"As a Pilot Director, You Must Load the Toolbox for All the Directors that Come After You": Director Michael Robin on All Rise

The courtroom drama has been a staple of network television since Perry Mason and never really gone away, which makes the CBS series All Rise's achievement of breathing new life into the genre truly impressive and exciting. An ensemble drama anchored by Simone Missick as a young judge out to challenge conventional wisdom, All Rise deftly explores complex ethical questions relating to race, class, gender and power via a sprawling examination of the lawyers, judges, clerks, cops, and defendants wh...