Not since the practice has a law show caught my attention like this one. Other then for the people which was also canceled.
24 Reviews
I miss this show.
Mamasgirl8227 November 2019
Why Why why is there no more serials any more?
dickinsonliane19 October 2018
Great show
dominoconsultant-971976 June 2018
Took a few episodes to find its groove, but now its really good.
I rarely watch shows live, but have taken to keeping Tue @ 10pm free to catch this.
Great cast, good story lines. Looking forward to there being a Season 2.
I rarely watch shows live, but have taken to keeping Tue @ 10pm free to catch this.
Great cast, good story lines. Looking forward to there being a Season 2.
New Fave
koristephens26 April 2018
Do research
benjaminagage27 January 2019
Awesome Show
natashamleenl26 April 2018
Warning: Spoilers
The beautiful Ms. Erica Ash has done it again but with a twist! In Contempt gives an on the ground angle into the life of an attorneys journey from near infancy. The reasons I like the show is because it shows the raw details that may not be shown or is overlooked on other law shows. For instance the anxiety that she has when she is in the thick of a trial displays, the stress an attorney feels and copes with, the vices that are utilized, and the ever breeding competition. This show is to say the least refreshing!
Don't let the trailers fool you
belovedkr22 April 2018
When I saw that this show was from the producers of Law & Order I was intrigued, avid admirer of all the L&W shows. Then I watched it and thought this can'tt possibly be right because I was thinking Dick Wolf, and Co would never back this.. The concept is good but the execution of said concept is not. It's over the top drama that's trying to be something it's not.
There wasn't anything that makes you want to watch the next episode and to say it's a gritty urban version of L&W is highly misleading. It seems rushed and not very well researched.
For now you'd be better off watching reruns of the real L&W or old episodes of The Practice. Lot of work to do on this one, but if cleaned up with better writing, more polished acting it could work.
There wasn't anything that makes you want to watch the next episode and to say it's a gritty urban version of L&W is highly misleading. It seems rushed and not very well researched.
For now you'd be better off watching reruns of the real L&W or old episodes of The Practice. Lot of work to do on this one, but if cleaned up with better writing, more polished acting it could work.
Ep 4
koristephens26 April 2018
Excellent Show with sub par Closed Captioning
memawalou2 May 2018
"In Contempt" is a most excellent program, however for the hearing impaired it has no self contained scripted closed captioning which leaves the voice to text caption not making any sense towards the scenes and script. "In Contempt" needs to include scripted closed captioning that comes up and matches the exact conversation, because you know how badly voice to text works.
Good show
blindsay-3062320 August 2018
Full circle, but never as good next time round
jonmccann13 April 2018
So, here we are, we have come full circle with procedural shows and it's now the turn of the legal profession to have a fictional drama, that is a regurgitation of the old style TV series such as Law and Order...With the exception that again, the script writing is poor and the acting terrible.
At least SWAT had the sense to base it on an original and keep tones of the original show, giving it an almost honest appeal, even if the first few episodes were dire and not great writing or acting (though it has improved in the last few episodes in my opinion). This though decides to go it as a standalone and is just appalling, there is no realism to the show, the in court scenes are laughable and silly, at one point I almost expected a 'gutsiest move I ever saw' reference as the lead was handcuffed for the third time...I might have actually found it funny and redeeming had they written that in, although maybe a 'You can't handle the truth' would be more apt!!
As it is, it is another woeful TV series that may or may not get a full run simply because it is politically charged with a racism theme running through it (oh and a little misogyny!), but if this is the level of script writing that we can expect from new American TV series, with a lot of older TV series coming to their end of life (Criminal Minds can't have much longer, neither Law and Order SVU, not to mention the already confirmed silly show that is Scandal), then I won't be bothering, not with some great Canadian shows around and interestingly Australian and New Zealand shows about!
Give this a miss, or maybe judge for yourself, 45 minutes isn't a lot of time to spare and you will get a laugh!
At least SWAT had the sense to base it on an original and keep tones of the original show, giving it an almost honest appeal, even if the first few episodes were dire and not great writing or acting (though it has improved in the last few episodes in my opinion). This though decides to go it as a standalone and is just appalling, there is no realism to the show, the in court scenes are laughable and silly, at one point I almost expected a 'gutsiest move I ever saw' reference as the lead was handcuffed for the third time...I might have actually found it funny and redeeming had they written that in, although maybe a 'You can't handle the truth' would be more apt!!
As it is, it is another woeful TV series that may or may not get a full run simply because it is politically charged with a racism theme running through it (oh and a little misogyny!), but if this is the level of script writing that we can expect from new American TV series, with a lot of older TV series coming to their end of life (Criminal Minds can't have much longer, neither Law and Order SVU, not to mention the already confirmed silly show that is Scandal), then I won't be bothering, not with some great Canadian shows around and interestingly Australian and New Zealand shows about!
Give this a miss, or maybe judge for yourself, 45 minutes isn't a lot of time to spare and you will get a laugh!
Need A New Season
ahnaebali7 October 2019
What in a exciting show!
Poobear3000200619 January 2020
Gritty and well done
kevinmmarkham-50-30097720 February 2019
Having just watched all of season 1 in one hit. I am hoping that this is not a 1 season wonder. The end has me not only wanting more but needing to know what happens next. I watch a lot of tv and enjoy legal tv shows like For the People and Suits this was in the same league well done to the cast i for one loved it.
Not such a bad show
daiangel27 October 2018
Great show
cpitts-5301224 September 2018
And, Why was this show cancelled?
tremon4225 April 2021
LOVED IT!
seatheworld-3879318 May 2021
This was a great show
hq0rim21 March 2019
This is a show I truly loved watching. The cases focus on all aspects and showed how the judicial system fails us daily. It also made you appreciate to hard work of a public defender who has very little to work with but still shows up to fight. BET dropped the ball here.
Where's Season 2???
msharpe727 July 2019
Really good show.
geedeeaich25 April 2020
What is the hold up?!?!?!?!?!
temarijoe-795388 March 2019
This show got my attention on the first episode. Can yall please bring it back? I have been waiting too long to know if it's been canceled or what. This show is breath taking, come on man, yall gotta being it back!!!!!
Awfully good
cebanks-2895919 July 2020
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