Write yourselves an email, write it on the back of your hand, send a courier pigeon to your house, call your voicemail, staple a note to your newborn child, do something that reminds you to watch the premiere of DAMAGES on FX tonight at 10pm.

This show will blow your mind! You will not be sorry. Here’s my DAMAGES PREMIERE REVIEW.

DAMAGES premiers Tuesday, July 24th on FX and I have 4 words for you all. MUST SEE FRAKKIN’ TV! This is not your parent’s procedural or crime drama; DAMAGES is an intense, involved, smart and really dark psychological thriller.

Glenn Close heads up the stellar cast which includes Rose Byrne, Ted Danson, Tate Donovan, Zeljko Ivanek, Casey Siemasko and more. Ruthless barely scratches the surface of how you would describe the high powered litigator Close plays. Patty Hewes can be compared to Meryl Streep’s sinister Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada but in doing so it almost weakens the character of Patty Hewes. Yeah, she’s that hardcore.

DAMAGES is a legal thriller set in the world of New York City high-stakes litigation. The series, which provides a view into the true nature of power and success, follows the turbulent lives of Patty Hewes, the nation’s most revered and reviled high-stakes litigator, and her bright, ambitious, protégé Ellen Parsons as they become embroiled in a class action lawsuit targeting the allegedly corrupt Arthur Frobisher, one of the country’s wealthiest CEOs. As Patty battles with Frobisher and his attorney Ray Fiske, Ellen Parsons will be front and center witnessing just what it takes to win at all costs, as it quickly becomes clear that lives, as well as fortunes, may be at stake.

That’s the description the network has released for the show. What it doesn’t tell you is that the Frobisher case is only the tip of the iceberg. This will not be a case of the week show. There is a central case with a very dark overarching mystery tied into every character on the show not to mention the high profile Frobisher case.

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If you thought Glenn Close starring on FX’s The Shield was a great career move for the mega superstar then get ready kids because this summer she returns to television and FX with DAMAGES.

Unfortunately I have not seen the pilot for DAMAGES yet but Jace, The Televisionary has and he wrote up a whole synopsis of the Pilot Episode of DAMAGES.  Should you be tuning in?  Jace says hell yeah and admits that it was one of the best Pilots he read this season.

What exactly is Damages? I can only describe it as John Grisham’s The Firm meets Murder One, an intricate stunner of a mystery spread out over the first season that sets righteous crusader/litigator Patty Hewes (the transcendant Glenn Close) against corporate fat cat Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson), a billionaire who screwed his employees out of their pensions. Patty and Frobisher will each stop at nothing to win this case and literally millions of dollars hangs in the balance of this lawsuit.

It’s enough for me to give it a shot so please read his Televisionary Review of DAMAGES.