Uchi no Bengoshi wa Te ga Kakaru Episodes 1+2

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Kuramae has worked for 30 years as manager for successful actress Kichise Michiko. She fires him out of the blue and somehow he ends up getting a job as a paralegal for youngest lawyer ever played by sour faced Hirate Yurina who has a very good legal brain but no people skills. 

Uchi No Bengoshi wa Te ga Kakaru is your typical two flawed people who team up and make up for each other's weaknesses legal dorama.

WHAT DON'T I LIKE ABOUT IT

- Kuramae whining about how for 30 years he took minimum wage for Kichise Michiko's sake. This is the stupidest line the writer can write trying to force sympathy for the manager who got fired. 30 years managing a successful actress doing CMs and movies and you are only taking minimum. There's a difference between empathy for characters facing unfortunate events and stupid idiots who deserved what they got and Kuramae deserves no sympathy. 

What sort of logic is it paying yourself the bare minimum when you actress is making money hand over first? Where is the producer smart enough to tell the writer that this is the worst line ever written? This is like those woe is me clickbait 'news' articles where if you actually read it until the end, the subject of the article actually deserves no sympathy.

- Just like the writer tried to hard to force empathy for Kuramae, Uchi no Bengoshi wa Te ga Kakaru is vehicle to promote idoru Hirate Yurina who was also in contender for worst jdorama ever Roppongi class. Her character is smart lawyer who does not have people skills but I just find her chemistry with Kurame just meh and I just finder her annoying instead of endearing.

Idorus should be playing supporting roles and they have surrounded her with so many veterans from Toda Keiko to Adachi Yumi but she is the main character of the story and is not the right person to carry this show. Is Hirate Yurina the new Gouriki Ayame/ Ueto Aya, another overpushed talento who does not deserve the spot?

Shinso wa Mimi no Naka was suprisingly watchable because the idoru Tsutsui Ayame did not have to carry the dorama and her dad played by Ihara Tsuyoshi did all the heavy lifting. Tsuyoshi Muro tries very hard but doesn't work for me.

SUMMARY

Uchi no Bengoshi wa Ta ga Kakaru is an example of the two worst things about jdoramas: Overpushing idorus and trying too hard to make everything so tragic. Not bad enough to get a do not watch because all the veteran actors are trying but very meh from me and dropping it straight away. Only for fans of Hirate Yurina.