Jon Shoemaker

Being in college, I have quickly realized how much free time I now have on my hands. Sure, I could read, but that is a little lame with daytime television being on. Daytime television is so trashy, most is not even worth watching. However, Eye for an Eye provides the justice daytime television needs.

Here is a quick summary of the show on the Eye for an Eye site:

In the newest twist on popular courtroom drama, Kato Kaelin hosts this modern take on the criminal justice system. Each week, new cases are tried before Judge Extreme Akim. Fed up with the seemingly hopeless court system, people are demanding that the punishment fit the crime. Eye for an Eye aims to do just that, with innovative sentencing that really makes sense. Has a friend wrecked your car, and now refuses to pay for the repairs? Judge Extreme Akim may set you loose on your friends car… armed with a baseball bat! No case is too extreme… for Eye for an Eye ! If you can not find justice anywhere else… Eye for an Eye may be your only hope! Eye for an Eye captures the essence of justice and puts punishment front and center. A non-traditional, no-nosense, no-holds-barred spectacle of trial and punishment, the weekly, half-hour, syndicated, reality courtroom show, breaks ground and take small claims court to places unseen anywhere else. Unlike any other courtroom television program, Eye for an Eye features the powerful and enigmatic Judge Extreme Akim sentencing his litigants to “paybacks” with signature punishment episodes involving the prevailing party delivering the “payback”. Eye for an Eye viewers bear witness to a diverse mix of cases all unraveling in the courtroom followed by consummation in a real world punishment phase. Featuring Kato Kaelin as host and Sugar Ray Phillips (former middleweight boxing champion of the world) as bailiff, Eye for an Eye , delivers a gavel crack unheard of in the canon of American courtroom television. “Today, justice is a baseball bat”

Before I say anything more, notice all the grammatical errors - that is proof of Extreme Akim’s “I follow no one” style of justice, not even MLA. There is something about Extreme Akim’s knowledge of justice that far surpasses Judge Judy or any of his other daytime competitors. I mean, look at his name alone, and then add to that his payback oriented sentencing. With former middle weight boxing champion Bailiff Sugar Ray Phillips, this duo has no case that goes unsolved. During the entire show, Extreme Akim wields a baseball bat appropriately labeled “Justice,” often pointing it at the Plaintiff and Defendant while taking advice from the audience. And with a name of Extreme Akim, you expect a muscular jock wearing a wife-beater - quite the contrary. Extreme Akim looks like a little boy wearing a black bed sheet, which doesn’t matter; he dishes out Justice with his ability to reason and of course, a bat.