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In the comic book world Superman resided in Metropolis, a bright sunshine city filled with happy, smiling people. There were kids in the park with balloons. Batman however lived in Gotham City, a dark sinister place full of shadows and scared people scurrying to get home safely.
Dramas about lawyers can be that way too. If The Practice and the earlier LA Law were Metropolis then Damages is Gotham City. Very Gotham City.
Damages is dark, gritty, un-nerving, and did I say dark? The show takes place in New York in the present, and a young superstar attorney, Ellen Parsons (played by Rose Byrne) is beginning her law career and was "lucky" enough to become an associate in the very prestigious law firm of "Hewes and Associates". The head of this firm is the venerable and iron-fisted Patty Hewes played by Glenn Close. Also at the firm is an ambitious up-and-comer Tom Shayes played by Tate Donovan. This is the backdrop for many fascinating and dark personalities - all who seem to have a horrible secret, or at the very least a disturbing dark side.
Among the players who come swirling through this murky pond of Gotham soup are Ted Danson, William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Timothy Olyphant, John Goodman, Martin Short, and Lily Tomlin. Not a clinker in the bunch. All caught up in webs of mystery and intrigue.
This is a show that requires that you start at the beginning of a season and see it all in order or it will likely not make sense an episode here and there. But these are great casts and compelling story-lines and are well worth the effort. So I suggest renting season 1 and watching on through. You won't be sorry for the effort.
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