The first half neatly juxtaposes how Michael and Adam’s days unfold without immediately making it clear that they’re father and son. This first episode is constantly implying the question, “What would you do?” and having us measure just how far the Desiatos have come up short. As Michael, his essential decency is strongly emphasized in the beginning, as is that of his son Adam (Hunter Doohan), whose hit-and-run incident isn’t without some desperate attempt to take responsibility. Call it Breaking Bad But Understandable Given the Circumstances. The moral calculations of Your Honor are quite different, at least in this promising first episode, which carefully lays out his decision-making in a bid for our sympathies.
In other words, to say that Walter White went down a slippery slope is to deny his active intent he wore swim trunks and dove head first down that slippery slope. What he actually wanted - and what he finally admitted to his wife in their very last scene together- was to be Heisenberg, the fearsome drug kingpin he risked everything to become. Walter only ostensibly wanted to help his family by leaving stacks of drug money behind before succumbing to a terminal cancer diagnosis. But there’s an important distinction between Michael Desiato, his New Orleans judge in Your Honor, and Walter White, the science teacher turned meth maestro in Breaking Bad. A lot of comparisons have already been made between Your Honor and Breaking Bad, given Bryan Cranston’s performance here as an upstanding public servant who crosses the line into criminality and presumably continues to improvise a path to total damnation.
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