Naturally, he's a gay guy without a boyfriend, without any apparent interest in sex, perhaps without genitalia. All right, we'll stop making lame jokes and describe the lame show. On the premiere, a trio of pat storylines is paraded by with as little energy and conviction as possible. One of them is about a young black woman who gave her baby up for adoption but changed her mind when the baby went to a white couple. They just sit there in the judge's chambers while the others jabber.
Actors have to be paid more if they talk.
Maybe NBC should have gone a few steps farther with its penny-pinching and made more of the characters mute, since so much of what they do say isn't worth saying anyway. TV might actually get better. The second episode, airing next Monday, improves upon the first only in the tiniest and most marginal ways. Perhaps, indeed, the improvements are illusory, the result of wishful thinking by the reviewer. One line of dialogue is memorable though.