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Coupling (2000)
Ruined by laughtrack
14 October 2019 - 8 out of 11 users found this review helpful.
Raunchy, funny, edgy, but utterly ruined by the blasting laughtrack. Tragic.
Kavanagh QC (1995)
More than courtroom drama
8 October 2019 - 11 out of 11 users found this review helpful.
The writing and the acting are sublime. We must also credit the editing, which keeps things moving smartly along.
The courtroom scenes are meticulously wrought. As a longtime trial lawyer I can say they are not only realistic, but made riveting by their very realism, rather than by contrived histrionics. There is often a surprising twist.
Each episode has multiple subplots surrounding the central courtroom drama, involving Kavanagh's once-unfaithful but now apparently loving wife, his naive and often disrespectful children, and his flavorful rivals and chamber colleagues.
High literature, this is. Just excellent.