Sunday, August 1, 2021

Goliath Season 1 Episode 7 Beauty and the Beast 2016

      With danger mounting around every corner, Billy has to decide whether to head directly to trial or take his chances with a continuance.  This episode is rooted in violence.  Cooperman demands to meet with Billy and there are more layers in this episode.  The FBI becomes involved and Billy is nearly killed.  His wife is caught with her lover by their daughter after she has been to see Billy.  The big meeting is filled with tension and fraught with mystery.      

     When Billy's daughter asks that they not watch Hoosiers, he suggests Rudy and this was also directed by David Anspaugh.  Sling Blade (1996) costars Billy Bob Thornton as Billy McBride and Dwight Yoakam as Wendell Corey are reunited on-screen.  At one point, there are two actors named Hooper in the same room although they are not related.  Diana Hopper, as Billy's daughter Denise McBride, is with her dad when he's watching a scene from Hoosiers with Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper. 

     Internally, there is dysfunction within the firm because Cooperman's paranoia is off the charts.  No one can tell him anything.  Billy has used Brittany and the others and they are really hurting.  They are receiving nothing for this job and they don't know if anything will ever come from the case.  It is clear they are all in danger!!  They begin to extort the cop that beat Billy up.  It appears that no matter what, no one comes out very well.  5* (I really l liked this episode)

Each episode 55 min, action directed by Lawrence Trilling, written by David E. Kelley and Johnathan Shapiro with Billy Bob Thornton, William Hurt, Maria Bello, Olivia Thirlby, Nina Arianda, Molly Parker, Tania Raymonde, Sarah Winter, Britain Dalton, Damon Gupton. Harold Perrineau, Dwight Yoakam, Kevin Weisman, Julie Brister, Jason Ritter.

Note:  Imdb 8.6* out of 10* with 865 reviews, Amazon 4.7* out of 10* with 84,770 reviews.Special Note:  It is finally revealed why Cooperman always plays with the very annoying clicker!!  Some people use a clicker to train animals.  In WW2 paratroopers carried clickers when behind enemy lines.  If someone was approaching, you would click and if they responded, you knew they were on your side.  It was a way to communicate with other Allied Soldiers.

 

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