Nearly thirty years after it became a big-screen movie starring Matt Damon, John Grisham’s courtroom thriller The Rainmaker is getting the TV series treatment, courtesy of USA. But did it acquit itself well?

Friday’s premiere opens with a man played by The Walking Dead’ s Dan Fogler waking up in the dead of night to discover his house is on fire. He yells for his mother, but he can’t reach her bedroom, so he runs out of the house coughing and wheezing as the whole house goes up in flames. Then we meet Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) and his girlfriend Sarah (Madison Iseman), recent law school grads who have lined up jobs at a prestigious firm. They’re offering free legal advice at an event, and a woman there says her son Donny Ray went to the hospital with the flu and died there. The a

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