IMBD and Acorn both have the episodes in the wrong order. Season 2 episodes 9 and 10 clearly take place much earlier in the narrative. The IMDB rota descriptions don't match the stories being shown.
The episodes detailed in the Wikipedia entry for the show are accurate.
The show is interesting in a quiet way- the daily doings of a Welsh magistrate's court near Swansea. The accents are lovely, but I have a soft spot for that accent.
It's dated to an extent- sexist remarks and attitudes, smoking and drinking, so delicate flowers might be shocked. It is very human and moving in the portrayals of the lawyers, magistrates, clerks, security and staff who comprise the series regulars and the desperate witnesses, defendants and family members who show up for a wide variety of cases. The mundane and trivial are examined as much as the dramatic and tragic. It is rather unique.
All of the action takes place in and around the courts and the outside lives of the regulars intrude within those environs. The dynamics between the lawyers vying for clients and partnerships and wins are as compelling as the magistrates jostling for dominance and engaging in political maneuvering while wrestling with decisions that will have real life consequences for those involved. The empathy for those who are victims of circumstance or other people that the regulars show tempers the cynical callousness that must be inevitable for those who are exposed to the pettiness, stupidity and casual cruelty of those whose actions cause pain and grief.
Nobody is particularly heroic, just very human, though some are more sympathetic than others.
Mark Lewis Jones is great as the walking disaster that is Des Davies and Eiry Thomas quietly burns as the woman of strict principals and rigid control tries to manage a relationship with this intransigent Laddiest of Lads.
Lesley Vickerage, who is usually one of my favorites, is annoying and petulant as the beleaguered head clerk suffering from insecurity caused by an ass of a husband and the casual misogyny of the magistrates who are condescending and superior to everyone yet whose approval and respect she craves. Her disdain for thecl Welsh is jarring.
Eluned Jones is wonderful as the most senior female magistrate who oozes pragmatism and treats everyone well but who sometimes seems bewildered by things Phaldut Sharma quietly steals the show as the overachieving child of immigrants who would love to break free of his expected life path, but is too decent to break the hearts of his family. His low key humor is a lethal weapon in the face of the ignorant whose matter of fact racism wanders into his path.
The short episodes resolve each case, while continuing stories involving the regulars evolve over the series and characters from previous cases pop up periodically, kind of like real life.
If you're looking for action or compelling drama, you're in the wrong place, but this view into what appears to be a limited world reveals a whole lot of insight into the human condition without going to extremes.
