Raising The Bar TV Show

All about a crime scene, action, rising heart beats, drops of perspiration and a plea from mother, this was all “Tuesday’s Dead”. The episode got aired just a few days back and it has left an impression of likingness. The scene I liked the most from this episode is Sam and his mother’s emotional moments. The episode begins in a hospital, where, Sam, Annie, Ray and Gene have reached to solve a hostage situation. A gunman has taken a doctor hostage and he wants him to reverse a complicated surgery on his brother. Now the team has to diffuse highly explosive face-off in the hospital. Every scene is filled with stressful and tense moments. The hospital is quieter than usual.

To add to Sam’s stress, he receives a phone call. This is from his mother from 2006. She begs him to wake up. This implies that Sam is in coma and everything happening is just an imagination. But contrary to this, despite being a little tensed over the phone call, he still concentrates upon handling the highly risky situation. Eventually, they manage to get control over the situation. There was a lot of action in this episode, but a few emotional moments about Sam’s mother surpassed them all. That scene really dominated the entire episode.

I would definitely like to watch this episode once again, if given a chance. This is not the only episode which concentrates upon Sam’s mother. The episode four too has shown Sam’s mother, but in her young age. She emerges as victim of assault by a local gangster. Sam helps her in getting out of situation. But this episode is a bit extra emotion filled in comparison to that. In further episodes, I hope we will explore more about Sam’s mother. Keep anticipating.

“Raising the Bars” is the new series on TNT, by the Emmy winning producer Steven Bochco. The legal drama series premiered on September 1, 2008. The storyline is entirely based on courtroom battles between district attorney and public defender. It also follows the lives of young competing lawyers. It also throws light on relationships among the people on different sides of the same profession. The primary characters are a group of young lawyers, including public prosecutors and defenders, who oppose each other professionally throughout the day. But at night they hang out together like a normal group of friends.

They argue and negotiate with each other about the deteriorating criminal justice system. Nonetheless, they are dedicated players of field of law and can do everything to get justice for their clients. The show also exposes how illicit relationships are used to attain successful careers and other malpractices used to transform truth into lie to add another star on one’s belt. The main character can be said as Jerry Kellerman, who is keen to get justice for helpless, even if for this he has to confront the ruthless Judge Trudy. Characters around him play the supportive roles, like his girl friend, also an attorney Michelle, her boss Nick Balco, a cunning boss of attorneys. Other than these, there is Jerry’s boss Rosalind and the Judge Kessler having sexual relationship with the law and the Judge Kessler having sexual relationship with the law clerk Charlie. The story is so well woven that characters seem bonded with each other. Thus viewers can have an eye on, in the court and out of the court proceedings. The show has yet seen its first season consisting of ten episodes, which ended on November 3, 2008. The second season carrying fifteen episodes has been announced on September 16, 2008. It will arrive in 2009.