David E. Kelley has as many hits now as he had in the 1990s, but his voice feels less distinctive
https://slate.com/culture/2022/05/lincoln-lawyer-david-e-kelley-anatomy-scandal-netflix.html
Thanks to The Practice, Ally McBeal, Picket Fences, Boston Public and Chicago Hope, Kelley "was a star showrunner in an era where few people paid attention to who made their favorite shows," says Sam Adams, "and his recent track record, which includes Big Little Lies and The Undoing, is a strong one as well. So why has the second coming of David E. Kelley been such a quiet one?" Adams adds: "To judge from recent profiles (now confined to industry trades rather than glossy magazines), Kelley’s industrious habits haven’t changed, and the streaming wars seem to only be encouraging his habit. In addition to his three Netflix shows, Kelley is also writing new crime dramas for Peacock, HBO Max, and Apple TV+. As I was writing this, news also broke that Kelley’s other other show with Nicole Kidman, Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers, is headed for a second season, and after I filed, his ABC crime drama Big Sky was renewed for a third. The awards don’t seem to have dried up yet either: He won his first Emmy in almost 20 years for the first season of Big Little Lies, albeit as the show’s executive producer and not its writer. But watch The Lincoln Lawyer and you’ll hunt in vain for a hint of a distinctive personality. The closest the show comes to making you wonder who wrote this? is when its main character takes a call and his phone IDs the caller as 'Second Wife'—and in this case the question is not an admiring one."