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Damages on FX

2007, TV Show

Seasons:

1
- Because I Know Patty (Original Airdate Oct 23, 2007)
- There’s No 'We' Anymore (Original Airdate Oct 16, 2007)
- I Hate These People (Original Airdate Oct 9, 2007)
- Sort of Like a Family (Original Airdate Oct 2, 2007)
- Do You Regret What We Did? (Original Airdate Sep 25, 2007)
- Blame the Victim (Original Airdate Sep 18, 2007)
- We Are Not Animals (Original Airdate Sep 11, 2007)
- She Spat at Me (Original Airdate Sep 4, 2007)
- A Regular Earl Anthony (Original Airdate Aug 21, 2007)
- Tastes Like a Ho Ho (Original Airdate Aug 14, 2007)
- And My Paralyzing Fear of Death (Original Airdate Aug 7, 2007)
- Jesus, Mary and Joe Cocker (Original Airdate Jul 31, 2007)
- Pilot Episode (Original Airdate Jul 24, 2007)
2
- Trust Me (Original Airdate Apr 1, 2009)
- Look What I Dug Up This Time (Original Airdate Mar 25, 2009)
- London, Of Course (Original Airdate Mar 18, 2009)
- Uh Oh, Out Come the Skeletons (Original Airdate Mar 11, 2009)
- You Got Your Prom Date Pregnant (Original Airdate Mar 4, 2009)
- They Had to Tweeze That Out of My Kidney (Original Airdate Feb 25, 2009)
- New York Sucks (Original Airdate Feb 18, 2009)
- A Pretty Girl in a Leotard (Original Airdate Feb 11, 2009)
- I Agree, It Wasn't Funny (Original Airdate Feb 4, 2009)
- Hey! Mr. Pibb (Original Airdate Jan 28, 2009)
- I Knew Your Pig (Original Airdate Jan 21, 2009)
- Burn It, Shred It, I Don't Care (Original Airdate Jan 14, 2009)
- I Lied, Too (Original Airdate Jan 7, 2009)
3
- Damages (Original Airdate Jan 3, 2009)
- Damages (Original Airdate Jan 2, 2009)
- Damages Marathon (Original Airdate Aug 9, 2008)
- Damages Marathon (Original Airdate Oct 20, 2007)
- Damages Marathon (Original Airdate Sep 3, 2007)
- Pilot Episode (Original Airdate Jul 24, 2007)

Damages Episode: "Pilot Episode"

Season 1, Episode 1

Episode Synopsis: In the series opener, take-no-prisoners Manhattan litigator Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) hires law-school grad Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) to work on a civil case against businessman Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson), a corporate buccaneer who sold his company out from under his workers. But it turns out that Ellen has an unwitting tie to Frobisher: Her best friend is a chef who's being bankrolled by him. Shayes: Tate Donovan. Katie: Anastasia Griffith. David: Noah Bean. Original Air Date: Jul 24, 2007

Pilot (and What a Pilot It Was!)

Jul 25, 2007 03:15 PM ET
by Matt Mitovich

FX's Damages, which premiered on Tuesday, is simply too good a show not to have a "watercooler" blog, so I am stepping up to the plate and authoring one. In exchange, you will give me some leeway if each week's recap doesn't get posted until, say, 8 am the morning after. (Recapping 10 o'clockers is tough for a tired father of 4-year-old twins!)As I said in the title, what a pilot episode, right?This is not a courtroom drama.This is not a legal drama.This is not a procedural.What this is — and Michael Nouri (who plays Glenn Close's hubby) first spun it this way when I saw him at a function last month — is a psychological thriller. And a darn good one.I've already screened Episode 2, so I must be careful here not to cover too much ground. But I love the setup, how up-and-coming legal eagle Ellen is seen fleeing the grisly scene of god-knows-what, and then we proceed to flash forward and back and forward and back, piecing together — throughout the entire first season, mi... read more