All Rise is the FIRST show to have all their actors wear face shields and masks! 😷

Tat show is so fucking pious. And all the lectures.

What the fuck is this? The mask thing has gone way too far. Shit doesn't even do anything, it's for show. Jesus.

Turmptard @ r2 and blocked person @ r1.

Anyway, I love this show even though it's a basic courtroom show. Love the lead actress. Love the supporting cast.

They actually finished their season last year with the last few episodes were done Zoom style. So they're going for realism.

Covid is real. Just because you're in denial doesn't mean we're going to indulge your self-defeating fantasy. And it's happening right now. How unrealistic would it be for any show set in contemporary times not to address it? Even if it was to have some anti-masker as a character. And then we could watch that character die. Or eat Trump shit if it's a show about cooking.

R3 It is a lecturing pile of shit with zero honesty or reality.

I've been watching this show over here in the UK and I absolutely love it. I think Simone Missick is fantastic. Wilson Bethel and J Alex Bronson are so hot. The female cast have strong characters.

The storylines are very strong and smart.

It's a hit from me.

Does this show have any gays? If not I'm not interested.

I started watching it because Wilson Bethel is in it. He doesn't get to spend nearly enough time with his shirt off, so I came to notice he's quite a fine actor. And I like everyone else in the show, too. These are characters I like to come back to. It's one of three shows I actually look forward to every week, the others being Blue Bloods and Chicago Med. Yeah, it can be preachy, but I'm not minding.

I'd have thought the title was pretty plagiaristic, after To Kill a Mockingbird had All Rise on its posters up and down Broadway.

Yes, I know it's something they always say in court, but it had an extra meaning in Mockingbird and none of the five million court procedurals thought of it before.

Can't they just digitally remove the masks like how they took out Gary Sinise's legs in Forrest Gump?

I watched [what's up of] the newest season of Law & Order SVU just to see the way they'd tackle the mask issue and it was infuriating. They played lip service to the fact that covid existed by SOME actors occasionally wearing masks but only as they were entering the scene and they'd take the mask off prior to getting real close to another actor to talk to them, which is literally the exact opposite purpose of wearing a mask. Like they'd be wearing a mask and then get into an elevator with someone and take their mask off before getting right in their face and flapping their germy gums at 'em. I understand that it's harder to act and speak when wearing a mask but the fact that they were so improperly and inconsistently masked was loads more distracting than if they'd just fully committed to it.

I’ve had the same experience watching SVU as you R10. There is no rhyme or reason to their mask use.

There was another show I watched (I’m almost positive it was All Rise) where 4 characters stood across from each other, two on each side. They all had on masks, then walked and met in the middle, removed their masks and talked in each others faces.

R11 Exactly. It's the way I imagine someone would have written a show that took place during the covid pandemic without having actually lived through it. Like, I am seriously concerned for the safety of these writers if that's actually the way they think masks work.

Some of the best films ever made were made during World War 2, and they didn't even reference current events at the time.

People need escapism...not to be reminded of the sad state of the world all the goddamn time.

If the show takes place on 2021, the actors need to wear mask. It is that simple. Would a show that takes place in 2020 or 2021 have people driving pintos? Wearing bell bottoms? They don’t need to make a show and dance, but it isn’t realistic to not have them wearing mask.

I would imagine that the production company's insurance will mandate that actors wear PPE on set too.

All Rise is probably one the most underrated show on right now.

[quote] If the show takes place on 2021, the actors need to wear mask. It is that simple. Would a show that takes place in 2020 or 2021 have people driving pintos? Wearing bell bottoms? They don’t need to make a show and dance, but it isn’t realistic to not have them wearing mask.

But some shows and movies that take place in 2020 and 2021 didn’t have people wear masks because they were filmed in prior to COVID. So does that mean the people in those shows are living in a different dimension where COVID doesn’t exist, maybe like on Earth 2? It’s weird to have them take place in the spring and summer of 2020 and have the characters jet setting across the globe on vacations or having the characters gather for a regular Thanksgiving and Christmas with tons of people as if COVID didn’t exist. Just look at all the Hallmark Christmas movies that are supposed to take place in 2020. The characters even mention it’s 2020 yet they’re in a crowded restaurant or squeezing to get into a subway train filled with people. Doesn’t make sense.

I don’t want to see a show where they’re wearing masks. If I can’t turn to TV for escapism, I’ll look somewhere else. I’m not interested in “realism.” Sorry.

R18 I think that's gonna be every more difficult to produce TV programs like that. Over here in the UK productions have tended to be around two actors, socially distanced, acting their scene. Looks very weird.

Can’t they just quarantine the actors and test them?

Is "All Rise" done in El Lay? "Bull" actors wear masks, they shoot at Steiner Studiosat the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Dunno where it's filmed.

I hate masks being worn on shows. I watch tv to forget about all this shit,not be reminded of it constantly .

A black woman judge with finishing school voice and bumper sticker dialogue. How innovative. Come a long way, baby (not... black female judges checked all the casting boxes on soaps starting in the '80s).

When I think of a black judge I always think of Legally Blonde!

I won’t watch anything if they’re wearing masks. I can see that at the grocery store.

I think we're gonna see more mainstream media masks tbh.

this pandemic must be so hard for the celebs. Just last week I heard george clooney was having to sew his children some clothes

I'm not kidding

It seems like most of the CBS procedurals are using masks.

That's interesting. I wonder if that's an insurance stipulation or corporate policy?

New episode this Monday, 2/8/21. Finally!

If Wilson Bethel puts on a mask but sheds the rest of his clothes, all will indeed rise.

R32 Absolutely!

I see that the series is coming to an end in the next couple of weeks.

It's a shame, because I've really been enjoying the characters, the writing and acting has been excellent and the production has been enpointe too.

The characters on Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 also have been wearing masks, although it seems to be abating, and I find it more of a distraction than a comfort

I will miss The Wilson Bethel Program. I liked the other characters, too, and the storytelling, but make no mistake, for me it's always been The Wilson Bethel Program.

R36 He has been super hot in it. I follow the programme's social media and it does look like they've been having a lot of fun behind the scenes. Wilson particularly so. He is very hot.

Season finale is on tonight.

It's such a shame as it's a great little programme.

Not if it's set during the pandemic. That's a slice of life that's real. it could be interesting to see stories about how people handled it or didn't. Funny stories and serious stories.

True.

Oprah Winfrey network currently in talks of trying to bring All Rise back.

R41 That's fantastic news! I do wish it would be shown over here in the UK. I really love the series.

OWN has now picked up the show for a 20 episode 3rd season.

I was an extra on this show once and the director for the episode was truly terrifying. Never been on a set so full of fear before. He threw a glass against a food truck and it shattered all over the place.

Remember the depression?

No one wanted to see it onscreen.

R43 OWN are gonna run the show? That's fantastic!

So long as we see more naked Wilson Bethel, I'm here for it!

The new episodes are streaming now. They've aired 9.

You can purchase season 3 on Amazon Prime for $9.99 if you don't have OWN.

That's interesting.

I believe that season 3 resumes again soon on OWN. I can't wait to see more of Wilson Bethel. Yum!