They were trying way too damn hard to be funny and turn every other line in some sort of "sly" joke. It's kind of hilarious that Melissa Rauch's character is Harry's daughter and she wants to "be like him" as a judge and even messes that up and turns it into a "joke".
Yeah Harry Stone was a prankster and he definitely was unique in his way of hearing cases and rulings BUT and I truly can't stress this enough because it is what made me love the original series to begin with and that's while yes he listened/allowed them to speak their mind, he also tried to help them and just made the whole situation into some sort of learning experience.
While the show was obviously a sitcom, nearly ever episode though had some sort of life lesson you can take with you and/or just make you feel warm inside. And I am talking from pilot and onward, for some sure you made needed to warm up to it, but comparing the original's pilot and the wholesomeness it brought and to the reboot's.......it is in every form a mockery of the original should be ashamed of itself
Side annoyances: The bailiff, while cute and quirky in her own way, they are trying to write her as a Bull/Roz hybrid and that simply doesn't work. The best way I can put how it appears is imagine some hardcore gangster from the darkest parts of the hood switching between that personality to one of a suburban housewife in every few takes......off putting lol.
The clerk just leaves so much to be desired because pretty much the dude has no personality. Tries too hard to be some sort of overworked secretary that has a "hidden" crazy streak like pranking the courthouse by switching the letters around on the directory board to "keep his sanity". But his overall personality is that of a wet noodle lol.
The ADA is pretty much just your run of the mill "tough" female lawyer who knows it all. Not a bash of any kind on women lawyers or her being an ADA but it just seems, again, all generic and frankly considering the heap of mess the show already is......I actually can tolerate the most is her lol.
Now Dan........oh Dan Dan Dan Dan......I get people get older, lives change and so does personalities and the pain of losing loved ones can attribute to it. So while I get they show a more run down Dan Fielding and someone who is closed off, which he wasn't exactly an open book to begin with I get. But the way they wrote his character is, again again, trying to hard to just be funny and not be himself. The only part I actually liked was when near the end when he went back into Harry's chambers and you get that nostalgic feeling plus the prank in the box. But seeing Dan as a Defense Attorney is, was and completely a dumb choice. What made him such a lovable ass was how he tend to mock the defendants and his overall deadpan attitude toward their crimes. Back to the current ADA, I understand they are probably trying to make her like that, but if you are bringing someone like Dan Fielding back then you have to have him as the original ADA Dan.
Yeah Harry Stone was a prankster and he definitely was unique in his way of hearing cases and rulings BUT and I truly can't stress this enough because it is what made me love the original series to begin with and that's while yes he listened/allowed them to speak their mind, he also tried to help them and just made the whole situation into some sort of learning experience.
While the show was obviously a sitcom, nearly ever episode though had some sort of life lesson you can take with you and/or just make you feel warm inside. And I am talking from pilot and onward, for some sure you made needed to warm up to it, but comparing the original's pilot and the wholesomeness it brought and to the reboot's.......it is in every form a mockery of the original should be ashamed of itself
Side annoyances: The bailiff, while cute and quirky in her own way, they are trying to write her as a Bull/Roz hybrid and that simply doesn't work. The best way I can put how it appears is imagine some hardcore gangster from the darkest parts of the hood switching between that personality to one of a suburban housewife in every few takes......off putting lol.
The clerk just leaves so much to be desired because pretty much the dude has no personality. Tries too hard to be some sort of overworked secretary that has a "hidden" crazy streak like pranking the courthouse by switching the letters around on the directory board to "keep his sanity". But his overall personality is that of a wet noodle lol.
The ADA is pretty much just your run of the mill "tough" female lawyer who knows it all. Not a bash of any kind on women lawyers or her being an ADA but it just seems, again, all generic and frankly considering the heap of mess the show already is......I actually can tolerate the most is her lol.
Now Dan........oh Dan Dan Dan Dan......I get people get older, lives change and so does personalities and the pain of losing loved ones can attribute to it. So while I get they show a more run down Dan Fielding and someone who is closed off, which he wasn't exactly an open book to begin with I get. But the way they wrote his character is, again again, trying to hard to just be funny and not be himself. The only part I actually liked was when near the end when he went back into Harry's chambers and you get that nostalgic feeling plus the prank in the box. But seeing Dan as a Defense Attorney is, was and completely a dumb choice. What made him such a lovable ass was how he tend to mock the defendants and his overall deadpan attitude toward their crimes. Back to the current ADA, I understand they are probably trying to make her like that, but if you are bringing someone like Dan Fielding back then you have to have him as the original ADA Dan.