Desiato’s instinct is to lawyer up and come clean, until he learns that the victim was the son of a local mob boss, Jimmy Baxter (Michael Stuhlbarg), who is not about to wait for the courts to avenge his child.Īs ABC likes to ask in its own ethical-dilemma show, “ What Would You Do?” Desiato decides to save his son’s life by pulling strings and faking an alibi.
So here it is: Michael Desiato (Cranston), a straight-arrow judge, finds his devotion to the law tested when his teenage son, Adam (Hunter Doohan), kills another young man in a hit-and-run accident. If you’ve heard anything about this 10-episode mini-series besides who stars in it, you’ve heard its premise, which is its biggest hook and its biggest problem: It’s nothing but premise. It plops him in very much the same dramatic position, and as one more cable-drama journey into an ethical gray zone, it covers no new ground. “Your Honor,” the grim ethical-dilemma drama beginning Sunday on Showtime, moves Cranston from New Mexico to New Orleans, from a lab bench to a judge’s bench - and yet it doesn’t go far at all. In “Breaking Bad,” Bryan Cranston unforgettably captured the moral arc of Walter White, the chemistry teacher transmuted into a drug lord, a man driven to crime out of fear for his family’s well-being who discovers that his former career trained him surprisingly well for his new one.
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