If you’re looking for another 22 minutes of watching a woman kick ass in her professional life but failing miserably in her personal life, welcome to Bad Judge, debuting Thursday on NBC. The series -- not to be confused with last season’s failed TV attempt at Bad Teacher -- stars Kate Walsh (Private Practice, Fargo) as the Honorable Rebecca Wright - a hangover-nursing, sex-crazed judge who parks in handicapped spots, wears sparkly underwear and takes pregnancy tests before climbing up on that stand to judge everyone else.
By the end of the pilot, we’re still unsure if we’re supposed to judge her.
While it’s nice to see a female in a strong leading role -- especially a female doing comedy -- the character executive producers Anne Heche (yep, that Anne Heche!), Adam McKay and Will Ferrell (yep, them too!) and their collaborators have given us here is a hard sell. Not only would Wright be unable to flourish and function in the real world given her antics in the pilot, but her relationships with her co-workers are unrealistic and barely break the surface. We could love her for her quirks if there weren’t so many of them. Going forward, that’s probably something the writers will figure out. After all, pilots tend to be all kinds of extreme in order to get sold, and then they work on finding their stride and balancing out the characters. This rings true especially in comedies.
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