For this reviewer, the jury’s still out on Chicago Justice, but not with the network distributing it, NBC. Though the packaging lists this as “Season One,” it’s also officially “The Complete Series,” NBC having cancelled it this past May, a week after airing what turned out to be its final episode. Universal selling this as “Season One” may be wishful thinking: another Dick Wolf-produced show, Law & Order: Criminal Intent began on NBC, but then moved to the USA Network for its last four seasons, so it’s not impossible that program might continue somewhere else.
The show began as a backdoor pilot on a Season Three episode of Chicago PD in May 2016, then returned as a mid-season replacement in March 2017, nearly a year later, a longer-than-usual gestation period. Oddly, while all of the 2016-17 season episodes of all the Chicago franchise shows (the others being Chicago Fir…Read the entire review
