Blech.
Blech blech blech.
Just plain blech.
I thought at first that the bad acting, sleazy script, and pretentious editing were intended to convey some sort of artsy-fartsy effect. But when they showed the online poll (for which of the three charges wasn’t clear), I decided that it was just plain cheese.
Did anyone like this show?
Nope. I was hopeful because the premise sounded interesting and I like shows that go behind the scenes to find out how juries operate, but this is one I won’t be following. I saw the first one and then just bits of the second because I wasn’t impressed and I flipped to “Last Comic Standing” instead.
I thought the jury members had horrible dialogue and were mostly stereotypes - the lawyer character on the jury in the second episode was just awful.
spoiler alert for anyone who still wants to watch the show:
I also didn’t get if we were supposed to feel sorry for the boy in the first episode when he was found guilty (of manslaughter, I think? Not the major charges anyway) since they showed he was just shooting a gun for fun. It seemed like it was supposed to be sad that he was going to be punished at all, but I thought he was an idiot and anyone who shoots a gun that recklessly should be punished. Maybe I got the wrong impression, but the show was trying to jerk my emotions around so much I was mostly annoyed by the end anyway.
It’s premiered already?
See, FOX, that’s the problem with being “unconventional” no one knows that your shows are running, so we don’t watch them.
I will still catch an episode, though, just to see.
I watched out of loyalty to Adam Busch, and the show is just…meh. I do like that at the end, after the jury has made their decision, that you get to see what really happened.
Well, that was an hour and a half of my life that i’ll never get back.
I say an hour and a half becuase i watched the first episode, and decided that the next one couldn’t possibly be as bad. After watching another half hour, i worked that it could, indeed, be just as bad, if not worse.
This show will not even make it onto my roster of “shows to watch when i forgot to get a DVD and there’s nothing else on.”
I finally got around to watching it last night. It was awful. Just awful. I didn’t think it was possible for those producers to do something that bad, and yet, they did.
I’m surprised that everyone associated with it hasn’t Alan Smitheed it. Hell, I don’t know that I would even admit that I saw it without the shield of Internet anonymity.