She is a brillant judge and is great at giving out fair judgement but when she is dating or getting engage or worst worrying about losing her brother or her mom to people they are getting engage to, she is nuts.
sharetotally agree. Nuts and selfish and irrational. I really don't like her character at all. But I watch because I love everyone else.
shareI thought Kyle was the best character added to the show.
shareKyle was the best character! I will sit thru all episodes over and over because of him! Self deprecating and trying to be a better human being..plus funny! I hated to see him leave! I can't see why he had to be written out just because Dan Futterman decided to return!
shareI love the show but can't stand Amy. I enjoyed everyone else but she annoyed the hell out of me. Is it ok to not like the main character on a show? I didn't like Dr.Quinn either but loved the rest of the cast.
shareI love the show but can't stand Amy.
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I think your definition of "crazy" might be a little off.
For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco
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Oh, I totally hated Vincent. He's a pathetic cry-baby "starving artist" wanker. He whined that his momma didn't put him in gifted school and he used it as an excuse that it stunted him. He whined because his momma didn't take his writing as a serious job. He even whined when his father chose not to go to medical school Like that somehow held Vincent himself back. Pathetic wanker.
shareI think that's the whole point of the show. Amy is brilliant at managing other people lives, when she is detached, and logical; she reads people with remarkable clarity, and is able to use everything she learned in seven years of higher education at some of the best schools, and many years as a practicing attorney.
When it comes to managing her own life, she leads with her emotions, and often makes a mess of it.
The juxtaposition of the two is where the drama of the show comes from.
That makes a lot of senses now, and I guess (you are right) the plot of the story how one woman fix other people's lives but she can't manage her own.
shareI agree she was a total Beeoch but I liked the show for the other characters like a previous poster stated. She ALWAYS found the kids to be guilty, and at fault and sent them away to be punished. She never gave any of those children a break or a fair chance and realized there were MANY victims in front of her and sent them home where they had already been punished enough but noooooooo, she HAD to send them away to juvie detention until they were adults instead. I don't think she was a fair judge at all and if it were me, I would have asked for my clients cases to be reassigned to another judge if mine had gotten stuck with HER as a judge.
by solesister "get thee to a nunnery!"
Interesting that no one has answered this one, I thought she was fair and often helped the children, did not at all think they were always guilty, only when they were.
I never felt dislike for her though she messed up her relationships.
I've only just seen this thread and I'll answer this last comment.
I disagree. I'm quite sure there were times where Amy ruled that the environment the child had been in had led to their wrong-doing and even though she was removing them and sending them elsewhere, it was to give them the chance they needed, which she didn't believe they'd get in their own homes. Don't ask for specific examples because it keeps being shown out of sequence over here and I haven't a clue what season things are from.
One episode I do remember clearly was the one where she was going to send a boy away (for 2 years?) because he'd shot his younger sibling with a gun and was showing no remorse. The boy complains that the sentence isn't long enough and finally breaks down and cries. He can't forgive himself and was wanting a harder punishment.
And then there's the episode where a girl's wrongdoing led to her friend being killed in a car accident, I think it was. I think the girl in court had been driving underage and the other girl gets killed. The girl in court seems to find the whole thing amusing, until she finally cracks and starts ranting at everyone that she knows exactly what she's done and she has to live with it for the rest of her life.
My problem with the show isn't how Amy handles her cases but the way she is so dramatic and so clingy to her family and friends, like she needs to hold on to them with such silly notions. In the episode Blast from the past, she was mad at Bruce for not fighting against the charges against him and Amy then she asked him to fight cause she "needs" him. Then she is upset that Vincent chose to move to LA with his cancer girlfriend. She was pissed that her mother was dating again twice once with rich guy and again with the landscape designer. She also didn't like that her daughter chose to cut her hair and change herself. Seems like nothing that happens to Amy in her life makes her happy.
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