Where did Justice go?
By fred | December 24, 2006
It’s a well known fact, there’s no justice, especially not in the world of Television! And the latest example of this is what happened to the new show Justice.
While Shark got a full season order, FOX’s new drama filled with lawyers, Justice, has had quite a hard time. It got moved around on schedule, took out the air for a bit, before coming back in December, and it is now once again off the air. And no word on when it’ll come back, if it even ever does.
Yet despite all that BS Justice is actually a very good show. Maybe it took a while to get there, and get people to like & watch the show, but it got there. All we need now is FOX to bring it back on!
 Here’s how it started. Before it was on, Justice had lots of very good things for it. It’s a Jerry Bruckheimer show for starter. We all know he’s involved in some very good shows, and he knows how to make things work. Could also means Justice would look like a “CSI for lawyers�, which he kinda does in a way – they work in big places, have all the latest high-tech things & tricks they could ever need, etc – but it doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
Another big thing, a very interesting one that would separate Justice from any other traditional shows, is that in the end we get to see what really happened. After we spent a full episode seeing people lying or hiding things, not always telling the truth, or not the full truth, people looking for evidence, trying to find out how to win their case, then we would see what really happens.
This opened up a lot of very interesting possibilities : Would they win and set free a killer? Would they be unsuccessful to defend an innocent men wrongly accused ?
Then, we got to see the pilot. And it was pretty good. Ok they win. And he didn’t do it. So it was all good. But it’s only a first. Then other episodes followed, and things got a bit “scary�…
First, they always won. And their client were always innocents. So much for all the expectations this nice twist at the end of each episodes had grown on us, it was always the same old thing as in every other episode of every other show.
And second, the most obvious thing when you watched the episodes : they’re all the same. I mean every episode was made according to the very same formula over & over again. But not just it starts with “getting a new client/case�, then “working our way to the trial�, then the “trial/jury decision�. No. Worst. They were basically the same episode, only changes were the name of the client, the way it supposedly killed the victim, who the victim was to him, and what “big show� the lawyers would put up during trial.
But if you’d given Justice a chance, and watch more than a couple of episodes before giving up – and God you should do so. I mean, you ask the networks to give shows a chance and not put them off the air after only a few episodes, the only least one could do is to give that same chance to the shows yourself, and watch more than three episodes before stopping watching.
