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Raising the Bar

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Raising the Bar	label	Raising the Bar
Raising the Bar	page	RaisingTheBar
Raising the Bar	comment	Raising The Bar is a Courtroom Drama from Steven Bochco, which started its first season on TNT in summer 2008. It follows a group of friends from law school who, despite taking different paths (two of them are prosecutors, two are public defenders and one is the secretary of a judge) have kept in touch and, at least outside the courtroom, maintain a relatively friendly relationship.The first season took a while to find its identity but wound up being largely about the antagonistic relationship between main character Jerry Kellerman (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) and Judge Trudy Kessler (Jane Kaczmarek). The second season gave the other characters more screen time and development, and moved away from the "This City Only Has One Judge" theme by adding two more characters in robes. With the first utterance of the word "bullshit" in the last episode, it also looked much more like a Bochco series than it did in the first season, which managed, despite being on cable, to be tame compared to NYPD Blue.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })
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Raising the Bar / int_44e64e96	type	Female Gaze
Raising the Bar / int_44e64e96	comment	Jerry spends a fair amount of time taking his shirt off, putting it on and just generally being shirtless in one episode. Bobbi appreciates it.
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Raising the Bar / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Raising the Bar / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Gavin tries to make Bobbi feel like she drove him to hang himself.
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Raising the Bar / int_7480eb67	type	Green-Eyed Epiphany
Raising the Bar / int_7480eb67	comment	Green-Eyed Epiphany: Bobbi pushes Jerry away a few times before finally wising up and acting on her feelings after she senses an attraction between him and an attractive professor he brings in as an expert witness.
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Raising the Bar / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Raising the Bar / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: When Michelle responds to Nick's flirting/sexual harassment by propositioning him there and then. Establishes her character as someone who refuses to be intimidated, and does not necessarily play by the rules.
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Raising the Bar / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Raising the Bar / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Many of the cases are shown from both the prosecution and defense perspectives, with both sides having a point.
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Raising the Bar / int_9e1f8fde	type	Good Lawyers, Good Clients
Raising the Bar / int_9e1f8fde	comment	Good Lawyers, Good Clients: Averted. Jerry has to defend a child-rapist at one point.
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Raising the Bar / int_b327e120	type	Courtroom Antic
Raising the Bar / int_b327e120	comment	Courtroom Antic: Plenty of them, done by both sides. The judges get in on the action with antics of their own (though they're largely safe-in most states, getting a judge removed from the bench is almost insurmountably difficult, even in cases of flagrant and clear malfeasance. Judges in general tend to be known as quirky at best and tyrannical at worst).
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Raising the Bar / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Raising the Bar / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Michelle stoops to some pretty low tactics to win, including getting a key defense witness deported and not informing the defense about the death of a complainant and key witness before offering a deal. Her boss Balco himself comes across like this at times.
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Raising the Bar / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Raising the Bar / int_dfb71617	comment	In her very first episode, Jerry and the viewers get to check her out walking away down the corridor.
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Raising the Bar / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Raising the Bar / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Fabricating evidence, lying to the jury, keeping Jerry from his client...Detective Porter is the epitome of one.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Raising the Bar	hasFeature	Beat Bag / int_137d9b24
Raising the Bar	hasFeature	Big Applesauce / int_137d9b24
Raising the Bar	hasFeature	Black Boss Lady / int_137d9b24
Raising the Bar	hasFeature	Good Lawyers, Good Clients / int_137d9b24
Raising the Bar	hasFeature	Green-Eyed Epiphany / int_137d9b24
Raising the Bar	hasFeature	Handsome Lech / int_137d9b24
Raising the Bar	hasFeature	Hello, Attorney! / int_137d9b24
Raising the Bar	hasFeature	Mistaken for Evidence / int_137d9b24
Raising the Bar	hasFeature	Non-Idle Rich / int_137d9b24
Raising the Bar	hasFeature	Preppy Name / int_137d9b24
Raising the Bar	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Money! / int_137d9b24
Raising the Bar	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_137d9b24

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