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5 Caprica Law
Spun off from: Battlestar Galactica
Who’s in it? Romo Lampkin, lawyer extraordinaire. With him on your side you’re in safe hands, even if the charge against you is genocide.
What’s it about? Life on Caprica isn’t exactly a thrill-a-minute for Romo Lampkin. He works hard in a public litigation office while struggling to keep his marriage from disintegrating around his ears. After a while he starts to lose his way, developing kleptomania, obsessing over his cases and hiding himself behind a pair of sunglasses (all the better to sneakily “read” people without being seen). The murder of his parents as a child and his hatred of Joseph Adama have affected him deeply – but his troubles have made him a defence attorney to be reckoned with…
Why do we want it? Anybody remember Century City ? It starred Ioan Gruffudd and was a lawyer show set in 2030, where all the cases focused on cloning, virtual reality and genetics. It was clever, complex and intelligent… and, given a twist, a poke, a touch of film noir and a lead character as eminently watchable as Battlestar ’s Romo Lampkin, it could become compulsive viewing for those among us who find ordinary courtroom dramas a little repetitive.
Of course, there’s always a danger of losing something along the way when you reveal too much about an otherwise enigmatic character, but we have faith that Mark Sheppard could make Lampkin the Dr Gregory House of the courtroom – messed up, brilliant and utterly unmissable.
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