Synopsis

A family drama focused on three generations of women living together in Hartford, Connecticut. Amy Brenneman plays Amy Gray, who left New York City behind and now works as a family court judge. Karle Warren plays Lauren, Amy’s daughter; Tyne Daly is Maxine, Amy’s tough, opinionated mother.

Season 1 Episode 7 “An Impartial Bias”
Vincent accepts an English writing teaching position for the income, but doubts if it fits his vocation as an author. He wonders what made his dad – whom he lost very young- work in the insurance field, as brother Peter now does enthusiastically, despite their father’s acceptance for medical school. Maxine fights a deaf supervisor’s claim to end the guardianship of big brother Paul Dexter, who alas never learned sign language, over young Kevin, who refuses to learn any more after systematic peer abuse at school, neglected by DCS till then. Amy hears a claim by an old black grandmother for custody over her 2 year-old grandson Eryk, who is in foster care with the devoted white Chase couple, which adopted his older sister.