EPISODE
SEASON
Shark - Season 1 (2006)
Sebastian Stark is a Los Angeles hot-shot lawyer, who leaves his lucrative career as a defender of rich criminals to try public prosecution under the District Attorney. He forms a trial team of his own, consisting of young lawyers, like Casey Woodland, the son of a legislator, who get an opportunity to learn straight from the master, if they can stand his hellish pace, and walk the tightrope between respecting the law while using it and doing whatever it takes to win. A private investigator helps out, digging up factual information. In nearly every episode, a criminal is found out and put behind bars, after testing out tactics in Stark's private mock court. Sebastian often also has to deal with his daughter Julie, who surprisingly chose to live with him after his divorce, rather than with her mother in New York City.
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November 08, 2018
Stark is a made-for-TV character, and Woods clearly loves sharpening his teeth for the biting dialogue.
November 08, 2018
Shark isn't terrible television though, but it's certainly lazy. Take one man out of the equation, and it just doesn't work.
November 08, 2018
Woods is riveting, because he is such a machine gun of an actor, and he makes the ordinary script crackle.
November 08, 2018
When Shark is boiled down to its basic parts, it's just another courtroom drama. However, it rises out of obscurity with a strong cast, led by veteran actor James Woods. In fact, it's Woods' passion in the project that carries the show.
November 08, 2018
Woods knows how to amp up his performance without becoming shrill or ridiculously out-of-scale. You won't exactly believe in Sebastian Stark, sharp-tongued legal warrior extraordinaire, but odds are you will enjoy him.
November 08, 2018
The show works only because Woods is a honey-baked ham playing a character who lives to be a showman.
November 08, 2018
James Woods barking and biting at his best.
November 08, 2018
Mr. Woods has found a television role that suits his gift and runs away with it.
November 08, 2018
Woods is every bit as entertaining as he strives to be. Stark is both a negative energy force and the life of the party. He all but pulls out balloons, sculpts them into dachshunds -- and pops them.
June 15, 2018
Too bad, really - I'd love to see Woods in a good show. But this just ain't it.
November 08, 2018
Shark is pure theater. And like its title character, expect this show to devour everyone in its path.
November 08, 2018
Without Woods, Shark would be just another formulaic legal drama. But his acting chops are sharp and his presence strong.
