This is my first post in about a week, mainly because I have spent the past 5 days pre-occupied with the excellent Criminal Justice.
Ben Wishaw in Criminal Justice
This was a 5 episode drama running every night on BBC1. Monday night’s episode was somewhat delayed by the tennis match between Andy Murray and Richard Gasquet - but it’s for that reason that I ended up watching it. The extra tennis time gave me a chance to properly read the TV magazine which came with The Times on Saturday and I couldn’t help but notice that fact that they referred to Criminal Justice as the ‘TV event of the year’. I decided to watch the 1st episode and see if they were right.
Well, I was hooked! Every night I had to tune in to find out what was happening to poor Ben, both in prison and the court room. Basically he was accused of murder. All he knew was that when he woke up after a night out, the girl he had met (and drank a lot with, taken drugs with, and done things only married people should do with) was dead, and he had no memory of what had happened. I suppose the idea was that the viewer had no idea what had really happened either, but the BBC obviously hadn’t reckoned with my husband, who cracked the case without even seeing all the episodes. (He always does that!)
Anyway - it kept me guessing right until the end. I was a little bit disappointed with the final episode - I just felt it ran out of steam and wasn’t as good as the others but overall the series was really good. It certainly made me never want to end up accused of anything in future, and I might start looking in to a good honest lawyer NOW just incase … (Because according to this programme there are not many out there, but if you want to discuss that sort of thing then The Guardian might be a better place to do that).
Catherine
