Kenneth Ellison

It came out of the gate strong with some great episodes showcasing Memphis as a city with great potential to inflict change on a society. However, it falls short of this seemingly impossible goal because the show likes to try and maintain a balancing act of both being a multi-million dollar Memphis tourist commercial with the dramatic side of a Father/Daughter well off legal duo trudging through a poorly defined relationship struggle. There are a few VERY poignant episodes that take very careful perspectives hopeless legal situations like the one about the little girl that sues multiple reps of the US govt for blaming each other without fixing her town's flood problem, one about how a tweet from a racist incell calling for violence has the potential create an environment for homicide, or even the bait and switch episode about the legal professor using his age discrimination case to create new legal definitions. These are great narratives, but a handful of those thown into the full first season hasn't been enough to create any consistency, which is why it has such low ratings. Less focus on the commercial side of the city and more projections from the community into the main story would push this show back into the local ratings, and a sense of genuine grit is exactly what Bluff City Law needs if it's going to want to survive. Otherwise it's just another main street pop-up shop that'll have a new title next season.

Fallon tries REALLY hard, but he just can't hold a candle to Colbert, Meyers, or Corden unless he's playing a game with an A-lister or pissing his pants from having to touch an animal.