The Rainmaker

The Friday night time slot is just right for this show. It is a decently fun and non-taxing way to wind down your work week; it moves at a pretty good pace, the plot lines are just about believable, and the characters, overall, are likeable. But this show has one real problem: the so-called "soundtrack". My guess is that the producers are too cheap to have an original soundtrack, something that actually accompanies and helps shape the overall feel of a production. What we get is a collection of random snippets from random artists (mostly Country), probably culled and assembled by one of the producers kids. The overall effect is distracting and very annoying...and why god created your remote's mute button.

The show has promise i will admit. Unlike suits we see cases overarch through multiple episodes and the mystery of Dan Foglers nurse character.

John Slattery definitely carries the actors in scenes. The lunch scene with him dropping the fries to "define our relationship" to the first year associate asking for a favor was greatly written and delivered by him perfectly.

Contrary wise in the scene with Baylor talking to his soon to be client the writers pussied out. The opportunity was there for him to explode and tell that woman that she knows nothing about him and how he had to struggle to get where he was. Wouldve been a powerful excert considering the hits he's endured the whole episode. The whole "common enemy" bit killed the potential of the scene.

Don't listen to the first reviewer.

I loved the pilot to be honest. It was a bit messy with multiple plotlines that kept me interested. The acting was decent. I didn't notice too much that was distracting.

Madison, Milo, Wade, and Lana were actually why I began watching this. I love the cast sm already. Obviously, It's not oscar worthy at least judging by the first episode but it has potential.

I also love the soundtrack and cinematography. Btw, I don't even like lawyer shows that much so this was a surprise. Other than that don't anything else to say, I'm super excited for what comes next!

To be honest, I don't understand all these crazy reviews of 1 or 10 stars after just 1 episode.

The pilot was in my opinion decent - not as terrible or amazing as so many reviews suggest. I enjoyed it for now and it was interesting enough that I will watch at least a couple more episodes to form a proper opinion. So we'll see how the story develops. For me the pilot was somewhere between a 6 or 7 rating, but I hate all the negativity and bumped it up for now, hoping the series will improve in the next episodes. Depending on how this goes, I will probably amend my rating though.

I tried to watch this mess for 2 episodes but I gave up. Although, I found the 1st episode promising., the 2nd one just clinched in for me.

First of all as a fan of the novel, by Grisham I found it disappointing that they felt the need to change the story I just did not care about any of the characters . John Slattery's acting for his nasty character was over the top and effective least but the other characters just lost my interest and the whole romantic part of the story feels flat.