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Presumed Innocent
Season 1 Premiere: Jun 11, 2024
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6.2
All Seasons
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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58% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
39% Mixed
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3% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
64
58% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
39% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Strong performances and a compelling plot makes Presumed Innocent addictive television.
Should be the television talk of the summer, which is fitting considering Turow’s novel has long been an ideal beach read.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 43 User Ratings
6.2
63% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
21% Mixed
9 Ratings
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16% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 43 User Ratings
6.2
63% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
21% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
16% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
Tight drama, very atmospheric, sharp script, interesting direction. The casting is spot on and the acting is first class.. Ruth Negga and Jake Gyllenhaal stand out but the casting of Della Guardia played by O-T **** is excellent! Three shows in and I still have no idea who I truest or believe
Three dimensional, complex, difficult characters - good show!
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Kelley shows here that a series can be talky yet still tense, and often fascinating, with the right cast.
"Presumed Innocent" has a lot going for it, including sensational performances by Peter Sarsgaard, Bill Camp and Gabby Beans. But we've been burned by Mr. Kelley before. .... Ms. Negga is largely wasted, her moody scenes involving a revenge fling with a hunky bartender (Sarunas J. Jackson) ratcheting the considerable tension down; Barbara seems washed out by her husband's behavior. But Mya is refreshingly no-nonsense.
Presumed Innocent does have its moments, but in terms of making a case for committing to sit through eight chapters, Kelley, Gyllenhaal and company haven’t exactly put together an open-and-shut case.
The TV remake of “Presumed Innocent” (officially an update of Scott Turow’s 1987 novel) makes some desperate gambits to fill out its episodes, and the emptiness underneath its dedicated performances proves just as nagging as the monotonous repetition of the same two queries, hour after hour, all the way through the finale (which was not screened for critics).
Gyllenhaal’s talents are not suited to this suite of emotions and behaviors, which read mostly as “angry” and “desperate.” .... The script does nobody here any favors, including Ruth Negga as Rusty’s wife, Bill Camp as his boss and protector, and Peter Sarsgaard as an office rival who is all too eager to nail him. Sarsgaard is usually a terrific actor, but even he can’t make any of this work.
I read the book and loved the Harrison Ford movie, and this is starting off as a great reboot. My hope is that spreading it out over a mini-series will lend it some depth and breadth. I've seen that happen more recently and Apple is killing it. I like this idea of a mini-series rather than just a movie. Movie adaptations, even the best of them, often fall short. My only slight beef is that I just can't imagine anyone cheating on Ruth Nega.
Dark Matter is another example of a well-done adaptation of a book. I wanna say Interview with a Vampire as well, now that they got some of their over the top **** out of the way in season 1. Season 2 of that is adding some depth even though they have radically changed the plot/characters from the actual novel. I hope they continue with Lestat.
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Like other David E. Kelley shows, the writing is pedestrian, never rising to making us really care about any of it.
Who quits in the middle of the 5th episode of a murder mystery with actors like Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard? I do. Why? Because I just don't care "whodunnit" enough to invest one more minute of my life to finding out.
Kelley ought to hire some writers above the "mediocre" line; otherwise, he's just wasting very talented actors who have shown what they can do with compelling material. This could have been that. It isn't.
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A bloody waste of time, I don’t even think I’m watching a crime tv series, instead, it’s more like a family ethics drama, half of the episode is talking about “She’s a good person”& “you cheated, I don’t want you to take this case”& “My father cheated, I cheated, I feel perplexed.”The show is also filled with meaningless political struggle that has almost no connection with the plot. I couldn’t even imagine how these people marked 80 or more, ridiculous.
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Production Company:
- Apple Studios
- Bad Robot
- David E. Kelley Productions
- Old Curiosity Shop
- Warner Bros. Television
Initial Release Date: Jun 11, 2024
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA