Are courtroom battles your guilty pleasure? If you’re looking for a stage dedicated to justice with a story that’s mainly female-centered, you’ve landed on the right article because we have three ace cards up our sleeve. The legal drama has become a television staple, but every story can follow a different focus, spotlighting a variety of figures in the field, from brilliant lawyers to partners at prestigious law firms whose goal is to aim high and shine. Between moral compromises not always easy to reach and unspeakable secrets that could jeopardize their profession and private life, here are three TV series where power isn’t merely a tool to win the case in court, but becomes the only currency to trade in order to survive in a world where backstabbing is always just around the corner.
Which legal dramas to watch if you love TV series with strong female leads
How to Get Away with Murder
Entitled in the original language How To Get Away With Murder, Le regole del delitto perfetto is a legal drama created by Peter Nowalk and produced by Shonda Rhimes with Viola Davis starring as the brilliant and manipulative Annalise Keating. A respected attorney and professor of criminal law among the most feared and admired on campus, Annalise teaches her students how to hold their own in court. She selects five students to assist her along with her partners Bonnie Winterbottom and Frank Delfino, but Annalise’s battle began long ago and is far from over. Spanning six seasons on Disney+, How To Get Away With Murder focuses primarily on a brilliant woman, as charismatic as she is unstable, who frequently finds herself in tricky situations, on the edge of legality (and sometimes beyond). Annalise is ready to bend the law to her advantage and to manipulate anyone to win and protect her secrets, and it’s a difficult lesson for her students to digest, who end up following in her footsteps perhaps a bit too closely.
The Good Fight
Born as a spin-off of the more famous The Good Wife, The Good Fight is a series consisting of six seasons released from 2017 to 2022 and today available in Italy on TimVision, whose story is set a year after the finale of The Good Wife and follows Diane Lockhart, a successful lawyer who loses all her savings following a financial scandal and is forced to start over. For this reason she joins a historic Chicago law firm, carving her way through a justice system that is corrupt and at times surreal, and she is compelled to accept dirty games. The narrative here focuses on social and political battles; the heroines enter the fray in tailored suits and must contend with corporate giants, all while wielding sharp intelligence and cunning.
All’s Fair
More recently released, All’s Fair is a Ryan Murphy creation currently comprising two seasons and streaming on Disney+ that emphasizes the glamourier side of the legal drama. The protagonists belong to a prestigious Los Angeles law firm that specializes mainly in millionaire divorces that typically cause scandals and draw attention. Between Oscar-caliber strategies and underhanded blows, the central figures don’t defend the innocent so much as dismantle financial empires and ruin the public reputations of their rivals. With a cast that includes Kim Kardashian, Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson, Niecy Nash and Naomi Watts, All’s Fair showcases the glamorous facet of power, leveraging marital secrets to their own advantage.
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