The Code: CBS's latest military legal drama is a drag and waste of major talent

Predictable, slow and boring, 'The Code' is a show the network could have done without, and it fails its cast miserably too
UPDATED APR 3, 2019

On a regular day, legal shows take our fancy. We appreciate a good episode of the 'Suits' with its relationship drama and convoluted corporate, high society issues. Or 'The Good Wife' with its scandalous storyline. But CBS’s new legal drama, which works within the confines of the US Marine Corps, doesn't excite us all that much.

A drama about "the military's brightest minds, who tackle the toughest legal challenges facing the US Marine Corps", 'The Code' aims to offer an insight into some of the most difficult cases faced by the Marines, and the exhaustive, meticulous process put in by the legal system so that justice and law and order can prevail.

But 'The Code' really fails to deliver on this front. In fact, the pilot episode, titled "Blowed Up", was such a drag that we found ourselves checking how much of the roughly 45-minute episode was left for us to endure.

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