What's the message?

For those of you that have tuned in to the new show, The Defenders on CBS, you have seen something fresh, new, and pretty entertaining. However, I think something is wrong with the message being sent.

This is not a spoiler alert. In it's first two shows, the lawyers, Jim Belushi and Jerry O'Connell, play Vegas Defense attorneys who for all intents and purposes have morals, and have their clients best interests at heart. They are fair, and want to see justice served. However, in the two shows that have aired thus far, their clients are guilty of killing of someone. They are guilty or what they are being charged for, but, they did not intend to kill someone.

One was out of self defense gone wrong, and the other was simply not paying attention. Belushi does a great job of selling the facts that the deaths while tragic, were accidental and not out of malice or ignorance. He sells the client as remorsful, which they are, and he sells the crime as an event that never should have happened, but at the same time is not really a crime at all but really just an accident.

I like the show, but I'm confused, what's the message? Are they saying that it's ok to kill someone so long as it was not your intent to kill them? That you shouldn't go to jail for that? Self defense or not, the truth is people are dead, and your client is the cause for it. Someone should pay the price for that.

I hope to see a case for the Defenders where their clients are not guilty of what they are being charged with and the team is working to get them off, not prevent guilty people from serving jail time.

Watch the show, and see for yourself. Maybe I'm being a little too sensitive with this, but I just feel that the message should be something more positive, even in Vegas. Do the crime, do the time. Intent or not.

Until next time
P