I enjoyed the conclusion a great deal, a great great deal more than I expected to a week ago.
The eczema storyline was excellent, despite the concerns and squeamishness
in situ.
It was a great way to demonstrate in a novel and affecting way the insecurities and stresses of having the fate of a client in your hands. When you are passionate and determined, your shortcomings are going to find a way out. There's a reason attorneys deal with alcoholism and depression and seek out illicit conduct in their off time, beyond big motors and outsized egos.
I may have related this before, but the very first trial I second-chaired, I didn't have a lot of input on. I was a month out of passing the bar and was there to observe mostly, and it was a loser of a case with one of the weaker attorneys at the firm [as will bear itself out shortly].
It was an MVA civil claim, and the parties had haggled at great length over aspects not to be introduced [in limine]. The attorney I was 2nd chairing sat through the plaintiff's opening statement, then promptly stood up and in the second sentence out of his mouth mentioned something barred in limine by the judge not an hour earlier.
Opposing counsel immediately moved for, and got a mistrial. More importantly, he had a heart attack right then and there. Emergency Services summoned and taken out on a gurney.
Needless to say, that experience has stuck with me.
There are plenty of technical aspects to critique in the story, but overall I think the show did a great job of highlighting some of the lesser dramatized, but truly crucial aspects of the litigation process. The split-second gut decisions, the gravity of a glance, the tactics and insinuations used to drive doubt or certainty, the shortcuts and messiness, the overall drain on humanity. It can be depressing, it can be exhilarating. It almost always emotional, even if the professionals pretend it's not. That's the part they nailed.