As a lawyer by training myself, I can say that for those who want a dramatised glimpse into the world of a high profile barrister in London it's probably not too far from the lives they lead.
It's a watchable show, I watched all six episodes in a day. Sienna Miller is as brilliant as she is beautiful. Both she and Rupert Friend successfully play their characters.
There is a definite sense of entitlement among the elite as portrayed by the show. However, as a man who myself was falsely abused of rape myself, this was very triggering. The women's voices in this show are portrayed as to be believed without question and that men who are accused "must have done something" and probably have even deeper darkness and issues they are hiding in their past (ranging from ignoring suicide, heroin use or dealing, to multiple rape).
Frankly, this show coalesces with the general way the world is going, where evidence is no longer required as part and parcel of due process, but rather a man is accused and then that reputation is extremely hard to shake.
It's a complex area; extremely nuanced and sensitive, and this black and white approach that men are animals and toxic is really just serving to further divide people from one another (who are probably about as divided as they ever have been, with very little uniting them) and in my humble opinion the very blatant and not exactly inconspicuous subtext in this show does not serve to help the dialogue on this important issue but only serves to perpetuate mistrust and sow further seeds of discord.
For whose benefit?
It's a watchable show, I watched all six episodes in a day. Sienna Miller is as brilliant as she is beautiful. Both she and Rupert Friend successfully play their characters.
There is a definite sense of entitlement among the elite as portrayed by the show. However, as a man who myself was falsely abused of rape myself, this was very triggering. The women's voices in this show are portrayed as to be believed without question and that men who are accused "must have done something" and probably have even deeper darkness and issues they are hiding in their past (ranging from ignoring suicide, heroin use or dealing, to multiple rape).
Frankly, this show coalesces with the general way the world is going, where evidence is no longer required as part and parcel of due process, but rather a man is accused and then that reputation is extremely hard to shake.
It's a complex area; extremely nuanced and sensitive, and this black and white approach that men are animals and toxic is really just serving to further divide people from one another (who are probably about as divided as they ever have been, with very little uniting them) and in my humble opinion the very blatant and not exactly inconspicuous subtext in this show does not serve to help the dialogue on this important issue but only serves to perpetuate mistrust and sow further seeds of discord.
For whose benefit?