All Rise

We watch the first two seasons and enjoyed them so we were looking forward to season three. The first couple of episodes I chalked it up to them just needing to get their sea legs back but I it seems that the issue is more fundamental than that.. There is flaw in the show that wasn't there before. The characters are so wildly over acting their parts that, in some cases, the characters are not the same. It is like the actors were told to kick it up a few notches. I'm sorry but that does not work for me. You don't have to beat me over the head.

Wow. I used to love this show and the Lola character I thought was fabulous. Smart, beautiful, ethical, and honorable so i thought. They bring in this overall muscular actor to play her ex-boyfriend and suddenly, she is supposed to be the opposite of all those things. Hollywood is a joke! So noone on TV can be all those things and still be entertaining, I guess. Just when i thought i was watching something more than a soap opera where everyone sleeps together and remains friends, they do this to the one character I admired. I only liked a few shows on television, the FBIs, Bluebloods and All Rise but i guess they are going to trash it because i guess they don't have enough creative imagination to incorporate excitement without tainting it like they are starting to do with All Rise. Lazy writing again so you can go ahead and cancel it again, I'm done!!

I think I'm going to like this. The writing is sharp. The characters are approachable. Simone Missick has a serenity that balances the rapid fire dialogue. It's going to have to self correct on edging toward being sappy but, otherwise, I think this has potential. I give this pilot a 7 (good) out of 10. {Legal Drama}

A nice premiere episode. Two court cases are presented to a new judge who gets appointed after an older judge retires after a "meltdown" of the bailiff in his courtroom. (Involving a non-fatal shooting.) She is there to witness it. Seems like the intent is to present a semi-dramatic version of "Night Court" with several likeable" supporting actors. She has also made an adversary of a well-respected female detective.

I loved, loved, loved the first two seasons of All Rise. Sigh! I was truly disappointed when it was canceled then elated when the series was picked up by OWN. Some of the episodes are now poorly written with, relationship drama overload, unrealistic exchanges between characters, predictability, outright silliness, some straight-up stupidness, and some stories are overly dramatized (specifically episode 10). I was preoccupied in August when the season finale, episode 10, aired, and forgot about it until now, October 6th. I would have never forgotten to watch an episode during seasons one and two, which says a lot about season three. Episode 10 is so poorly written that I was talking out loud to my monitor, expressing how stupid certain scenes were, and how predictable others were. I found myself clicking the skip forward button several times to get past the foolishness. Smh! During the Summer, I could not bring myself to watch episode 8. The storyline was so silly, and not in a humorous way. Auntie O, what have you done to this once excellent series!!!