Great episode about obvious murder which the scriptwriters use to once again force the audience to think about what is the law and how it may apply to every case differently because of certain details and the subjectivity of human beings no matter how much they reach for objectivity. Picket Fences thrived on controversy and this episode would have been controversial no matter how the verdict would have gone. Either way the episode challenged the preconceptions all of us can have in making serious decisions that will not only effect the person on trial but those who suffered because of him or other outside influences which may or may not have had an impact on the case. Anyway this episode had ended, and I will not say how it did because I hate spoilers, it was a well written and well acted one. One of the better episodes having the sheriff serve on a jury with a trial about killing cops.
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12 Angry Ripoff
Hitchcoc13 May 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This is such a ripoff of 12 Angry Men that it's hard to even comment. There was no effort to show the people most affected by this: the families of those slain officers. We have the usual jurors: the hothead, the pacifist, the waverer, the business guy, on and on. What we also is Jimmy. What did he think of those families? When did he draw on his experiences? What would he have thought if Max or Kenny were the two slaughtered and abused. Without the video, the arguments may have had merit, but not with such an obvious over the top action. By the way, I'm not sure why second degree murder wasn't on the table.
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