STEVEN SEAGAL -- A Real Man
Tonight I watched my first two episodes of Steven Seagal Lawman and I am hooked. Let me tell you what first grabbed me: Seagal is a REAL person. He has no fluff, no (apparent) plastic surgery, no entourage, and no arrogance. He's a real man, doing a tough job with a fair amount of (well-deserved) celebrity attached to his name. Watching Seagal go through the paces with his deputies is fulfilling and enjoyable, and you feel like you can connect with him.
The second fun part of the show for me is when the suspects recognize him. In one traffic stop in tonight's episode, the two suspects are drunk. The driver says to Steven as he is questioning him, "YOu remind me of Steven Seagal." Steven keeps talking, and the the driver says to his friend, "Doesn't he look just like Steven Seagal?" And then Steven says, "Yeah, I get that a lot." Then he goes back into explaining why they shouldn't drink and drive and what they need to do next. It just adds a little fun to your regular...
"You can look at me as a movie star, or you can think 'Steven Seagal can save my life'"
A full eight years since his face was last seen in theaters, Steven Seagal returns to the mainstream - not as the star of a high-octane action flick, but as a police officer in his own reality TV series. Needless to say, just about everybody was shocked at this news: critics gnashed their teeth in rage that the Buddhist Bonecrusher was making headlines again, casual viewers wondered how he could have gone from a strict DTV career to primetime TV, and even longtime fans scratched their heads and wondered why they had never heard anything to support their hero's claim that he'd been doing police work for the past twenty years. Counting myself among that last group, I approached the show with both interest and apprehension, hoping for the best but bracing myself for the worst...but luckily, "Lawman" delivered somewhere in the upper stratum of those two extremes. If you're not a fan of Seagal, his TV show won't convert you, but fans ought to line up to see this spectacle.
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What happened to the show?
It's early 2012 and his new season was supposed to be starting, so what happened since his show is not even listed on A&E's website anymore? Is it because of his new show on reelz channel, maybe but last month A&E's website said new season first week in January. Well, nonetheless season one was very interesting. He seems to bring the same type of style to law enforcement that he does in his movies. Appears to be a decent, fair cop as well since it seems every day on the news cops are getting into trouble for unnecessary force. If you can't trust the police, who can you trust.
Peter J. Miller
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