True Justice
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| Genre | Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller |
| Created by | Steven Seagal |
| Written by | Steven Seagal (season 1), Keoni Waxman (season 2) |
| Directed by | Keoni Waxman Wayne Rose Lauro Chartrand |
| Starring | Steven Seagal |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 1 hour |
| Production company(s) | Voltage Pictures |
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| Original network | 5USA & Reelz |
| Original release | July 6, 2011 – September 26, 2012 |
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True Justice is a television action series that ran for two seasons starring Steven Seagal. Seagal stars as Elijah Kane, the head of the "Special Investigation Unit", an undercover police task force, in Seattle, Washington.
The series first aired on Nitro, a TV station in Spain, starting on May 12, 2011. It premiered in the UK on 5 USA, with the first episode broadcast on 20 July 2011. The series started airing on Reelz Channel on March 30, 2012.
On April 26, 2012, U.S. broadcaster ReelzChannel renewed the series for a second season of 13 episodes. For the second season, the supporting cast changed slightly and had a new writing team. The second season is sub-titled "The Ghost", the name of the villain that the main characters are pursuing. 5USA also broadcast the 2nd season, starting on 4 July 2012.
Though set in Seattle and the greater Puget Sound area, numerous differences exist between portrayal in the series and the region in actuality:
The series pilot establishes the focal Sherriff's department as being that of fictional Everett county, with its headquarters located in downtown Seattle. (The city of Seattle is actually in King county and there is a city of Everett, 30 miles north of Seattle in Snohomish county.)
The majority of Season One and Two episodes feature plots involving an economically depressed near-to-Seattle waterfront community known as Camp Harmony, a historic World War Two internment site located in what is now Puyallup, Washington. The community is portrayed as an eclectic mix of Native Americans, immigrants from east Asia, impoverished trailer-residing Caucasians, ex-convicts, and refugees from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In reality, no community named 'Camp Harmony' exists in Washington state and the former internment site is currently home to the Puyallup Fairgrounds. Modern Puyallup is an economically vibrant small town and suburb of the city of Tacoma. As an inland community, and contrary to its portrayal in the series, Puyallup is not proximate to the waterfront of the Puget Sound. The plot of Season One features Harmony's refugee Louisiana fishermen as integral to drug smuggling in supposedly difficult to navigate and labyrinthine waterways of the Puget Sound. In reality, the waterways of the region are broad and well-documented main channels and inlets, under frequent use by commercial, industrial and recreational boat traffic.
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