From Amazon Prime:
In the final season, after Patty takes a job at a prestigious white-shoe law firm in San Francisco, Billy returns to his Big Law roots. Together, they try to take down one of America’s most insidious Goliaths: the opioid industry.
From Amazon Prime you can stream the 8 episodes of this last available season. Each episode lasts about 50 minutes.
As I have mentioned before, you do best watching this series beginning with season 1, remembering that season 2 offers some ugly scenes. Many characters have remained throughout the four seasons, notably Billy’s sidekicks as well as some old enemies. Surprisingly Donald Cooperman (played by William Hurt) plays a positive role in resolving the lawsuit. Wonderful performances are provided by:
- Bruce Dern plays the good brother Frank Zax.
- J.K. Simmons plays the evil brother George Zax.
- Jena Malone plays the lawyer Samantha Margolis who is suffering from multiple sclerosis.
Part of the fun, as usual, is watching all the “Lawyer Trickery Bullshit” (which is the title of episode 7) as Billy and friends battle the opioid industry.
DO NOT MISS!
From IMDB:
One-off drama based on the critically acclaimed memoirs of British journalist Sathnam Sanghera. A touching, humorous and emotional rites-of-passage story.
From Acorn TV:
Based on a critically acclaimed memoir, this BBC drama is the touching and humorous story of Sathnam (Sacha Dhawan, Iron Fist), a second-generation Indian raised in Britain, who struggles to reconcile his traditional upbringing with his multicultural modern life. “Soul-searching and impeccably acted” (The Telegraph), it also stars Joanna Vanderham (The Paradise) and Deepti Naval (Lion).
From Acorn TV you can stream this 87 minute complete film.
Without giving anything away, the underlying motivation for the story is that Sathnam wants to marry a white girl outside his Punjabi culture and is afraid to tell his mother. Years ago he left his family to work in the white world of London journalism. When he returns to his family (in another part of London) he makes many discoveries about his family of which he was blithely unaware starting with the fact that his father is schizophrenic.
Call this film a “rare find” or small “gem of a film”. In any case,
DO NOT MISS!
Films Tony is comfortable recommending.
