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(Oct. 12) -- NBC announced Monday that it is canceling its new drama "Outlaw" and will move the remaining four episodes from Friday to Saturday night. Besides low ratings, what gives?
Starring Jimmy Smits, best known for "L.A. Law" though he had a nice turn on "Dexter" not long ago, the drama lagged in the ratings. Might that have something to do with the absurd premise behind the legal drama? AOL TV Squad, for one, agrees.
Smits played attorney Cyrus Garza, a Supreme Court justice. So far, so good. But Garza (quickly) comes to recant his conservative judicial beliefs and decides the best way to advocate for his new-found liberal principles is to step down from the bench and become a swashbuckling defense attorney.
But Supreme Court justices don't step down from the nation's highest court because they think they can be more effective in another legal capacity. It's akin to President Barack Obama stepping down to become a lobbyist. Absurd. (NBC threw in a gambling problem for Garza, which does little to make the situation any more plausible.)
"He steps down from the bench, and overnight he's Matlock with Ivy League-trained associates and a bookie," The New York Times' TV critic wrote in a negative review.
TV viewers will accept and even embrace fantasy, from the sci-fi incoherence of "Lost" to the unending heroics of Jack Bauer, but, as in all things, there's a limit. And "Outlaw" passed it.
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Might Absurd Premise of 'Outlaw' Have Doomed It?
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