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...Kyle McAvoy is a brutally overworked first-year associate at the high-flying, albeit fictional, Manhattan law firm Scully & Pershing. Fresh out of Yale Law - he edited the law review there - Kyle works up to 100 hours a week. He keeps a sleeping bag under his desk. He makes $200,000 a year, but he barely has time to spend...
...Kyle McAvoy isn't any ordinary first-year associate. He has an ugly secret in his past: when he was in college at Duquesne, he and three other fraternity brothers were involved in an incident with a girl who may or may not have been passed out drunk while two of the frat boys had sex with her. Kyle has an ugly secret in his present, too: he may or may not have been there during, and hence implicated in, this possible-rape, but either way there's a video of the whole scene, and a mysterious organization is using...
...joyless. The members of the mysterious organization are villainous to the point of cliché. (They have hairy hands and thin lips and slight accents - those bastards!) Even the possible-rape victim is shrill and self-serving and, well, cynical and joyless. As a result the book hangs on Kyle, and Kyle remains something of a cipher. He's got a kindly divorced father who lives in a small town in Pennsylvania and hunts deer, so we know we're supposed to like him. But mostly he just flip-flops between being angry and being very, very tired...
...Then again, contemporary reality does have some useful innovations. Like an enlightened approach to sexual violence, for example. Here's Kyle's frat brother Joey, a putative good guy and our second male lead, thinking back on his memories of that night with his frat brothers: "If a girl consents to sex," he wonders, "can she change her mind once things are underway? Or if she consents to sex, then blacks out halfway through the act, how can she later claim she'd changed her mind? Difficult questions, and Joey wrestled with them as he drove...
...work but still undyingly willing to have faith and hope. Shot intimately with handheld camera, it's a moving but unsentimental celebration of community, of pulling together not just because it's right but also because it's necessary. The show's moral center, coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) puts it best when a former player asks him why he insists on trying to help him get his life together: "Because I need something good to happen." Is there anybody in America who disagrees...