The Kings of Legal Procedurals are Attempting to Tackle Tech with ‘Cupertino’ (Pun Intended)

Robert King and Michelle King know how to make good television. The husband and wife duo are the masterminds behind The Good Wife, one of the best dramas of its era, The Good Fight, one of the best political satires of the Trump era, Elsbeth, a quirky procedural on CBS that is mostly a vehicle for Carrie Preston to flex, and Evil, a Catholic take on the X-Files that is one of the most riveting shows I have ever watched. They have the credentials and the credit. And since then they announced that their next project would reunite them with Mike Coulter, who gave an absolutely stellar performance as Father David Acosta in Evil, as a lawyer fighting giant tech companies, it has been one of my most anticipated series of 2026. Lemme get my boilerplate out of the way now. Generative AI is blight. Giant corporations are actively evil. We can and should imagine a better world than the current one. Much like COVID before it, generative AI is one of the time markers of modern televisions. Every Law & Order has an episode with some chatbot has “gone rogue.” There’s a whole subplot in The Pitt season 2 about talk to text transcription. Even Abbott Elementary has had to crack jokes about its prevalence everywhere. My escapist media is a lot less escapist these day, because the world has shifted and tech companies have managed to make every facet of modern society worse. Enter Cupertino. Mike Coulter is Michael Price, hotshot lawyer for start ups. Michael Price has been fired for cause …