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Goliath
2016 · TV series · 4 seasons
Created by David E. Kelley, Jonathan Shapiro
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive law firm he helped create, Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.
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The final season of Goliath [0] is very much inspired by the opioid crisis and deals with a lawyer suing the family. Hopefully real life lawsuits will be inspired by the outcomes in the series ;-) Another highly recommended series to watch.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_(TV_series)
I've just watched season 3 of the legal drama 'Goliath' starring Billy Bob Thornton, which was ALL about almond farmers in California trying to get water. Really good show, totally recommend it.
There is this TV show called Goliath, on Amazon. In the latest season, a drug company gives work to many attorneys, with the sole aim of preventing them from being on the opposite side later on. I had no idea this was a thing.
Companies do all kinds of shady shit to go around the law. They will push and stretch laws to the max, if there is profit to be made.
In which case, don't pay for prime, and just pay for the pay-per-view. In any case, you're complaining about them bundling something which they are not bundling.
Since you haven't found anything interesting on prime to watch, I'll give you a couple suggestions for prime original series which I found good (or have on good authority are worthy):
Goliath - This was excellent from start to finish. It's only 8 episodes, so easy to consume.
The Man in the High Castle - Interesting to me in how the geopolitics of two superpowers in the 60's play out when those superpowers are Nazi Germany and Militaristic Japan, and the parallels to the U.S. and U.S.S.R. during the same period. A little bit of mostly unexplained and low-key science fiction in-story to drive it keeps it interesting as well.
Red Oaks - Only caught one episode, but my wife has seen it all and thought it was fairly funny and it seemed interesting in an 80's John Hughes sort of way.
These days I enjoy all of the Amazon TV shows a lot more than anything Netflix does (except for House of Cards and maybe Fuller house and that other TV show I forgot the name of). I guess I am just not the target audience of many of the shows Netflix makes these days. For example, I am tired of superhero stuff that has tons of unnecessary violence (like very detailed violence).
So that plus the fact that most of the other shows on Netflix are useless in a sense made me cancel it.
So these days I enjoy shows like Goliath and Bosch and even Grand Tour, all which are Amazon Prime Shows.
My opinion is not that you are wrong that you prefer Netflix, but rather I am disagreeing with:
>Especially compared to any other streaming service, such as Amazon or Hulu, they continue to provide much higher-end content for my dollar, as well as a (far) superior UI experience.
Personally, over the years the UI of Netflix has gotten worse as well.
Finally, after almost five years of membership I cancelled my subscription with them since I found that I barley use them. I guess I will just sign up eventually for a month or two to catch up with the shows I mentioned, but that's about it.
I have an Apple TV, so to watch Amazon content I'm consigned to stream it from my phone using AirPlay.
However, that works surprisingly well. And it has a bonus feature: While the episode is playing, you get annotations on the phone about what actors are on the screen and what music is playing, with the ability to click on them to get bios etc.
(I'm sure this isn't offered on every show streaming on Prime; the last example I remember was Goliath.)
It's crazy how big of a difference the various Roku apps have in terms of quality. Amazon Video and Shudder (two I have used recently) were lacking in so many ways compared to the polish that Netflix has.
I was watching Goliath last weekend on Amazon Video via the Roku player, and 6 minutes prior to the ending of an episode, they dim the screen to start a countdown of playing the next episode. While Netflix has had some hiccups in cutting off some cold opens of some shows, it's vastly better and consistent in behaviour.