The premiere of NBC's new law show Outlaw looked interesting so I decided to stay up and watch a few minutes, and that is all it took. Within ten minutes, things were pretty clear. Smits' character is a gambling, womanizing conservative who is experiencing a change of heart after the death of his liberal father. He is soon confronted by a conservative senator who threatens to impeach him or worse if he doesn't "go the right way on this one" and support the death penalty as a matter of duty to those that "put him on the court". So, of course, he resigns as supreme court justice so he can "fight the fight" and "change the court". When the conservative senator called him a suggested that Smits get a bodyguard, I threw up just a little and went to write this.
Can't we have some complexity? The show suggests that a complete reversal of all the main character's conservative positions represents an enlightened transformation. It's too bad. Outlaw has cool characters, but ultimately it is just lazy liberal name-calling.
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