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‘Reasonable Doubt’ review: A Shonda Rhimes-esque legal drama that does Rhimes’ style even better

Emayatzy Corinealdi, left, as Jax and Angela Grovey as her assistant in "Reasonable Doubt."

A legal drama with plenty of soapy intrigue, “Reasonable Doubt” on Hulu stars Emayatzy Corinealdi as Jax Stewart, a glamorous Los Angeles attorney to the rich and powerful. At work? She’s on point. At home? Well, things are considerably messier.

Shonda Rhimes didn’t invent this formula, but she perfected it — notably with shows like “Scandal” and “How to Get Away with Murder” — proving there’s a sizable TV audience looking for complicated portrayals of Black women as antiheroes: Super-accomplished in public, frequently guided by

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