Nearly thirty years after it became a big-screen movie starring Matt Damon, John Grisham’s courtroom thriller The Rainmaker is getting the TV series treatment, courtesy of USA. But did it acquit itself well?

You could do much worse than re-adapting a best-selling novel whose critiques of predatory health insurance suits have only grown more relevant since it was published. Back in 1997, John Grisham’s best-selling legal thriller The Rainmaker was previously made into a well-received (if somewhat underrated) Francis Ford Coppola film starring Matt Damon.

After getting out of the scripted TV business in 2021 for reality TV and sports coverage, USA Network is returning to air scripted originals with the legal drama “The Rainmaker."