My girlfriend and I both love this show. We can go through two or three episodes in a row on DVD and look forward to more whenever we have time to watch it.
But this episode was so bad we gave up and went to the next episode.
My girlfriend has been an ESL teacher for RCMP officers and has served on a jury, so she knows something about how the Canadian justice system works. She was almost screaming at the TV for how many glaring inaccuracies there were.
I just found the writing lazier than the typical partisan pundit's research.
Fudging details for the purpose of drama is common, and all police or court-based shows do it from time to time; the better shows try to find ways to tell the story within the constraints of the actual legal system.
This episode should never have been made. It should never have made it to first draft. If 10% of the procedural details in the first twenty minutes were right it was mere serendipity.
There is suspension of disbelief, and then there is suspension of higher brain function. If you haven't figured out by now which is necessary to watch this episode to its finish, you might be able to finish watching it.
We weren't.
But this episode was so bad we gave up and went to the next episode.
My girlfriend has been an ESL teacher for RCMP officers and has served on a jury, so she knows something about how the Canadian justice system works. She was almost screaming at the TV for how many glaring inaccuracies there were.
I just found the writing lazier than the typical partisan pundit's research.
Fudging details for the purpose of drama is common, and all police or court-based shows do it from time to time; the better shows try to find ways to tell the story within the constraints of the actual legal system.
This episode should never have been made. It should never have made it to first draft. If 10% of the procedural details in the first twenty minutes were right it was mere serendipity.
There is suspension of disbelief, and then there is suspension of higher brain function. If you haven't figured out by now which is necessary to watch this episode to its finish, you might be able to finish watching it.
We weren't.
