Comments on: Quick Impressions of HOUSE OF LIES & THE FIRM

By: Poncho

Poncho — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:10:10 +0000

I had almost the same reaction as you did when watching THE FIRM: my body bailed out… as in I fell asleep. It isn’t that I didn’t like it, but it just wasn’t that appealing.

Thanks for the heads up, Elyse!

By: Shell Sherree

Shell Sherree — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:03:53 +0000

I’m not sure if either of these has been picked up here {maybe on cable, which I don’t have} but it’s good to know I’ll be better off for missing them. I’m so disappointed in the sound of House of Lies ~ I’m a big fan of Don Cheadle’s work and I don’t want to taint that by watching him play a scuzzball. Even setting that aside, it wouldn’t be my cup of tea regardless of casting! Thanks for enduring these for the sake of giving us reviews, PCN.

By: EIREGO

EIREGO — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:36:19 +0000

Yeah, I almost missed it myself. They didn’t really promote it all that much. Luckily, I was able to check out a few films I hadn’t caught in theaters and was on the fence about renting.

By: EIREGO

EIREGO — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:32:38 +0000

I am a huge fan of Don Cheadle, but I do agree with you, PCN, the show was just too damn sleazy to watch again. Not a single person I could relate to despite that moment at the end of the episode in which he asks he tries to ask his co-worker if he might be too “something” (no, he never actually says the word, but he appears to be questioning his behavior). Just too little too late for me. I devoured the entire free Showtime weekend offering and if you line up (as did the programming execs) Californication, House of Lies and Shameless back to back, it’s a wonder I didn’t slit my wrists. Pretty bleak stuff and definitely not a line up I would want to watch on my own if I am feeling even slightly depressed. Just messed up people doing really messed up things to themselves.

As for The Firm TV reboot: I have agree. Josh Lucas just can’t hold a scene together in a compelling manner. He’s got that perpetual deer-got-in-the-headlights syndrome. I began wondering if he was just absolutely charmless or did they hand him a new script seconds before they yelled ACTION. The villains all did well and I’m a fan of Callum Keith Rennie (playing Lucas’s private detective brother), but that was some serious posturing and indicating on behalf of Juliette Lewis’s trashy/sarcastic secretary. The woman playing Abby was as pale as her performance.

Won’t be back for either of these shows. Glad we agree.

By: le0pard13

le0pard13 — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:28:46 +0000

D’oh! ;-).

By: EIREGO

EIREGO — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:11:05 +0000

Le0pard13, this last weekend was a free Showtime weekend.

By: le0pard13

le0pard13 — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:55:07 +0000

I love Cheadle’s work, but what I saw in the promos didn’t enamor me (and I don’t have Showtime). Even if I did, there’s other stuff coming out I’m more interested in (JUSTIFIED’s third season, for one). THE FIRM was opposite a brand new THE GOOD WIFE so that lost out, big time. Thanks for the heads up, Elyse.

By: Jen Forbus

Jen Forbus — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:17:03 +0000

Hey! I actually watched TV last night. I watched THE FIRM and had the opposite reaction. I preferred Josh Lucas to Tom Cruise. I’ve always felt Cruise was overly dramatic and he came off as fake. I think Lucas did a nice job of handling all the internal conflict his character was dealing with.

I love the brother Ray and his girlfriend. Abby was the character I wasn’t all that thrilled with. The nasty, bitchy law firm owner did a nice job with that role. I’ll tune in again…