Series · CBS · 1961
Pass it on
The Defenders
73Worth an evening.
Worth an evening. Two lawyers, a family, and a case that does not insult the question.
The review
A father and his son are partners in a New York law firm. The week is a case: not a puzzle with a surprise witness, a question a city is actually having. They prepare. They disagree. They go home and the disagreement comes with them, which is how you can tell the household is real. It was never the number-one show. It was one of the few shows of the decade a serious person did not have to apologize for watching.
I would choose it over the more famous courtroom hour when the house can stand a conversation that does not snap shut. Older teenagers are ready for it. Ask, at the end, whether the law and the right thing were the same in this episode, and do not rush the answer if the show did not. That patience is the inheritance. A culture that prefers the confession on the stand will find this slow. Slow is the compliment.
Journal
Keep The Defenders in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 73. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
When Calls the Heart
83 instead of 73
When Calls the Heart is still a drama show, and it scores 83 instead of 73. What you gain is piety: Grace is said, and a conscience is allowed to interrupt a plan.
The eight
- 8Industry
Preparation is the show. They read, they argue, they do not win by a stunt.
- 7Household
Father and son are a household of work, and the work is how they love each other.
- 5Piety
Conscience is the argument in the room, including when the law and the mercy diverge.
- 7Courage
They take clients who will cost them, and they stay through the unpopular hour.
- 9Republic
The debt is the definition of the show: a city, a court, a person the court might crush.
- 7Temperance
No glamour. The restraint is the willingness to stay inside a hard question.
- 8Truth
The case is allowed to be ambiguous. The show does not always rescue you with a villain.
- 7Stewardship
A house inherits a father and a son who take the public question home.
Where to watch
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