Goliath Season 1 episode 3 Game On

      The judge gives Billy only one day to make a compelling offer of proof before he dismisses the lawsuit.  Patty is trying to gather as many people from town as possible to talk about the class action lawsuit.  Someone who has taken notice is Diana and Patty follows up with her.  Diana is trying to assure Patty that she is just on the creative side of things.  Diana now has ideas about what her brother has been doing to survive the money drought.

     Diana is clearly getting nervous because after her talk with Patty she drives over to Gene’s house to talk with him.  She wants to convince him that the class action lawsuit will just leave his wife’s memory lost in a sea of faces and money and at the end of it Gene will still be in that house with his grief.  She’s working the angle of getting him to leave it all behind and move forward into a new life and it works.  He tells Billy that he doesn’t want to be part of any of it anymore.  He blames Billy for his wife’s death saying that she came to him with this case about the water before she died and he didn’t take the case.  5* (I really liked this episode)

Directed by Alik Sakharov, written by David E. Kelley and Jonathan Shapiro with Billy Bob Thornton, William Hurt, Maria Bello, Olivia Thirlby, Nina Arianda, Molly Parker, Tania Raymonde, Sarah Wynter, Britain Dalton, Ever Carradine, Damon Gupton, Harold Perrineau, Dwight Yoakam, Kevin Weisman, Jore-Luis Pallo, Rigo Sanchez, Gilbert Owuor.

Note:  Each episode 55 min, action, Imdb 8.1* out of 10*, Amazon 4* out of 5* with 84,783 reviews, Metacritic 65 out of 100 with 26 critic reviews 7.6 out of 10 with 114 user scores. 

Special Note:  Character actor Brent Briscoe, the beach bum, appeared in Billy Bob Thorton's Sling Blade and acted in other of his films including A Simple Plan.  Billy McBride tells Father Anan that no Catholic priest would give a full Catholic funeral to someone who had committed suicide.  This was the doctrine of the Church in the past but it has not been Church policy for at least 20 years.  This is referring to the possible suicide of of Ryan Larson.  He is the husband of Gina and the father of Jason.  They believe Ryan would not commit suicide and it’s possible his employer was involved in Ryan’s death instead?    

Mistakes:  William Hurt pronounces Persephone "Percy phone”