The Fix

Marsha Clark and her writing partners Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain really took a spin on a story we know so well. They are keeping us guessing. Fantastic cast, great writing, surprising payoffs! Can't watch to see if Savy is guilty as he looks or if he's telling the truth. Will have to keep watching to find out!

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.

Can't get past the bad acting, horrible writing, and especially the lead actresse's constant fishlip pose with her mouth!

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.

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