Fast-paced comedy about high-end contracts lawyer Helen Tudor-Fisk, who is forced to take a job at a shabby, suburban law firm following a humiliating marriage breakdown and a professional fall from grace.
Episode List
S1 • E1
Portrait of a Lady
When Helen Tudor-Fisk's life falls apart, she takes a job in a small suburban firm specializing in wills and probate, assuming that because the clients are dead she won't have to deal with people.
S1 • E2
Cremains of the Day
Helen mediates a case about division of cremains, between a bereaved daughter and and the new, much younger partner of her dead father. She also has an awkward family lunch at Dad and Viktor's house.
S1 • E3
Taken
Helen meets with a woman who is demanding power of attorney over her mother and attends her ex-husband William's writer's festival run by literary interlocutor, Lindy Baxter-Smythe.
S1 • E4
Dead Man Texting
The office is abuzz because their favourite temp Peggy is coming in to help out with a deceased estate. Helen doesn't understand what's so fun about Fun Peggy, but everyone else, including George, thinks she's a 'hoot'.
S1 • E5
Ladies in Black
Helen meets formidable opposing counsel Alice Pike, and stumbles upon Roz's passion project; an all-woman harmony group for funerals called The Sadrigals. Alice Pike makes a complaint to the board about Roz.
S1 • E6
Honour Thy Father
Gruber and Gruber is nominated for a Small Business Award and Helen consults with a man who believes he is the son of a famous newsreader. At Dad's house, Helen meets personal trainer, Blayden Tork.