Harry's Law

First of all this show is down right terrible and the evidence couldn’t be more obvious in the first few minutes. A young man trying to kill himself jumps from a building and lands on Harriet “Harry” Korn (Kathy Bates), our lead character who is fired from her job as a patent lawyer because she’s bored and depressed with it, smoking pot in her office and watching cartoons.

Of course she survives the fall. “A black man fell from the sky and landed on her head” says her assistant, Jenna (Brittany Snow). Barely bruised, Harry is released and almost immediately is hit by a car driven by Adam (Nate Corddry), who will eventually work for Harry because he found her awesome as a patent lawyer and the show apparently needs one more comic foil. He signs on for “the chance to pick your nose for two weeks -- I mean brain there…” As for the accident that sent her flying, she landed on a mattress on a mover’s truck. “It doesn’t make any medical sense to me, but you’re fine,” says the doctor.Nothing makes any sense in this ridiculous new TV series. It’s a David Kelley show. Where once his relentless quirkiness, belief in passionate lawyer-speak and willingness to crash tones together seemed original.

In Kelley’s world, what happens to Bates in the first few minutes sends up absolutely no red flags. And there’s apparently no one around him to say that rarest of words successful show creators need to sometimes hear: “No.”