It was written around the junior solicitors when it should have been focused on just one main character and since it was the same type of ladder climbing story for the juniors and their bosses. It was redundant and unnecessary and quite honestly rather boring and the main character was largely unbelievable, they state he's 29, has a girlfriend, presumably went through a higher education yet acts like he's a 12 year old who got caught in class with a boner. It's just not a realistic persona. Yet also at the same time his character is clever enough to figure things out and even trick his tenacious fellow trainees...it's all a bit of a stretch. Yet on the other-hand you have Parkinson's character who was quite solidly built as a character. She's unlikable yet capable and still has a desire to climb the ladder of her profession but doesn't want to show any weakness, she deals with deceptive people all day and has a streak of deception in her. Also the story really is about how manipulative courts can be and it's less about truth and justice and more about a win/loss ratio. The writing should have been simplified from the beginning, don't scrap the junior/trainee staff but don't give them such lengthy side-stories. They really should have been background noise for the senior members of staff. All that wasted drama and then they created these weak caricatures with no depth and are just fodder for these younger trainees. All these quick banter scenes with the Barristers and their pupils was mostly dumb and pointless, could have been cut and no one would have known. IF they focused more on Katherine Parkinson's character I think they would have had a really good and enjoyable watch. Her point of view had more to it than any of the rest and had a lot going on yet it was focused on this guy and his stupid gimmicky melodramatic headphone soundtrack. I was getting annoyed when the music went loud and we're just watching this guy traveling around, or traversing a scene that could have been used to tell more story, what a waste. I think there must have been more time figuring out how to squeeze another one of those scenes in there than was spent on setting up the court scenes. And like many people have said, it was often difficult to hear what they were whispering to each other in court so following what was going on there wasn't always easy. This was another part of the production I felt was lacking, and that was communicating to the viewer, what they made clear was that the main character was some sort of spazy dork who inexplicably had some sort of "affair" with a juror yet can barely string a full sentence together around his teachers/mentors, but at times I couldn't understand what in the world they were discussing in some of the court scenes or even some of the quick "banter" dialog was indiscernible mumbling/grumbling.
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