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8/10
Golden FINALLY gets something to do in season three!
planktonrules27 March 2018
In the very first episode of season three (which was set at the very end of the second year of law school), you learn that instead of taking a clerkship with a Supreme Court justice, Golden takes a job with a local litigation firm. And, through the credits of season three, you see Michael Tucci (Golden) in the credits. However, in most episodes he doesn't appear at all and in many of the rest he's a minor character. Now, finally, in the final episode of season three they are having an episode about him! Go figure!

Golden's first case for the firm is representing a pharmaceutical company which was obviously defamed by an attention-seeking news reporter. The problem is that although his client is in the right, the owner of the pharmaceutical film (William Schallert) is awful...and an anti-Semite! How could he possibly work with a client who despises him...simply because of his ethnicity??

There is also a very small plot involving a janitor (Scatman Crothers) who is missed after he retires....and misses his old job.

Overall, it's a very good episode...and about time considering what Tucci is such a gifted actor. Well worth your time.
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5/10
The show gets even further away from its origin
LCShackley17 April 2023
Here's the second episode in a row which is more or less a boilerplate legal drama, which could have been on just about any "lawyer show."

The writer apparently thought that Golden needed to have the spotlight again, even though he's no longer at the law school. Why? He was an annoying character brought on in season two to give grief to Hart and the other Law Review staff members. Why should we care about what he's doing after graduation?

The plot is similar to one that would be used to greater effect in "Broadcast News" a few years later: a TV host uses sneaky editing to create a story that harms a pharmaceutical company. Golden represents the company, and its head, William Schallert, a comic-book rendition of an anti-Semite. The point is hammered home again and again, including a "minister, priest and rabbi" joke. Golden overcomes his antipathy to the client and, with the help of some other staffers on the TV show, presents a convincing case.

Our only tie to the law school here is a cute little subplot about Laura's friendship with the library janitor, played by Scatman Crothers. Without this recurring lighthearted bit, this episode would have been "The Golden Hour." And who needs it? Did Michael Tucci's contract require him to get a script with a focus on his character?
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