| Genre: | Drama Action Crime |
| Creator: | Steven Seagal |
| Director: | Keoni Waxman Wayne Rose Lauro Chartrand |
| Starring: | Steven Seagal |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Num Seasons: | 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 26 |
| List Episodes: |
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| Runtime: | 1 hour |
| Company: | Voltage Pictures |
| Channel: | 5USA & Reelz |
True Justice is an American television action series created by Steven Seagal that ran for two seasons in 2011 and 2012.[1] Seagal stars as Elijah Kane, the head of the "Special Investigation Unit", an undercover police task force, in Seattle, Washington.[2]
| Name | Portrayed by | Seasons | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |||
| Chief Elijah Kane | Main | |||
| Detective Sarah Montgomery | Main | |||
| Detective Andre Mason | Main | Recurring | ||
| Detective Juliet Sanders | Main | |||
| Detective Landon Radner | Main | |||
| CIA Agent Marcus Mitchell | Recurring | Main | ||
| Mark Simms | Main | |||
| Johnny Garcia | Main | |||
| Jessica Finch | Main | |||
| Name | Portrayed By | Episodes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheriff Graves | Adrian Hough | 12 episodes | |
| Jordan Sparks | Elizabeth Thai | 8 episodes | |
| Edi "Edward" Gogol | 8 episodes | ||
| Brad Gates | Kyle Cassie | 6 episodes | |
| Hiro | 6 episodes | ||
| Castillo | 6 episodes | ||
| Richard Lynch | 6 episodes | ||
| Anna Zemenko | 5 episodes | ||
| Milan Saric | 3 episodes | ||
| Thomas Madison (T.M.) Snow | 3 episodes | ||
| Nikoli Putin | 3 episodes | ||
| Tanaka | 2 episodes |
The series is notionally set in Seattle and the greater Puget Sound region, the Sheriff's Department being that of fictional Everett county, with headquarters in downtown Seattle.
Most Season one and two episodes feature plots involving an economically depressed near-to-Seattle waterfront community known as Camp Harmony, a historic World War II 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.
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. Principal production and photography occurred in Vancouver, British Columbia. Second unit shots and stock footage from Seattle are used to provide localized context between scenes.
The series first aired on Nitro, a TV station in Spain, starting on May 12, 2011.[3] It premiered in the UK on 5 USA, with the first episode broadcast on 20 July 2011.[4] The series started airing on Reelz Channel on March 30, 2012.[5]
On April 26, 2012, U.S. broadcaster ReelzChannel renewed the series for a second season of 13 episodes.[2] For the second season, the supporting cast changed slightly and had a new writing team. The second season is subtitled "The Ghost", the name of the villain that the main characters are pursuing. 5USA also broadcast the second season, starting on 4 July 2012.[6]
Some episodes were made available in Poland on Cyfrowy Polsat VOD, between 30 September and 31 October 2011.[7]
The series is gradually being released on DVD and Blu-ray, two episodes at a time, edited into single "movies" (see below). A box set of the first season was released in Australia by Paramount Home Entertainment on December 8, 2011.
True Justice was gradually released as a series of DVD (and some Blu-ray) "movies" in the UK, Germany and The Netherlands, with each disc editing together two episodes. Deadly Crossing was also released in Mexico by Videomax under their Gussi label.[8] The releases were:
| Year | Festival | Category | Award | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Leo Awards | Leo | Best Stunt Coordination in a Dramatic Series | Lauro Chartrand (stunt coordinator) | [9] | |
| Best Direction in a Dramatic Series | Lauro Chartrand (director) | |||||
| UBCP/ACTRA Awards, Vancouver | UBCP Award | Best Stunt | Maja Aro / ACTRA Toronto Performers |