Your Honor (2020)

Overview
New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.
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Overview
New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.
Starring Cast
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Primary
The series critiques systemic corruption and the abuse of power within the justice system, highlighting how privilege and racial bias lead to devastating consequences and a cycle of injustice, aligning with progressive critiques of institutional failures.
The series features visible diversity in its cast, including prominent roles for minority actors, without explicitly recasting traditionally white roles. Its narrative incorporates themes of race and class within the justice system, but it does not explicitly critique or portray traditional identities negatively.
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Your Honor features several LGBTQ+ characters, including a lesbian love interest (Olivia) and a lesbian crime boss (Big Mo), alongside minor gay characters. While their identities are present and acknowledged, they are largely incidental to the main plot. The portrayals avoid harmful stereotypes but do not explicitly affirm or denigrate queer identity, resulting in a neutral overall impact on representation.
The American adaptation of 'Your Honor' features characters like Charlie Figaro and Lee Delamere, who were portrayed by actors of Israeli/Middle Eastern descent in the original Israeli series 'Kvodo.' In the US version, these roles are played by Black actors, constituting a race swap.
The series portrays the Baxter crime family as devout Catholics who frequently use their faith as a performative facade, a means of control, or a justification for their violent and corrupt actions. The narrative consistently highlights the hypocrisy between their outward piety and their brutal criminal enterprise, suggesting a problematic and corrupted relationship with their religion.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The American series "Your Honor" is an adaptation of the Israeli show "Kvodo." A review of the main characters and their counterparts across both versions reveals no instances where a character canonically established as one gender in the original is portrayed as a different gender in the adaptation.
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