YOUR HONOR
Type: drama, thriller
Director: Peter Moffat. With Bryan Cranston, Hope Davis, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Benjamin Flores Jr., Michael Stuhlbarg, Keith Machekanyanga, Lilli Kay, Jimi Stanton. On Paramount+
Bryan Cranston (Michael Desiato) and Amy Landecker (Detective Nancy Costello) in the second season of “Your Honor” (photo Skip Bolen/SHOWTIME).
A father’s pain, redemption, new criminal balances against the backdrop of the city of New Orleans. The ingredients of the second season of Your Honour they mix in a narrative tension that shifts the light on the intimate relationships of the characters.
The first season of the series (on Sky) seemed to have come full circle: the death of Adam Desiato – the boy who had run over and killed the son of the Baxter crime family and whom his father, a respected judge, had tried to protect by going so far as to break the law several times – seemed to have put the point to the narrative.
With the second season (on Paramount +), however, new narrative lines are articulated; now Judge Desiato (Bryan Cranston) is in prison weakened by pain, but finds in a district attorney the opportunity to go out and start a new life alongside his historic friend Charlie Figaro, now mayor of the city and hunted by the Baxters.
If some plots appear forced, what shines in Your Honour it is the strength of the cast: the one between Desiato (monumental Cranston) and the boss of the Baxters (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a game of mirrors of rare emotional intensity, while the female figures emerge episode after episode, including Fia Baxter, the daughter and ex-girlfriend of the unfortunate Adam.
For those who love crimes that are based on introspection and sink into the pain and loneliness of the protagonists.
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