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For Life - Season 1
In an attempt to achieve justice, Aaron Wallace, a young smart man, who has been sentenced to life in prison for the false accusation, so he makes his mind to become a lawyer, in order to defend other innocents people, as he miss his family and dream of having his freedom.
5 November 1962, California, USA
April 15, 1994 in Richmond, Virginia, USA
28 January 1967, USA
February 11, 2020
The most interesting thing, though, in both dramatic and thematic terms, is Wallace's willingness to bend and break the rules to advance his agenda - from his choices of which inmates' causes to adopt, to lying, to outright fabrication of evidence.
February 11, 2020
Whatever measure of well-meaning it may have, it's awfully dull.
February 10, 2020
But Wallace isn't willing to bide his time, and For Life gains dramatic urgency from Pinnock's powerful portrayal of an impatient man not above bending the rules when the odds are stacked so heavily against him.
February 11, 2020
There's a genuinely intriguing story at the heart of For Life, ABC's new legal procedural. But it's buried under a fair amount of frenetic drama that tends to obscure its most interesting ideas.
February 06, 2020
Safiya walks a thin line between supporting Aaron and cautioning him from taking on the prosecutor in the media. Pinnock's performance gives a palpable, urgent quality to Aaron's intensity.
February 11, 2020
Knowing how far he's willing to go to get the justice he deserves is surprising when it's injected into the bones of what otherwise might be a standard drama.
January 23, 2020
Though some of the direction is overdone... [Nicholas] Pinnock's brooding intensity establishes him as a leading man to watch.
