The Case (2011– ) User Reviews

An excellent storyline, but still disappointing

[petgor · 6/10 · 3 November 2022]

As I say, a very good storyline, very believable. But I wasn't convinced by the actors playing the defence counsel or his pupil, both were fairly wooden and it was hard to accept their relationship, either professional or romantic. Two of the other characters were usefully obectionable. The court scenes were well presented. A good, though predictable, ending. I quite enjoyed those few parts of Liverpool that we were shown.

In some ways this series, albeit much shorter and with fewer characters, reminded me of the Australian series Crownie, but that was far more polished with many sympathetic characters.

Interesting Storyline

[Cilica · 4/10 · 24 March 2019]

The premise of the mini series seems a good start. Only there were many off-putting characteristics of the filming and acting. The filming was in our face, strange angles and placements. Creative intensions but didn't work. The acting was as if the director was seeking short, choppy bursts of emotions, anger, dismay. Seems many character's anger took over for acting. No one was likeable. Not even the accused, though I wanted to like him. Just he is directed to act in a strange style. Petty office antics with holes to the story. An Odd Duck of a mini-series. Don't waste your time. Acorn TV where I watched it could just leave it off the roster.

Wait for it.......

[mme3924-1 · 4/10 · 1 June 2019]

And sure enough, the twist. Can the Brits not do courtroom drama without the added cynicism? First the Trial: A Murder in the Family and now this one. Not sure anyone can watch this series without expecting that all is not as it appears; it's there in every scene, the breathless waiting for the shoe to drop. Good guys are not as good as they appear; bad guys may not be as bad as they appear.....though the ex husband was over the top unlikeable and jaw dropping in his outrage. He was an EX husband! What rights did he think he had? This series is a mishmash of tease disguised as a question of murder or assisted suicide. Most of the characters are two dimensional, their motivation "on the page" -- meaning, because, like Jessica Rabbit, it's written that way. Nothing seems organic. And then there's the secondary plot of pettiness in the defense lawyer's chambers, with the obligatory and abrupt about face by the major instigator, equally unbelievable. A series with a good premise, perhaps, let down by writing and production.