James Delingpole James Delingpole

Intelligence-insulting schlock: Sky Atlantic’s Your Honor reviewed

Another high-concept drama where contrivance and coincidence trump all else

Lorraine Toussaint as Sarah LeBlanc and Bryan Cranston as Michael Desiato. Credit: © 2019 Showtime Networks Inc. All rights reserved. 
issue 17 April 2021

I’m really not enjoying Your Honor, the latest vehicle for Bryan Cranston to play a good man driven to the dark side by extraordinary and compelling circumstances designed to make the viewer go: ‘There but for the grace of God go I…’

The problem with the compelling circumstances in this case is that they feel so desperately contrived.

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