Re: GeekTonic`s Ultimate Fall TV Guide

I just watched The Defenders tonight as well.  I enjoyed it and will probably continue to watch it.  Jim Belushi invokes just the right amount of smirky attitude to impart a bit of wry humor while keeping the general tone of the show serious, but not too serious.

On the flip side, I also watched The Whole Truth.  It’s another intense courtroom drama that looks at both sides of the case and then spills the beans at the end so the viewer knows what actually happened.  I don’t recall the name of the show but I believe there was one that tried this exact same venue a few years back that got canceled in short order.  I guess the studios were hoping that viewers have a short memory.

While it was well acted, I’m getting a bit tired of these overly dramatized courtroom scenarios.  It makes me wonder if anyone in Hollywood has ever actually been inside a courtroom watching an actual court case other than O.J. Simpson.  Virtually every TV show about lawyers ever produced gets it completely wrong.  The same holds true for medical dramas.  I spent three years working in hospitals around the country after I graduated college and it’s nothing like they show on TV.  Fact is, most of the situations in real life are completely boring so they have to spice it up with a lot of extra drama so the audience doesn’t doze off.