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Raising the Bar
Season 1
TV-PG
22%
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Former law-school classmates reunite in court when they take on rival clients.
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Cast of Season 1
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Jerry Kellerman
Gloria Reuben
Rosalind Whitman
Currie Graham
Nick Balco
Melissa Sagemiller
Michelle Earnhardt
J. August Richards
Marcus McGrath
Jonathan Scarfe
Charlie Sagansky
Teddy Sears
Richard Patrick Woolsley
Natalia Cigliuti
Roberta 'Bobbi' Gilardi
Jane Kaczmarek
Judge Trudy Kessler
Steven Bochco
Executive Producer
David Feige
Supervising Producer
Raising the Bar • Season 1 Ratings & Reviews
Observer
Hillary Frey
Raising the Bar, however, attempts to drag us back to the era of that other Bochco drama, L.A. Law, where men were men, women wore shoulder pads and sex stank up everything.
Seattle Times
Dave Shiflett
The show has addiction potential, fueled by intertwining romantic story lines.
L.A. Weekly
Robert Abele
Did the world need another law show? Arguably not. But if they're going to keep entering our homes like those pesky jury duty summonses, I'll take an agreeably lively genre workout from a tested veteran like Bochco over most.
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
[W]hile Bochco's past work has offered up compelling characters, lively ethical dilemmas, and challenges to institutional mythologies, the new show looks to be mainly soapy.
The Hollywood Reporter
Barry Garron
Too often, though, plots are contrived and coincidental... and lack the wonderful surprises that are trademarks of a Bochco production.
Newark Star-Ledger
Alan Sepinwall
It's not just familiar, but lazy.
New York Post
Linda Stasi
[T]he whole thing comes across about as realistic as a ride at Universal theme park.
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
For the first time in his career, Bochco seems to be going through the motions. All the characters appear to have emerged from the stockroom.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Ellen Gray
Bochco has said he wasn't a fan of the hair at first, and I can see why. But it's not as big a problem as the producer's need to make something predictable and audience-pleasing.
Washington Post
Tom Shales
Seriously, it is hard to take the show very seriously. It does traffic in issues and hot topics -- and protests, in its way, the general corruption of the legal system -- but not in particularly fresh or original terms.
Wall Street Journal
Nancy DeWolf Smith
Despite its updated gloss and cast, in fact, "Raising the Bar" doesn't really break a mold.
New York Daily News
David Hinckley
"Raising the Bar" is entertaining enough as straightforward drama. It moves at the typically fast Bochco pace, with overlapping dramas that sometimes come together in unexpected ways.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rob Owen
"Raising the Bar" is as pedestrian as cable dramas come.
Austin Chronicle
Belinda Acosta
Raising the Bar blends the soapiness of Grey's Anatomy with the earnest (though limited) discussion of law and human rights sometimes found in Law & Order.
Newsday
Verne Gay
Good show with fine cast, but it all still feels a little too familiar and old-fashioned.
USA Today
Robert Bianco
The approach may be new, but everything else about Bar feels ancient and worn out.
Variety
Brian Lowry
[T]here's no escaping a nagging sense that the series springs from a well-worn playbook - in keeping with TNT's reasonably successful strategy to deliver retro dramas that wouldn't have looked out of place in 1985.
New York Times
Ginia Bellafante
Part of what makes "Raising the Bar" so loopy is its commitment to this peculiar politics of personal responsibility and to a sappy liberalism.
New York Magazine/Vulture
John Leonard
Passion and purpose are among the missing.
San Francisco Chronicle
Tim Goodman
In combination with the characters, this makes "Raising the Bar" about an average law series. That's pretty good for TNT, but less than expected from Bochco - fair or not.
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