Don't let anyone tell you Jerry Bruckheimer isn't educational. With this latest episode of Justice, I learned an important geography lesson: Orange County is not like L.A. The gist of it is that citizens of Orange County are conservative and don't trust anyone from Los Angeles. And, despite having Disneyland, they are no fun at all. Alden complains that she has to dress like her mother to get the jury to like her, Ron gets benched because people in L.A. County barely like him, to say nothing of the O.C., and Tom uses his down-home Nebraska charm to help win the case. Because Orange County is a lot like Nebraska. No, really, he said it. But Victor Garber gets perhaps the best line of the night when he neatly sums up the O.C. attitude: "It's Orange County. The airport is named for John Wayne, for God's sake. Man up."
And kudos to Justice for finally suprising me. For once, the way the crime played out was not telegraphed in the middle of the trial.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Tonight on Justice: A SoCal Geography Lesson
Friday, September 08, 2006
Justice: Lawyers! Solving Crimes!
I have now seen two episodes of Justice, and I have to say, the whole "we'll show you what really happened" hook would be a lot more effective if they wouldn't solve the case in the middle of the trial. In the pilot, the crime played out exactly the way they argued that it did in court. In Wednesday's episode, the crime unfolded almost exactly the way they argued that it did, except, of course, that (spoiler!) she was guilty, and also took the money. Which you could totally call, provided you had watched TV before. So for right now, the "what really happened" closer bores me, although it does lead me to wonder what will happen when the client is falsely convicted. How will they handle it?
On a related note: defense attorneys can solve crimes now too? And here I thought the list was only confined to detectives, prosecutors, FBI agents, crime scene investigators, profilers, medical examiners, the military, high-schoolers (now college freshmen), mathematicians, obsessive-compulsives, fake psychics, real psychics, magician's assistants, Crazy Vincent D'Onofrio, and meddling kids. Silly me.
