Melissa Rauch co-stars as the new night judge who recruits a down-on-his-luck Dan Fielding (Larroquette) as public defender.
had many things going for it. The Manhattan courtroom setting presented an array of cases that let the show shift from the outlandish to the topical, the ridiculous to the borderline sincere. The workplace ensemble was generally solid and, in the case of four-time Emmy winnerOne thing it didn’t have going for it was consistency. The broad humor could veer into hackiness, the attempts at candor could stray into mawkishness.
Shifts within the supporting cast meant that the writers were constantly trying, not always successfully, to tailor new parts to new actors, knowing that they would always be behind Larroquette in punchlines and Harry Anderson in screen time. This inconsistency was especially pronounced if you experienced, as so many viewers did, primarily in syndication; one episode would lead you to think this was one of the best shows of its era and the next would be pure drivel.
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