Night Court

 

        In my age of trying to expand my horizons of oldy sitcoms that I never watched in my lifetime, and all thanks goes to the streaming services of course. And so, Night Court has been one show where I was intrigued years earlier long before I was laid off. And granted this show did take me a long time to get through because there are times when the show gets slow due to finding their core characters but also in later seasons tend to get slow. But with the grace of God, I finally got through Night Court.

        Honorable Judge Harry T. Stone is a young, hip, jeans-wearing liberal eccentric presiding over the night shift of a Manhattan courtroom -- which means his views on various cases aren't always normal nor are his judgements. 

        Now, what intrigued was one scene with the Star Trek fans and the judge, prosecutor and defense are both bewildered about what they just did, then the Terri Hatcher scene and for some odd reasons I for some reason resonated with me and that became my show for the rest of the past three years. I think in all fairness when watching shows like MASH or Night Court, for some reasons these shows really do resonate just because you know we all have these jobs in our lives where you deal with some weird people that sure you in our point of view we consider these people to be weird of course, but then you have some of them that are such douche bags and you can tell they failed upwards but yet during my time at the TV station these strange characters suddenly appear in real life, for which really I don't know if it's me but either way when you compare these characters to real life people it suddenly becomes great comedy and resonates with your local viewers even with the fact that this show being 43 years old. Granted when watching the show for the first time, I'd always pictured the courtroom scenes being the same as what I had seen on YouTube, but that portion doesn't happen till you get to middle parts of the show. And during the first season on, it's almost like trying to find its core, and then later on, seasons they become great classic comedy, but then again when you get to like seasons seven to its final seasons then it became a long bore fest but some great moments where it's funny especially scenes where Dan Fielding is getting life kicked under him or Harry is seeing through his BS which again is funny and then going through the long courtroom sessions are funny too. And especially when you see Christine Sullivan comes in for first appearance, she's gorgeous with her 80's style hair but then has professional hair cut through later seasons which becomes a bummer but that's a minor gripe. All and all the shows are a great experience, it has that feel and comedic taste of you feeling like you’re experiencing a time when TV comedy uses to be funny when compared to this generation’s television where it's absolute crape. And with Night Court it was a once over type show and maybe when I'm old and have nothing to do, I go back and rewatch the show though I can't make a whole lot of promises towards my future self.