After starring in the Emmy-winning, fan-favorite TV series Breaking Bad, any other show Bryan Cranston did would always be compared to it. And while that could definitely have fans excited to tune in, Cranston’s 2020 crime thriller Your Honor didn’t have the warmest reception, partly because of the high bar Breaking Bad had set. After all, while Your Honor was less of a crowd-pleaser than the five-season drama alongside Aaron Paul, the series was still compelling, full of twists, and packed with incredible performances.
After being picked up for a second season on Showtime, Your Honor came to an end in 2025 after the network canceled the show. But, despite the cancellation, the series has still earned a second wave of fans on Netflix since arriving on the platform on May 31, 2024. Per Netflix, however, Your Honor is getting ready to leave the streaming giant altogether, exiting the platform on May 31, 2026. With that said, there’s no better time than now for Netflix subscribers to stream the series.
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What Is ‘Your Honor’ About?
Based on the Israeli series Kvodo, Your Honor follows Cranston as Michael Desiato, a New Orleans judge who is forced to cover up a shocking crime when his teenage son Adam (Hunter Doohan) suffers an asthma attack while driving, gets into a car accident, and leaves the scene, allowing another boy to bleed out on the street. That boy, as it turns out, is the son of Jimmy Baxter (Michael Stuhlbarg), a local crime boss who vows to get to the bottom of what happened and exact revenge on the heartless driver who left his son to die alone. In an attempt to protect his family, Michael is then faced with an almost impossible task, putting his job on the line and leading to a web of deceit and cover-ups leading to more murders and even the wrongful conviction of a member of a local gang,
By Season 2 of the series, a loss close to Michael turns his life upside down. The season kicks off with him in prison as he’s approached by the powerful District Attorney Olivia Delmont (Rosie Perez). In their talk, they strike a deal. In order to protect his best friend and the new mayor of New Orleans, Charlie (Isiah Whitlock Jr.), Michael will help Olivia bring down the Baxter family, once and for all. Your Honor, created by Peter Moffat, also stars Lili Kay, Hope Davis, Carmen Ejogo, Jimi Stanton, Mark Margolis, Chet Hanks, Ciara Renee, Andre Ward-Hammond,Isiah Whitlock Jr., Tony Curran and Benjamin Flores Jr.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
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🍸James Bond
🏺Indiana Jones
🔧John McClane
🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
Your Partner Has Been Assigned Your Perfect Partner Is…
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Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Rambo
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
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James Bond
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
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Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
John McClane
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Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Ethan Hunt
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
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‘Your Honor’ Is a Worthwhile Watch Despite Mixed Reviews
Throughout its two-season run, Your Honor received mixed reviews. While Collider deemed the series a solid B, Your Honor scored a disappointing 49% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and 67% among the public. From the critics’ reviews, while the series is criticized for being unoriginal and inconsistent with its pacing, Your Honor still made for a captivating and enthralling watch. “It is hard to look away from this intense, brooding drama with a social conscience, and it lingers long after the credits roll,” one review wrote.
The beloved actor recently returned to streaming for Hulu’s ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ revival.
Plus, the performances from the star-studded cast alone make for a gripping watch. According to Emma Kiely in her review for Season 2 for Collider, Your Honor‘s biggest strength is the ensemble cast. “Michael Stuhlbarg is again, superb as the menacing and intimidating gangster,” she wrote. “Jimmy’s scenes with his wife, Gina (Davis), draw out Stuhlbarg’s best work as he gets to layer on the character he established in Season 1.” The same goes for the actresses in the show, who get their time to shine in Season 2. “Rosie Perez wears her smug grin with pride as the confident and manipulative lawyer, bringing some much-needed energy against Cranston’s misery,” the review continued. “Lilli Kay is given more to do too, as Fia becomes a more fateful character and her scenes with Cranston are the most tender of the entire show, offering a much-needed respite from the nail-biting intensity.”
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With all that said, if you’re a fan of Cranston or his work on Breaking Bad, then there’s no better time than now to watch his gripping crime series Your Honor. Cranston’s Michael and Walter White go through entirely different journeys, but they both make for bingeworthy and worthwhile TV. Plus, with a murder to bury, and another murder to solve, Your Honor is the type of show that grips you from the beginning to the very end.
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