That's what I'm bingeing these days. I loved "Boston Legal" so I thought I'd see the show that led to it.
It's....mostly terrible. No wonder it had low ratings, everybody got fired, and then they canceled it.
The characters are a bunch of crazy defense attorneys who fight hard and use all kinds of tricks to get the worst of humanity found not guilty. Even the prosecutors are horrible - only concerned about getting a guilty verdict and no concern whatsoever with actual justice. The main characters almost always win their cases, even when no jury in the universe would have found their client not guilty.
But being neither here nor there:
It's interesting how long the brainwashing has been going on and we (at least I) didn't even realize it. Clearly the audience is supposed to feel compassion for cold blooded murderers and child rapists and homeless people who rape corpses, and not want them punished. Just to hammer it home, the lawyers frequently give speeches shaming us into it. The prosecutors do the same, give these windy speeches about how they're protecting all of us by demanding life sentences for, say, a woman who shot her very young daughter's rapist/killer. The characters go to the extreme mat to reopen death penalty cases and lecture the audience about how so many death row inmates are innocent of the charges. And of course the judges in these cases are overzealous crazies who just want to lethally inject someone, doesn't matter who.
Now when I think back on it we spent the better part of the 90s and early 2000s being brainwashed into championing criminals and ignoring their victims.
That's all. I just wanted to rant.
It's....mostly terrible. No wonder it had low ratings, everybody got fired, and then they canceled it.
The characters are a bunch of crazy defense attorneys who fight hard and use all kinds of tricks to get the worst of humanity found not guilty. Even the prosecutors are horrible - only concerned about getting a guilty verdict and no concern whatsoever with actual justice. The main characters almost always win their cases, even when no jury in the universe would have found their client not guilty.
But being neither here nor there:
It's interesting how long the brainwashing has been going on and we (at least I) didn't even realize it. Clearly the audience is supposed to feel compassion for cold blooded murderers and child rapists and homeless people who rape corpses, and not want them punished. Just to hammer it home, the lawyers frequently give speeches shaming us into it. The prosecutors do the same, give these windy speeches about how they're protecting all of us by demanding life sentences for, say, a woman who shot her very young daughter's rapist/killer. The characters go to the extreme mat to reopen death penalty cases and lecture the audience about how so many death row inmates are innocent of the charges. And of course the judges in these cases are overzealous crazies who just want to lethally inject someone, doesn't matter who.
Now when I think back on it we spent the better part of the 90s and early 2000s being brainwashed into championing criminals and ignoring their victims.
That's all. I just wanted to rant.
