Remember when this show was about the behind-the-scenes work of preparing witnesses, setting the right look for the defendants, picking "the narrative" to use, and all the other things that go into setting up a trial?
This show doesn't. In this entire 3rd season, they barely spend more than 2 minutes on jury selection. Honestly, most of these cases don't require "Trial Science" so much as a half-way competent lawyer and a team of good private investigators. Most of the cases have been bloody smegging obvious from the first 5 minutes.
Instead of the show we started with, we have a mindless soap-opera that is only slightly more sophisticated than Perry Mason (sometimes not even that good). Surprise witnesses, improper introduction of evidence, and all the hackneyed cliches of gutter-end legal writing.
One key area where logic disappears from the show is that no one seems to want to get out of jury duty. If someone gets excused for answering a weird question in a certain way, you can damned well bet that a whole bunch of other people are going to try to find a way to work that very same angle to get out of Jury Duty. But in this show... NO, everyone loves the attention and wants to be on a jury. Yeah, Right!
This episode was my breaking point. I thought after the last of the 6 terrible soap episodes, the show might get better again. It hasn't. I gave it a fair shot.
This show doesn't. In this entire 3rd season, they barely spend more than 2 minutes on jury selection. Honestly, most of these cases don't require "Trial Science" so much as a half-way competent lawyer and a team of good private investigators. Most of the cases have been bloody smegging obvious from the first 5 minutes.
Instead of the show we started with, we have a mindless soap-opera that is only slightly more sophisticated than Perry Mason (sometimes not even that good). Surprise witnesses, improper introduction of evidence, and all the hackneyed cliches of gutter-end legal writing.
One key area where logic disappears from the show is that no one seems to want to get out of jury duty. If someone gets excused for answering a weird question in a certain way, you can damned well bet that a whole bunch of other people are going to try to find a way to work that very same angle to get out of Jury Duty. But in this show... NO, everyone loves the attention and wants to be on a jury. Yeah, Right!
This episode was my breaking point. I thought after the last of the 6 terrible soap episodes, the show might get better again. It hasn't. I gave it a fair shot.