| "Get Me a Lawyer" | |
|---|---|
| Damages episode | |
| Ellen (right) runs through Manhattan, bloody and half-naked. | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Allen Coulter |
 · Legal drama Damages ran for five seasons between 2007 and 2012, starring Glenn Close as the ruthless and cunning Patty Hewes, who wasn’t above breaking the law herself to get what she wanted.. Hollywood star Close was by far the best thing about Damages, picking up two Emmy awards and two Golden Globes for her portrayal of the hard-hearted lawyer, though she …
Patricia C. Hewes or simply Patty is a renowned high-stakes litigator. Being the head of her own law firm, named Hewes and Associates she has a reputation as a ruthless and brilliant lawyer. She is known for her unorthodox ways of practicing law, frequent manipulations and a sharp sense for justice. Her abusive upbringing had conceived hatred towards bullies in Patty, that …
 · The woman is Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne), a promising up-and-coming lawyer who has just graduated and receives an offer from Patty's firm, Hewes & Associates. After two interviews, she is hired, and Patty's right-hand man Tom Shayes (Tate Donovan) introduces her to their newest case: they are going after Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson), a businessman …
 · Damages – Season 1, Episode 1: “Get Me a Lawyer”. Posted on October 15, 2010 by savitrideodat. Damages premiered July 24, 2007, I never heard or seen the show on television. I started watching the first episode, which featured the main characters; litigation lawyer Patty Hewes (Glenn Close,) her assistant Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) and the law firm Hewes & …
Patty Hewes, a mix of evil, misunderstanding and conflict, has terrorized Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) and viewers for years, yet you can't help but feel sympathy for the character. And when the series ends, you won't be able to shake that feeling. This character is so bad, she's pure entertainment. And that's why Patty Hewes is so special.
Hewes or simply Patty is a renowned high-stakes litigator. Being the head of her own law firm, named Hewes and Associates she has a reputation as a ruthless and brilliant lawyer. She is known for her unorthodox ways of practicing law, frequent manipulations and a sharp sense for justice.
Patricia "Patty" C. Hewes is a fictional character on the American legal thriller Damages, portrayed by Glenn Close. Being described as "ruthless", "master manipulator" and "brilliant", Patty is a high-stakes litigator managing her own law firm called Hewes & Associates.
Back in July 2010, DirecTV rescued Damages from being cancelled after FX announced that they wouldn't be airing it any longer. The Glenn Close series was renewed for two seasons of 10 episodes each and at that time we suspected that would be the end of the show.
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In the series finale, Ellen gives up being a lawyer after learning that she is pregnant and becomes a happy wife and mother. Patty enters a shop where Ellen and her daughter are happily looking at goodies. Ellen sees Patty but ignores her....Ellen ParsonsChildrenGirl (unnamed)9 more rows
Phil Grey was Patty Hewes' husband and Michael's male-guardian. Grey often travels and works in finance. Throughout the series, the audience discovers that Grey often has sexual relations with women during his travels.
Season 1 is based on the 2001 Enron scandal. Season 2 was based on the 2001 California Energy Crisis. Season 3 was inspired by the 2009 Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme.
named Arthur Frobisher, who is being sued by his former employees for bilking them of their life savings, reinforces his Enron-era scoundrel credentials by cheating on his wife, snorting cocaine and putting out a contract on the life of a young woman whose only crime was having accidentally glimpsed him getting into a ...
Damages is possibly the best ever thriller series - I like the way it does not spoon feed the viewer and over explain the story. The viewer cannot look away from the screen or an important plot thread will be lost. TV at its best - I loved the Wire and Breaking Bad was awesome but Damages is supreme story telling.
Ellen correctly deduces that Purcell is father of Patty's son Michael. Patty asks Purcell to undergo a polygraph test after his wife's murder investigation reveals a case of domestic violence. She has Purcell arrested in order to force him to retain her as his lawyer.
We'll find out when the DirecTV drama returns for its fifth and final season. "We get to meet Patty Hewes' father," executive producer Todd A. Kessler tells TV Guide Magazine exclusively. "They have many scenes together, and we'll have a deeper understanding of how she was formed into who she is."
Jill Burnham was the girlfriend of Michael Hewes. She is the biological mother of Catherine Hewes.
In the series finale, Patty was left all alone—her son murdered, Ellen having beat her once and for all. The episode's final scene was a flash-forward to “a few years from now.” Patty spots Ellen and her young daughter at a drug store then rushes back to her car.
Damages (TV series)DamagesDistributorSony Pictures TelevisionReleaseOriginal networkFX (2007–10) Audience Network (2011–12)Original releaseJuly 24, 2007 – September 12, 201214 more rows
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10Damages - Season 5 / Number of episodes
In Series 5, Patty and Ellen's close relationship comes to a close, with Ellen splitting off to create Ellen Parsons & Associates. Whilst competing with her son, Michael Hewes, in a custody battle for his daughter (Patty's grand-daughter), Ellen steps up as a witness, which places Patty under pressure due to their close relationship ...
It emerges that Patty still has her law firm in New York, which shows that Patty did not become an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court as previously considered, instead staying in her practice. Ellen, on the other hand, has left the legal firm, dedicating her life to her family.
The relationship explored in greatest detail is the one between Hewes and Ellen Parsons, her protégée. She hires Ellen in order to get to a crucial witness in her case against Arthur Frobisher, but soon realizes Ellen's potential and begins to perceive her as the daughter she never had.
Ellen, on the other hand, has left the legal firm, dedicating her life to her family. Delusionally, Patty imagines Ellen thanking her for all the good she has done for her. The truth however is uglier than it seems, and Ellen deliberately ignores Patty.
In later years, Patty and Ellen meet inadvertently in a shop with Ellen's daughter. It emerges that Patty still has her law firm in New York, which shows that Patty did not become an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court as previously considered, instead staying in her practice.
Hot-shot, high-stakes, New York City attorney Patty Hewes hires a new associate, the bright, ambitious, but somewhat naive Ellen Parsons, to help her as she tries to ruin billionaire Arthur Frobisher.
During the dirt bike rider scene, the shadow of the filming crew can be seen on the ground.
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As “Damages” signs off for good — yes, it’s still on, it moved to DirecTV after Season 3 on FX — I find myself thinking about what the show has done for the television landscape. And I come back to one central figure: Patty Hewes. TV will never see another character like Patty Hewes, who has been played expertly by Glenn Close for five seasons.
Patty Hewes isn’t the only legacy “Damages” leaves behind. The series gave viewers the very tense — and depending on who you ask, maybe romantic — relationship between Patty and Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne).
Ellen Parsons is in a conference with Hollis Nye 's law firm offering her a job at $150,000 a year. She tells that she was called by Hewes and Associates for a job and took the interview, denying Nye’s job offer.
This first episode starts off with Ellen Parsons coming franticly out of an elevator, covered in blood. She’s picked up by the NYPD who don’t know much about her, except that she had a business card for a lawyer (Hollis Nyes) on her.
For her part, Patty wanted Katie to be a witness in her case against Frobisher. In order to convince Katie to turn against her investor, she had Uncle Pete break into Katie's apartment and kill her dog, knowing that Katie would assume Frobisher was behind the attack.
In Damages Season 4, Ellen struck out on her own and attempted to try a case against High Star , a security firm contracted by the military whose employ left her old friend Chris Sanchez suffering from PTSD.
The series began with Patty hiring young lawyer Ellen Parsons for the sole purpose of getting close to her fiancé's sister Katie, and this betrayal set the precedent for much of Patty's behavior over the show's five seasons.
Both she and Ellen wanted to face off in court, so they agreed that Patty would give false evidence to Rachel. Just as Patty had hoped, Rachel changed her mind and refused the settlement from McClaren, now believing (to Patty's glee) that justice could be better delivered in trial. Lying to your client for your own gain (and swindling them out of a settlement) is practically the definition of malpractice, but still not one of Patty's worst offenses.
Just as Patty had hoped, Rachel changed her mind and refused the settlement from McClaren, now believing (to Patty's glee) that justice could be better delivered in trial.
One of Patty's greatest mistakes, and certainly among her greatest regrets, was the way she alienated her son, Michael, over the course of several seasons. Although she didn't believe he was a fit father to his own child, she should have understood that Michael was understandably bitter over her betrayal of his partner Jill.
When Patty realized she had been double-crossed, she took ruthless action and had Jill arrested for statutory rape. Just as she wanted, Patty gained custody of her granddaughter, but at a horrible cost: Jill was incarcerated for an unknown amount of time, Patty's granddaughter was torn from her mother, and Michael's burgeoning family was destroyed. Although it wasn't murder, it was definitely reprehensible.