"Goliath" is the newest show by super-producer/writer David E. Kelly.
It stars Billy Bob Thornton and features some great supporting actors like Maria Bello (ex-wife/rival attny), Olivia Thirlby (rival attny), Sarah Wynter (client), Tania Raymonde (hooker/paralegal), and Molly Parker (attny in rival firm.) William Hurt plays a demonic figure (ala "The Natural") who sits in the dark and uses a clicker to show his anger or disdain for people (you'll just have to see it.)
Kelly tells a personal story of how he promised his kids he wouldn't write any more lawyer shows. But this isn't like anything you've seen from this prolific writer. Bad words, drinking, drug use, violence...it follows the trend of the edgier shows that have been coming out. It's an Amazon Prime original so they can get away with challenging the audience.
And it does.
Taking place in Santa Monica with locations at the famous dive bar Chez Jay, "Goliath" features an attorney on the edge of slipping away from the legal world until he's approached with a redemption-type case. The storyline of redemption borrows heavily from "The Verdict" the Lumet/Newman/Mamet courtroom masterpiece that for me never gets old.