He dies in the street and Adam, completely spooked, flees the scene.
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Adam tries to help this teenager, essentially a peer, but the kid’s injuries are severe.
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He struggles to reach his inhaler from his position in the driver’s seat and suddenly strikes a young man on a motorcycle. ( Your Honor is cryptic about the circumstances of her death.) Rattled by a bunch of guys who follow him to his car, Adam speeds away, then begins to have an asthma attack. On the morning of October 9, Adam actually is thinking about his late mom, but instead of going to her grave, he lays flowers outside of a corner store where, presumably, Robin, a photographer, became the victim of some type of violence.
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The series is not without its compelling moments, though, particularly in the first episode, when Adam gets himself into the trouble that sets up everything that comes next. as Charlie Figaro, a mayoral candidate and close friend of Michael’s who is as boisterous as Clay Davis, minus the “ shiiiiiiits.” (There are ten total.) You can tell it’s kind of going for The Wire and, at least initially, not quite getting there despite the extremely welcome presence of Wire alum Isiah Whitlock, Jr. That tower construction is what drives the series, which is more interested in plot machinations than digging into the significance of the systemic issues it raises, at least in the first four episodes made available to critics. Your Honor places one deception attempt on top of another until it creates a cover-up Jenga tower that seems destined to fall. Based on the Israeli series Kvodo and set in New Orleans, where we are reminded often that the whole system is corrupt™, this show has mob bosses, cops on the take, shady politicians, and, in Cranston, a judge who metes out justice for a living yet is willing to do whatever it takes to keep his son out of trouble.
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Unfortunately, much of the material they are working with in Your Honor - developed by Peter Moffat, the British playwright and screenwriter who wrote Criminal Justice, the series that inspired The Night Of - contains so many familiar crime TV elements that it bends toward the tropey. He is, unsurprisingly, superb here, as is the rest of the exceptional cast. He’s basically the Obi-Wan Kenobi of bullshit - Michael can calmly improv his way through a series of untruths with a confidence that’s almost Zen-like - and that makes this a perfect role for Cranston, who famously skated from upstanding citizen to amoral criminal in Breaking Bad. In Your Honor, this is what Michael does repeatedly: schools his son in the ways of deceit by treating it as something normal and strategic. “You won’t have to construct the lie because you lived it.”
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“Months from now, if you’re ever asked where you were, what you were doing, on October 9, you’ll have the muscle memory of what you did,” Michael explains. But Adam needs to believe he was there on the actual anniversary so he can credibly use it as an alibi. The two are visiting the grave of Robin, Michael’s late wife and Adam’s mother, the day after the anniversary of her death. This is the advice that Judge Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston) gives to his son Adam (Hunter Doohan) in the second episode of Your Honor, the Showtime limited series that debuts tonight.