Review by pkgoode-536-671280

The underlying premise of this loose adaptation of Scott Turow's 1987 best-seller appears to be that every defendant deserves a presumption of innocence, self-absorbed and reckless though he may be. True enough, but does this point require eight increasingly melodramatic episodes focused on a uniquely unsympathetic character's ongoing missteps and betrayals? Still, Presumed Innocent moves along and benefits from strong performances by Peter Sarsgaard as the lead prosecutor and especially O-T Fagbenle as the smarmy, political animal DA who nurses doubts about the prosecution strategy. Marred by an unsatisfying conclusion and what surely must be the most whiny and self-aggrieved closing argument in the history of courtroom dramas.