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Proven Innocent: Pilot (2019)
A legal drama with no knowledge of the legal process.
I try to watch shows about the law or the legal process with an objective eye, but as an attorney, I found this one so bad I had to force myself to watch the pilot episode through to the end. Aside from the fact that defendants are 'found not guilty' and not 'proven innocent,' which survives barely as an expression involved in an appeal, this show made so many mistakes depicting the legal process, in the interest of saving time, that I literally stopped counting them. For example, at the end of the episode, the Judge says 'based on the evidence,' even though NO evidence had been 'admitted.' Also, and needless to say, if you're going to speak that disrespectfully to a judge, you better be prepared to spend a few nights in jail and write several checks to the court. I don't know if this show had a legal consultant, but if they did, that person should consider another career.
From a character standpoint, it's too soon to see how they will develop, but this show makes the all-too-often mistake of making attorneys out to be hardasses who form one thought and then never question themselves. This, coupled with the horrendous depiction of the legal process, makes this show unwatchable from a legal standpoint.