{"id":926,"date":"2010-09-22T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/09\/new-tv-legal-drama.html"},"modified":"2010-09-22T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T16:11:00","slug":"new-tv-legal-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/09\/new-tv-legal-drama.html","title":{"rendered":"New TV Legal Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>THE lawyer show has become almost as ubiquitous as the cop show, and there are several of each in the \u00a0new fall TV season.<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TJo4j1wqVSI\/AAAAAAAAA_E\/7cCEU2pwOSg\/s1600\/justice.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TJo4j1wqVSI\/AAAAAAAAA_E\/7cCEU2pwOSg\/s320\/justice.jpg\" width=\"212\"><\/a><span>I&#8217;ve reviewed a new legal drama, <i>The Whole Truth<\/i>, which goes up tonight at 10 on ABC. I&#8217;d say the show is decent, needs to fine tune some things, including an off-putting main character, but succeeds at drawing you into the law&#8217;s chess game.<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/tv-reviews\/the-whole-truth-tv-review-1004115763.story\"><span>Here<\/span><\/a><span> is my Hollywood Reporter review, which begins this way:\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span><i>Emotions run high on &#8220;The Whole Truth,&#8221; a legal drama about dueling lawyers who struggle, in the pilot, over a murder and sexual-assault case with possible racist overtones. It&#8217;s a lot of baggage and cultural hot buttons for a show to take on in its first episode, but for the most part, &#8220;Truth&#8221; works.<\/i><\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span>To the right, of course, is a statue of Justice.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE lawyer show has become almost as ubiquitous as the cop show, and there are several of each in the \u00a0new fall TV season.I&#8217;ve reviewed a new legal drama, The Whole Truth, which goes up tonight at 10 on ABC. I&#8217;d say the show is decent, needs to fine tune some things, including an off-putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,77],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-los-angeles","7":"category-television","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}