It's a show that only follows the accused and the defense team. The accused wants on the show to tell his/her side of the story. So basically the show is used to plead innocence in the media and defend your name.
Of course the accused look fairly innocent here. It can even look like some cases are a tiny bit frivolous at first glance. The defence lawyer of course wants to present the prosecution as angry, irrational, and unfair. On the other hand you really don't want to present the other side as incompetent lawyers with little to no evidence as that would make you look terrible if you lose the case. So that does motivate the defense team to at some point show that the prosecution actually has some good evidence on some points - but the overall case is unfair!
You do need to understand what side of the story is presented. But even besides this they leave out a ton of evidence and statements as these are short episodes. We only get a few minutes from the courts themselves and if there are for example 4 huge witness statements they will only show 2 to not make it too long. Even if the statements are only shown for 20 seconds. It's just that they don't have much time because overall it focuses on family member interviews, emotional interviews showing the accused in sorrow, and then a few defense attorney scenes where the attorney gets to brag and show confidence.
It's a very fun show! I'm for sure addicted to the episodes. The music is great and for some episodes the tension is top notch. But overall the cases are often with losers of society. Not that popular people who got into trouble because they couldn't control their anger or fear. So emotional people. They claim self-defense and are otherwise not criminal people so you never know what actually happened. It's a huge shame they only show a tiny bit of the evidence and often leave out big parts of the cases. I would have loved to just look at everything and make up my mind based on the technical stuff. But this show is about the emotions related to a court case. The suffering it causes to the accused and the family. Podcast episodes are better at presenting more of the evidence as they don't have clips of the people involved and can just explain everything fast. I think you kinda need to know where to draw the line. Men would like a ton of evidence and technical details. Women would like to see the family members cry and the accused feeling down. This is a bit of a mix, but I feel like I, as a man, am getting a bit overlooked anyhow. At least present all the technical things fast. Don't just fully ignore some of them!
Fun show though.
