Agree that the kiss made no sense. Nor did Chandra's buying and bringing Naz drugs, which made even less sense as it was framed as something she had to do to get Naz to testify, a quid pro quo - completely unbelievable.
It also made no sense that Helen would not have fulfilled her constitutional and ethical obligations to notify the defense that Ray, who had committed a very similar assault, had a relationship with Andrea, may well have stolen $300,000.00 from him, had what clearly appears to have been an argument with her on the night of the murder, and lied about going and remaining home after that when he in fact left home to be very near Andrea's home at the time of the murder.
Not because some prosecutors don't do very improper things. Not because some defense lawyers don't sometimes do very stupid and or improper things, or that no defense attorney ever gets sexually involved with his or her clients (John's involvements with his hooker clients were much more believable). But because these two women were presented to us as capable, likable, smart, very professional lawyers. The script forced us to try to believe they would do things that were completely out of character for them and in circumstances which (unlike the circumstances of John sleeping with his client) simply defied all belief.
Moreover, if Helen had actually believed so much in Naz's guilt that she would have shirked her responsibilities of notifying the defense about the mountain of evidence against Ray - highly out of character for her to begin with, in addition to being unlawful - then she would certainly not have so quickly declined to prosecute for retrial immediately after the jury came back deadlocked.
Having said all of that, the series did many things well, some of them exceptionally well.
Updated On: 8/31/16 at 04:19 PM
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