Newton's Law

2017

Newton's Law

7.2 | en | Drama

With her low-flying solicitor's practice incinerated by a disgruntled client, her marriage collapsing and motherhood fast losing its charm, Josephine Newton's old uni friend and not-so secret admirer, Lewis Hughes, persuades her to resume her briefly glorious career at the Bar. As she rises to the challenge, though, trading the benefits of her brilliant mind for a berth in the lofty glamour of Knox Chambers, Josephine realises it's not so easy to leave her entourage behind.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP8 Equal & Opposite Forces

Mar. 30,2017

The upstairs and downstairs teams join forces in a class action, taking on a pharmaceutical company that tried to cover up the side effects resulting from their drug trials.

EP7 Terminal Velocity

Mar. 23,2017

As Josephine unexpectedly re-unites with a former client, Lewis' defence of a privileged thief unearths a troubling link between the boy and her sister, Rose.

EP6 The Uncertainty Principle

Mar. 16,2017

Josephine's high profile asylum seeker kidnapping case is further complicated when Callum intervenes, landing Josephine's witness, and himself, in hot water.

EP5 Newton's Law Of Cooking

Mar. 09,2017

Josephine is surprised that Whitley wants her to represent him in a property dispute, and the downstairs team make their own discoveries in what is ostensibly a simple assault case.

EP4 Uniform Motion

Mar. 02,2017

Josephine worries she’s crossed over to the dark side when representing a furniture conglomerate, but manages to assist the underdog in a downstairs case.

EP3 Control Theory

Feb. 23,2017

Josephine and Lewis inherit a murder trial where all the evidence points to their client being guilty, while Johnny and Skye are reluctantly thrown together to help defend Skye’s father from an assault charge.

EP2 The Butterfly Effect

Feb. 16,2017

Josephine takes the lead in a gender dysphoria case while, downstairs, Helena defends Lydia against a criminal damage charge.

EP1 External Forces

Feb. 09,2017

When her suburban solicitor's office is incinerated by a disgruntled client, Josephine Newton resumes her briefly glorious career at the Bar.

7.2 | en | Drama | More Info

Released: 2017-02-09 | Released Producted By: Every Cloud Productions , Country: Australia Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/newton-s-law

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Cast

Claudia Karvan , Toby Schmitz , Brett Tucker

Director

Anna Molyneaux

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Trailers

Cast

Claudia Karvan

as Josephine Newton

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Toby Schmitz

as Lewis Hughes

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Brett Tucker

as Callum Docker

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Reviews

Orlando Somera Something's going on here. First Rake and now Newton's Law. These Aussies have a flair for engaging adult entertainment that I don't see stateside. Rake may be my all time best find, but this new legal comedy, led by one of the most charismatic women I've ever seen, is at least as rewarding. The comedy revolves around a barrister who has one unpredictable teenage daughter, who is separated from her environmentalist husband and just getting back to working in a law office again. Thing is she's so winningly wise she manages to triumph when you would expect anyone to fail. After the first few episodes I was wondering why we can't produce women like this.If there's anything negative to say about the series it's that the cast have a strange sense of timing that's hard to describe but that's easy to become accustomed to. Our legal series seem a bit neurotic compared to this Aussie offering. I can't wait for the next season and I'm looking to find more of Karvan's work.

Rachel Lynch This show might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I thoroughly enjoy watching it every week.Written by the women who did 'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries', 'Newton's Law' is a charming, quirky show with plenty of heart. All the characters are well-meaning, the underdogs always win, any mistakes our heroes make are forgiven, and everything wraps up perfectly in the last 15 minutes. Sure, it's not the most realistic (or best written, if I'm honest) show on TV, but it's a whole lot of fun, and refreshingly angst-free. Not to mention, it manages to slip in a surprising number of important messages about gender equality, multiculturalism, and even gender dysphoria.Like I said, it's not for everyone. But I've got a soft spot for indulgent, fluffy, light entertainment; and 'Newton's Law' hits the spot.

bfmoore-97836 Probably expected this to be as gritty as Janet King or Crownies.The gorgeous Claudia was the attraction for me but her work in other shows is far stronger and convincing.She certainly had her work cut out in emulating the power,suspense and credibility of these predecessors. I don't know if ditz and law gel at this level, as comedy does in Rake and augustness in John Deed.Maybe now the premise is established it could fire up but at this stage the plots are hackneyed and humor,lame. Gee i wanted this to work as the menu of watchable television continues to dwindle to a set two course offering,hopefully another vehicle will come her way.

adam-703-808689 To be honest, I only watched 15 minutes of Episode One, but I was astounded by the number of levels on which this comedy-drama drove itself into a ditch and stayed there, writhing with wrongness. Scripting, characterisation, casting, direction, costume design, production design, art-direction, photography, colour, acting... all are a series of horrible mistakes wrought by people who seem to have no idea of drama. Really! It's like being a passenger in a car which heads the wrong way from the start of the journey; doesn't even try to find the right way, and keeps driving up dead-end streets, and doing u-turns in the hope that merciless quirkiness will amuse. I'm sure a lot of people worked very hard to make this, so please forgive my damnation, but...wow! Perhaps the drama suddenly found its way after the 15 minutes for which I viewed it, but it was not an auspicious quarter of an hour. It did occur to me that Newton's Law is a strategic move in the alleged plan for Michelle Guthrie to destroy the ABC.