Lack of chemistry with an ostensible love interest aside, Heigl is reasonably well cast on a show that wants to careen between serious drama and ostensible screwball banter that never comes together properly. I guess the writers don’t want to leave any, um, doubt about these expositional details. In fact, in three episodes, Tiffany tells us she went to University of Iowa law school, that she has a boyfriend in Iowa, that not everybody in Iowa grew up on a farm and that people in Iowa don’t yell. Like I also know that Isaiah Roth (Gould) is a famously inspirational defender of the underdog, because everywhere he goes people tell him that he’s a famously inspirational defender of the underdog, and that second-year associate Tiffany (Walker) is from Iowa because all three episodes I’ve seen include mention of her Iowa past. I know this because she replies, “I fight because most people won’t!” Sadie fights because she fears most people won’t. I know this because accused murderer (and successful pediatric surgeon) Billy Brennan (Pasquale) tells her, “You fight like most people breathe. Heigl, still somehow in a better suited vehicle than her NBC dud State of Affairs, plays Sadie, a determined lawyer who fights like most people breathe.
Position on CBS is really special,” Cox told reporters.”]ĭoubt focuses on a boutique firm of defense attorneys skilled at battling on behalf of their clients, but I mostly wanted to enlist their services to save Katherine Heigl, Dulé Hill, Elliott Gould, Laverne Cox, Steven Pasquale and Dreama Walker. Through the three episodes sent to critics, Doubt gives few justifications for sticking with it, other than an undeniably super cast of actors I’d be eager to watch weekly on a much better show.
Enter CBS’ Doubt, a soapy legal procedural that feels like a subpar version of The Good Wife by way of a subpar version of a Shonda Rhimes-free ABC Shonda Rhimes show (though still not quite as subpar as Conviction and Notorious, ABC’s own confused efforts to do Shonda without Shonda).
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