Critic's Notebook: 'All Rise' Quarantine Episode Raises the Bar by Being Average

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It was bound to happen: CBS aired TV's first filmed-at-home, quarantine-themed drama

I would point to this week's episode of CBS', which became the first drama series to attempt a filmed-at-home, quarantine-specific new episode of television.was never all that great a show to begin with. When it premiered in the fall, the most encouraging note in , which has held true the few times I've checked in subsequently — especially sinceevaporated into the ether early in the fall. [It was that legal show with Jimmy Smits. No, not THAT legal show with Jimmy Smits.

Even if all of the show's courtroom locations were off-limits, meaning no stairwell conversations, the episode effectively used Zoom/Skype-type streaming interludes for the same purpose. Plus, thanks to B-roll footage of Los Angeles in lockdown, the episode never felt entirely claustrophobic. I'm not sure if the final cathartic group Zoom dance came across as-esque because of the presence of Peter MacNicol, but there are much worse shows for your legal dramedy to evoke.

So Mike Schur and his team knew that audiences would have characters they needed to see, references they needed made and shout-outs that demanded bellowing to the back of the theater, and that's what the special was. I'm not sure I laughed a single time, but I smiled frequently and nodded enthusiastically in places and I cheered when NBC reported how much money had been raised for charity. If it was pandering, and it surely was pandering, there are worse ways you can pander.

 

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SdOceanSea CBS We tried to watch it. It was stupid. Don’t ever do this again, or we won’t watch it anymore. Capice?

CBS Too soon I couldn’t watch it

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