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How many times has Denzel Washington played a cop, ex-cop or cop-adjacent character with an eye for detail and a deceptively relaxed manner? Often enough that there are two ways to respond to
The Little Things: you can yawn at its star going through the same old routine, or you can appreciate how heâs got it down to a fine art.
Not that Washingtonâs law enforcement professionals are all the same, or that any character heâs played in the past exactly resembles Joe âDekeâ Deacon, the Bakersfield deputy sheriff who is the hero of John Lee Hancockâs
The Little Things: Denzel Washington puts new spin on familiar detective role
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The artificially inflated, effortful melodrama of try-hard prestige pulp
Your Honor can only exist in a world governed by crime clichés. Big bad cities where one criminal mastermind not-so-secretly holds all the power, and every story beat reveals an interconnectedness among literally every character we meet. (The show tries several times to convince us that all this coincidence is just New Orleans being New Orleans, but not well enough.) That this Showtime series remains watchable through its unnecessarily attenuated ten episodes to the extent that it does is thanks to its cast, a who’s-who of prestige TV stalwarts judiciously plucked from better shows.