YOUR HONOR (2020-2021)
Label: CBS
Region Code: A
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 569 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p GD Widescreen
Directors: Clark Johnson, Edward Berger, Eva Sorhaug, Bryan Cranston
Cast: Bryan Cranston, Hunter Doohan, Hope Davis, Michael Stuhlbarg, Tony Curran
Bryan Cranston stars as a New Orleans judge who is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family. As a storm of vengeance, lies and deceit threatens to engulf the entire city, Michael Desiato faces a series of increasingly impossible choices and discovers just how far an honest man will go to save his son's life. From the producers of The Good Wife and The Night Of.
This 10-episode Showtime thriller-series stars Bryan Cranston, who will always be the dad from Malcolm in the Middle to me as I still have not watched Breaking Bad. He plays a respected, and straight-shooting New Orleans judge whose teenage son, Adam (Hunter Doohan), is involved in a hit-and-run, killing another young man. When the kid tells his father what happened he tells him they have to go to the cops, as you'd expect a judge-dsd would, but when the judge finds out that the victim was the son of New Orleans notoriously violent crime-boss Jimmy Baxter( Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me By Your Name) he changes his mind. As a father he does everything in his power to keep it under wraps, beginning by reporting the car stolen, which sets in motion a series of increasingly terrible events, including a young innocent black man being charged with the crime. The events of this mini-series just kept getting more and more fucked up as it went along, culminating with a satisfyingly finish that left me gob smacked. I have always told my kids that if, God forbid, you are ever in an accident and it was your fault that you need to stay on the scene, aid anyone who is injured, and deal with the consequences; and the events depicted in this film are the imagined reasons why - things just have a way of spiraling out of control. This comes highly recommended, if you're looing for a engrossing mini-series to binge-watch that you won't regret starting this one, this is tragedy-porn at it's most entertaining!
I will say it it's a little upsetting that this was released on DVD-only three years back, but it was great to revisit this engrossing season in HD, its a nice uptick in quality over the DVD 'natch, especially as I'm about to start binging the second season with my wife, which is currently streaming.
Special Features:
- Deleted Scenes (6 min)
