Nearly thirty years after it became a big-screen movie starring Matt Damon, John Grisham’s courtroom thriller The Rainmaker is getting the TV series treatment, courtesy of USA. But did it acquit itself well?

After getting out of the scripted TV business in 2021 for reality TV and sports coverage, USA Network is returning to air scripted originals with the legal drama “The Rainmaker."

The series is based on Grisham’s novel of the same name, and stars John Slattery, Milo Callaghan, and Madison Iseman. A star-studded cast like this one doesn’t come to USA Network every day. Milo Callaghan,