Imagine a 1995 novel about a scrappy young lawyer whose clients are suing a health insurance company that refused to pay for a life-saving treatment, resulting in their son’s death. Now imagine that novel is adapted into a TV series that decides to eliminate the health insurance angle altogether.

Weird decision, all things considered! Even taking into account that the show was put in motion before anyone even knew the name Luigi Mangione . The topic is (unfortunately) as evergreen as it gets, and yet conspicuously absent here.

Welcome to USA Network’s “The Rainmaker,” based on the John Grisham book, and which shoulda been a movie. Which it already was. In 1997. From writer-director Francis Ford Coppola and starring Matt Damon.

If you squint, you might remember when USA was known for i

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