The Fix

In 2010, LA prosecutor Maya Travis (Robin Tunney) loses a big celebrity case against movie star Sevvy Johnson (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) for the murder of his wife. She retires in the aftermath and eventually settles down with a new life. Eight years later, Sevvy is again the prime suspect in the murder of his girlfriend Jessica Meyer. Maya's old colleague Matthew Collier calls her back to assist in the new investigation. Investigator CJ was her best friend during the original trial. Sevvy rehires his old lawyer Ezra Wolf (Scott Cohen) who is heavily in gambling debt. Collier pushes aside lead prosecutor Loni Kampoor in favor of Travis.

Marcia Clark is one of the creators of the show and it has many parallels to the infamous OJ case. It's a great soapy legal drama but it gets way too overly dramatic at times and pushes beyond believability. Nevertheless, the turns are fun. The show's three leads, Tunney, AAA, and Cohen, provide plenty of juice. Each one create great drama despite going overboard a few times. Its main drawback is its limited run potential. The show would run out of plot once the crime is solved. It's fine for a limited run mini-series. For an ongoing show, it's questionable how long the plot can be dragged out. It got canceled after a ten episode run. I just saw the final episode. The resolution makes no sense. The killer wouldn't act that way and do what happens earlier in the show. The twist is simply bad writing.

Attempting to re-try the OJ Simpson case as fiction is a low blow. But things in real life are turned into fiction all the time. I just don't think they got it right here. After seeing the final episode I thought back to the behaviour of the killer in previous episodes and it just didn't make sense. Same with how the prosecutor figured out who dunnit from reading the journal.

The music was too often over-dramatic. The introduction of minor characters in later episodes was silly. The writing was too often melodramatic. This gets a 5/10 and that's being generous.

The Fix delivers an interesting pilot. Marcia Clarke obliged, there are some parallels with the case of the victims Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman and it is interesting to watch what the pilot is doing with these. However, the plot get more complicated, some suspects are already presented and twists and interesting criminal behaviours were already present and showed that the rest of the story will be something quite different from what we are expecting. The actors were great and quickly presented but with enough to understand their life and motivations. The pilot offers a solid beginning and I hope the rest of the episodes will deliver quality writings, strong full characters and unexpected but realistically turns. I'm curious about what the rest of the show will deliver to the viewers.

I'm torn about this show. I'm almost embarrassed to say that I enjoy watching it. I'm surprised that it's written by Marcia Clark because I have to believe she was it, at least, a decent attorney. A good writer, I can't say as I don't know it they serialized the book. But it is full of improbabilities, as well as malpractice-level legal high jinx. I'm hoping, and praying, that the ending will not be the obvious one, as they hinted about before the show began airing. If the ending shows that he DID murder the women, it will prove to be a complete waste of time. So, my fingers are crossed that they will pull together a good, and surprising, ending. But in the meantime, it is entertaining trash.

This shouldn't be a series, it makes perfect sense as a movie but not a series. Don't think may people will watch after first few episode unless it is one small season with an ending