There were potential witnesses to the crime in the first place, a loose bloody garment, and Adam’s inhaler that, at the end of the episode, is discovered by one of Baxter’s henchmen. But that doesn’t tie up all the loose ends – not by a long way. So, he crosses that first line by destroying all the evidence and dumping the remainder over a bridge in the middle of the night. That means that Adam isn’t just facing legal reprisal, but gangland justice, and that isn’t something that Michael is willing to risk. That’s the big twist of “Part One” – Rocco’s father is Jimmy Baxter (Michael Stuhlbarg), the head of the local crime family. And the help Michael provided was an urging to be responsible and take ownership of what had happened. He was doing what all young people do when they know they’ve messed up – begging for help from his parents. Yes, of course, Adam knows that dad is exceedingly well-connected in the justice system and will probably take the edge off any possible consequences, if not swerve them altogether, but I never got the sense that Adam was trying to get himself off the hook. Yes, he flees, but he turns to his stand-up father for help, and his father pushes him to turn himself in. His bad decision isn’t even that bad of a decision, really – you can at least understand it. He tries to help even at the expense of his own wellbeing, and it’s only after dragging himself back to his inhaler that he can concentrate for long enough to make a bad decision. He’s scared and a bit hapless but fundamentally pretty good. The sequence that follows, of Adam trying to perform mouth-to-mouth when he doesn’t even have enough oxygen for himself, is a bit needlessly gory and desperate, like the show is trying slightly too hard to make a rather obvious point about how traumatic running someone down and killing them is. We’re to understand that these are three figures from different backgrounds and in different predicaments whose lives become entangled when Adam, experiencing a bad asthma attack and reaching for his inhaler, runs Rocco over. There are lots of little details and questions in Your Honor – what happened to Adam’s mother? Who are Rocco’s parents? – that aren’t immediately addressed. Rocco speeds around on a vintage motorcycle given to him as a gift by his wealthy parents. Adam lays a picture of his late mother at a convenience store and is chased off by some angry locals, who aren’t best pleased to see him. Michael jogs through the neighborhood – we later learn he’s training for a marathon – and pays a brief visit to a property that we’ll see payoff in court, as he exposes a beat cop’s lies under oath. For a while, we’re given snippets of each of their lives and left to wonder how they intersect, and what the significance of certain details are. The smartest thing about Your Honor episode 1 is that it’s tight-lipped about Michael and Adam’s relationship, and the significance of Rocco, the guy Adam runs over, until much later on. He has a son (though, thankfully for any Breaking Bad fans, no wife.) In “Part One”, the very good premiere, he makes a decision that crosses both legal and moral lines and will inevitably result in more lines having to be similarly bypassed along a slippery slope of compromise, desperation, and probably tragedy. He’s a well-intentioned and upstanding citizen forced into drastic circumstances beyond his control. I mention that since his character in Showtime’s new series Your Honor is similar – okay, very similar – in some key respects. This recap of Your Honor season 1, episode 1, “Part One”, contains spoilers.įor a lot of people, Bryan Cranston is virtually indistinguishable from Walter White, the character he played in Breaking Bad who, at least by the end, was virtually indistinguishable from his drug kingpin alter ego, Heisenberg. That could divide the family.“Part One” forces Bryan Cranston into another morally-compromised position in Showtime’s enticing new crime drama, Your Honor. Gina and Carlo are on one side, pressuring Jimmy to take action. Gina, always in her son's ear, has him by the strings, controlling him like a puppet. All the moves both families made served to maintain temporary peace. We haven't seen the last showdown between Big Mo and The Baxters. Left alone with her thoughts, she must have developed a hatred for her family. She went through a pregnancy alone and grieving. : Was it? I know violence is a part of this family.To have him ripped from her hand like that? Even when she and Jimmy talked, you could detect a little anger at her mother.įia: Was it? I know violence is a part of this family. It is also fair to assume that she is furious. It felt unfair to her that Adam died because of her family.
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