EPISODE
Bad Judge - Season 1
In this series, Kate Walsh plays Judge Rebecca Wright, a tough judge judge with an unusual courtroom manner and reckless personal life. After a case of which the parent of a boy is put in jail, Rebecca decides to become the boy's counsel.
8 August 1986, New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA
4 February 1977, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
5 February 1967, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
12 April 1973, Palatine, Illinois, USA
24 April 1958, New York City, New York, USA
24 April 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 June 1968, Chicago, Illinois, USA
October 02, 2014
Painful. That's all I've got for the two episodes I've seen of NBC's Bad Judge.October 02, 2014
Bad Judge is just all out of order.October 01, 2014
Walsh throws herself into the part but Bad Judge so far is falling apart around her. It's not terrible, and maybe not even a misdemeanor offense. But it's still guilty of not being all that good.October 01, 2014
She's fun and funky, nonjudgmentally, the way guys get to be in films by, say, Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, who executive-produce this series.October 02, 2014
Until the show figures out how to make sitcom slapstick and inner-beauty melodrama work, it's kind of a mess. As sitcoms go, Bad Judge adds up more to "Huh?" than "Ha!"September 29, 2014
The judge should throw the book at the show's writers.October 01, 2014
Unfortunately, neither Rebecca the character nor Walsh the actress is funny enough to fill the half hour with laughs, or even smiles.October 02, 2014
I like the jokes that are there already, so let's hope this first season gives us more of them and finds a way to make them matter.October 02, 2014
This seems like a show exceedingly unlikely to succeed, but it won't be because Walsh isn't funny. It will be because even good shows often suffer from too much tinkering, and not-so-good shows can suffer even more.