I think David E. Kelly was an excellent writer/showrunner for old-style TV series (Picket Fences, Boston Legal), but for streaming we expect a little more, and he doesn't quite have the sensibility for it.
I think David E. Kelly was an excellent writer/showrunner for old-style TV series (Picket Fences, Boston Legal), but for streaming we expect a little more, and he doesn't quite have the sensibility for it.
Big Little Lies season 1 wasn't that long ago, though an argument certainly could/should be made that it was Jean-Marc Vallée's direction that elevated the usual Kelley scripts. But ever since BLL, Kelley's been practically as hot as he was in the 90s. The demand for him is high.
I was thinking, for example, of the difference between the first few seasons of Bosch, which gave us complex characters in a story told with care, and Kelly's Lincoln Lawyer, based on source material from the same novelist, but told in a much more cartoonish way.
I think David E. Kelly was an excellent writer/showrunner for old-style TV series (Picket Fences, Boston Legal), but for streaming we expect a little more, and he doesn't quite have the sensibility for it.
Big Little Lies season 1 wasn't that long ago, though an argument certainly could/should be made that it was Jean-Marc Vallée's direction that elevated the usual Kelley scripts. But ever since BLL, Kelley's been practically as hot as he was in the 90s. The demand for him is high.
I was thinking, for example, of the difference between the first few seasons of Bosch, which gave us complex characters in a story told with care, and Kelly's Lincoln Lawyer, based on source material from the same novelist, but told in a much more cartoonish way.
Sure, I don't love Lincoln Lawyer (though I also think the lead is miscast). But the audience as a whole is still very clearly into DEK's thing.