Steven Seagal going back to beating up fake criminals on TV

Obviously, “original” is being sort of liberally applied here, in several ways. For one thing, upon hearing that title, we were pretty certain that True Justice already had its straight-to-video debut in, say, 2002, and maybe it featured Seagal playing a disgraced former cop investigating his framing in a murder he didn’t commit while romancing, say, Paula Patton. In fact, we had to check IMDb to confirm that we were just imagining all of that. For another, True Justice actually premiered earlier this year in Spain and the UK and is widely available on DVD overseas. And, of course, it stars Steven Seagal as “Elijah Kane,” the leader of a group of “hardcore undercover cops” battling drug lords, gangs, crime syndicates, and other things that might require kicking in the face in the streets of Seattle, which seems like little more than a change of venue and vaguely badass name. But hey, whatever keeps Seagal off the real streets.