Just watched S0305 - Chicanery, and it was...flat? Ok, maybe not quite, stay with me.
The episode builds momentum at the end of S0304 where Jimmy and Kim plot to (paraphrased) shove Chuck’s PPD in his face. Enter 0305 with this mountain of promise.
Episode begins and we see a contrite Jimmy. Clearly, it’s all part of a bigger plot that will unravel. The ride is somewhat enjoyable - very much so, as the entire season has been super slow.
Skipping ahead to the hearing - witness testimonies. Howard’s cross-examination was...unexciting and lacking in depth? I thought they were still building up to an massive climax. Next is Chuck. First, Kim would have done a better job but Jimmy does alright. This brings me my disappointment...
...There is no structure to the questions? It was a lot of good stabs - but in the dark. The episode had done a great job building momentum, but the cross-examination? It just made a mockery of what had been done. Jimmy and Kim had enough material, enough experiences, enough leverage to completely eviscerate him but they just...didn’t use them.
Playing the mental illness card? Where’s the doctor that recommended to have Chuck committed TWICE?! Where is the fact that Jimmy did not have him committed because you wanted him to feel better, to be happy, even against medical advice? Where are the facts of his episode with the police? Could have laid a nice, long, decent trail as to how Jimmy would do literally ANYTHING, including lie to Rebecca, to keep Chuck happy. Where are the details of what Chuck really thinks of American University Samoa (Or University of America, Samoa)? At what point do you take the charge to expose him as an elitist, sabotaging scumbag? The entire strategy was based on the hope that Chuck would give himself away. It worked out but it was not a solid strategy; it was a passive one, based on the opposing counsel being actively...hateful. But what if he didn’t turn out to be that way? What if he kept his cool? You’re going up against your own sworn enemy and you’re basing your entire strategy on hope?! Your enemy has more knowledge and experience than you both and you go in with the hope that he’d give himself away?! Even mad persons can have moments of lucidity; Chuck could easily have maintained his cool and all they would have achieved was to establish that his mental health (which, btw, was not in contention) was questionable. Even better, having the doctor as a witness would have strongly corroborated this - she recommended commitment twice, people! So much material that could have been used to nail Chuck’s professional coffin permanently shut but here we are, grappling with a tepid - at best - denouement. Best part? These materials are simply creative and do not exactly require knowledge of the codes of law - Jimmy’s exact forte. Just a bit of unconventional thinking - something he’s so good at - with some conventional thinking - something she’s so good at - would have had them come out on top with a worthy climax.
Harvey Spencer and Mike Ross would do excellent! Hell, Louis Litt (who, btw, is fantastic) would do better. Experience was not required, creativity was. And all those shots that were not taken will forever haunt me.
Rant over, thanks for checking in.
Submitted October 26, 2020 at 10:13PM by lateredditho https://ift.tt/34wq0M3
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