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Length: 39:00
Posted: 10/13/2011
That disheveled nobody leaning against a wall in the shadows of the city has a story. This is the raw, gritty life of a crack addict as he is led deep into the street hustler world of turning tricks to score his next high. Mickey, a veteran of the streets, takes JT as his apprentice, guiding him on his personal descent below the surface of the everyday world, to the dark places most never see. JT's addiction grows and his personal boundaries are shredded. He meets the strangers whose addiction to the false intimacies he provides is as strong as his own addiction to crack cocaine. Innocence destroyed, JT is never sure if those he encounters are friends, predators or prey. How long can he tread the dark waters before he is sucked under? watch
Last Tuesday night, TV viewers rendered their verdict on Fox's The Jury: Guilty — of a lukewarm series debut. Only 4 million tuned in to the courtroom drama's two-hour premiere, which lagged behind the NBA finals on ABC, Last Comic Standing on NBC and WB's Summerland. For producers Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana — the men behind HBO's Oz and NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street — that had to hurt.
"We didn't expect to start out extremely well," Levinson tells TV Guide Online. "I don't think anybody thought that. The only unknown was the fact that the NBA finals ran smack into us. That's not something you can anticipate in advance. We're gonna have them [this] week, too! It impacted on us."
It also doesn't help that Jury lacks recognizable stars who might draw viewers to tune in. Levinson, who plays a judge, is the cast's biggest name! "Then we're in trouble," he laughs, adding, "We wentread more