianna, but Ben Shankman killed every scene he was in. He looked like he was fresh from amateur hour.
I might give it another try, but I doubt this will last more than a few episodes.
Yet another disappointment in a horrible season for network TV.
