Thursday, September 07, 2006

Justice: Guilty

Guilty.

JUSTICE (Wed 9/8c on FOX) feels like a redress of last summer's Jerry Bruckheimer project, THE JURY. A loud, mindless knockoff of Law & Order, minus the soul.

Like THE JURY, JUSTICE features no likeable characters, nor a moral center. Dr. House isn't a nice guy, but somehow we're on his side, pulling for him - because he's saving lives. The lawyers of JUSTICE don't care about their clients. All they care about is winning. And that makes them losers.

Mrs. Kemosabe is quick to point out that the sheer volume of forensics based TV shows and novels have armed potential viewers with a better understanding of the process than Bruckheimer.

The pilot featured a suspected murder that would have been revealed as an accidental death in the first ten minutes of BONES.

The characters in JUSTICE are burdened with so much exposition and have to over explain the details of things like jury research that very little character remains. They're just generic lawyers.

It seems odd to me that critics are labeling VANISHED as a show that feels like it was cut and pasted together. JUSTICE is the guilty party.

Time to cancel the season pass. I have more important things to do with my time. Like watching LOST.

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