YOUR HONOR
Showtime, 10:00 p.m. ET
Episode 1, from last week, set up this show’s blood-curdling “What if?” – establishing Bryan Cranston as an empathic New Orleans judge whose son commits a hit-and-run, the victim of which is the teen son of the city’s most powerful and feared crime boss. If he did the right thing and turned in his son, which the judge was doing until he learned the identity of the young man his son had accidentally killed, the vengeful mobster surely would have the judge’s son murdered in retribution. And if he concealed the crime to save his son’s life, what happens then, whether it works or not? That’s where we are tonight, as Episode 2 establishes even more deeply the characters and the dangers. Hope Davis, who since co-starring in the 2003 Harvey Pekar biopic American Splendor has been great in a lot of excellent TV series (such as In Treatment, Mildred Pierce and The Newsroom, all for HBO), comes on strong, and fierce, as Gina Baxter, the mob boss’ grieving wife.