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The Pax TV network promises “quality, family-friendly entertainment, free of senseless violence, explicit sex and foul language.” That’s one good reason for me to avoid it. Just Cause, a new show that premiered a couple of weeks ago, is another. Described by the self-proclaimed “feel good” network as a “compelling legal drama” this dreary offering is, in fact, no more than populist pabulum for the age of Enron. Promoted with the slogan “Cleaning up America…one crooked CEO at a time,” Just Cause is a gimcrack morality play tailored for dunces. More ominously, it is almost certainly an early example of [...]

Goodnight, John Boy

October 11, 2002

Just Cause; published originally in National Review Online