斷斷續(xù)續(xù)過了這么久才補完，很可惜這已經(jīng)是最后一季。律政劇兩季被砍應該是少見的了。

我非常喜歡它。

接檔上一季的故事，這一季開篇就用力很猛，開頭兩集的議題振聾發(fā)聵。只是上一季風光無限的alpha male角色戲份被一擼到底，是演員檔期出現(xiàn)什么變故了嗎？

整部劇洋溢著一種校園劇式的輕松歡快，比起drama來幾乎要算是comdy了。同時能很明顯地感受到，整劇的配樂用得很重，臺詞也都寫很長、很有文采，感覺編劇應該是個新人吧。

和the good fight不同，盡管本劇一直努力貼近當下社會熱點，但卻沒有偏離律政題材太遠。最后一集尤其感動，算是給明年的大選未雨綢繆了。是因為知道自己被砍嗎？

這部劇的名稱來自于著名的三民－－葛底斯堡演說的“民有、民治、民享”，天涯小筑翻譯成《護法為民》著實精妙。

2019年實在是非同尋常的一年，法律在人們心中的權威性不斷被動搖?？粗蛏细鞣N官樣文章鄭重其事、向下各種官方賬號插科打諢，實在讓人不適。法律的尊嚴并不是因為它無可撼動、不可動搖。最后一集說的很好：恫嚇選民最惡劣的不在于它違法，而是它打著維護正義的幌子施惡。它把民主架得無比高大而空洞無物，無人能觸及。這并不是維護它，而是讓它失去意義和功能。

我很喜歡看律政劇，一方面因為辯論隊出身，看人類舌燦蓮花針鋒相對總覺得光彩奪目；另一方面，在反復討論、辯駁、據(jù)理力爭甚至質疑其本身的存在合理性，法律這一抽象而縹緲的意象也變得扎實有力起來?！皭悍ǚ欠ā焙汀坝蟹ū匾馈钡目罐q并非動搖法律存在基石，而正是通過震顫來夯實基地，予以實踐。正是在一次次對抗和挑戰(zhàn)中，法律本身變得更加健壯而完善；它當然是傷痕累累、諸多疏漏，如同永不可補完的密網(wǎng)，但這反而給了它真實的尊嚴。

從劇作本身來看，它遠算不上完美。但它帶給我的沖擊和感動、為我修復的對人類社會的信心，讓我可以理直氣壯地給它打五星。很遺憾字幕組水平有限，在翻譯的遣詞造句甚至準確性上都有諸多紕漏，里面案件的結案陳詞真的值得抄錄下來背誦：

In a few hours, you're going to go through that door, you're going to sit down together, you're going to sort through the evidence, you're going to listen to each other, you're going to argue, You will. And then you're gonna do what humans have done throughout history to make difficult and important decisions. You are going to vote.

We are here so that you can vote. Our entire system of justice is built on this. Your vote. So, now, imagine, you go back into that room, and someone comes in and says, "Wait, no. Not you." No. No. No. No. No. You can't vote. He votes. And him. And him. And that's it. That is this case.

Mr.Spiller created a sophisticated operation to deprive Americans of their existential right to participate in self-government. It is flagrantly undemocratic, but what is so pernicious and insidious about this operation is that it pretends to preserve the democratic government it undermines. "We're just rooting out 'fraud.' "We're just trying to 'protect' the vote." We care about the 'integrity'of the election." These are lies. And these are dangerous lies, because the greatest threat to democracy is making it meaningless. Hollow. Dysfunctional. If you live in an authoritarian government, And some of you have, I'm sure there is always the promise of democracy. There is hope. But if appears to be a democracy and it doesn't work, what is there left to hope for? There is here, now, something left to hope for.

Democracy isn't one story. It is our story. Of coming together. Of building and progress. Of unity and participation and representation. It is a story. That starts with one person on one day in one line pulling one lever. An ink-stained thumb. A red pinky. A paper ticket in a plastic bucket. An X. A number. A digit. A pencil mark. A raised hand. A voice.

A vote. A choice. A choice between two things. And this choice today is yours. You can continue to tell this story, our story. Or you can help end it.

這段話幾乎和神探夏洛克季末、Mary留下的遺言如出一轍。

能與2012年The Newsroom首集Will的speech “Why America is not the greatest country any more”媲美了，如果我有一個sharper mind。

Jay: I don’t understand what’s happening here. What country is this?

Tina: This is America.

Jay: This is not the America I know. When I came here with my family, we had nothing and we struggle. But we built a life here and we were welcome here. For years, my Dad kept this little picture of Ronald Regan above our kitchen table, with this quotes from him bout immigrants. “This families came here to work. They came to build. They brought with them courage, ambition, and the values of family.” That is the America I know. I am an immigrant. I am the child of immigrants. We were welcome here.

Tina: And today you probably wouldn’t be.

This is America. It expands and it contracts. Advances and recedes. Opens and closes. This is a country birthed in freedom and built on slavery. Separating families? They separated the black families in America for 250 years. What makes this feel so bad now is that we expect more. And that’s a good thing. This pain is progress.

But do not forget who we are and where we come from. I do not forget where I came from. I grew up in West Baltimore, around the corner from where Justice Marshall grew up. This Justice Marshall. He knew my father. He stood in my living room. The elementary school I went to, Mt. Royal, I went to because of him. I’m here, because of him. He was the grandson of a slave, and he changed American law. He changed the very idea of the Constitution! He made a document that considered him three-fifths of a man. A document of liberation.

This is the America I know. A beacon and a curse. Light and darkness. Hope and despair. This is America right now. But America never ends.

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1. Anna Deavere Smith的表演實在太漂亮，鏗鏘有力，抑揚頓挫。同片演員Ben Rappaport（飾演Seth）在推上說這段獨白恰恰是Anna Deavere Smith被稱為國寶的原因。

2. 最后一句：這是我認識的美國。是一座燈塔也是一個詛咒。是光明也是黑暗。是希望也是絕望。這是如今的美國，然而我們從不消亡。

3. 從黑人的角度解讀如今這段混亂的、以驅逐移民甚至不惜拆散家庭為使命的社會歷史不得不說沒有諷刺意味，但是演員演出了因為懂得所以慈悲的大悲大愛之感——我夸張了，請見諒。

3. 改變了法律的Justice Marshall指的是用Brown v. Board of Education推翻美國隔離教育法案的那位法官，Thurgood Marshall。他在1991年逝世。

4. “五分之三個人”是美國奴隸制時代一個針對有效選舉人數(shù)的一條協(xié)議法案。