So the male barristers spent most of their time in court playing childish yet clever games, whilst the blonde female barrister was largely incapable of stringing a sentence together and her main concern was finding a man. Glad to see a programme that challenges gender stereotypes!

Having said that, I quite enjoyed the bits with John Bird - not brilliant but might have potential. The Sarah Lancashire character just irritated the hell out of me and it felt as if her sub-plot had just been put in to bump the show upto 30 mins.

>So the male barristers spent most of their time in court playing childish yet clever games, whilst the blonde female barrister was largely incapable of stringing a sentence together and her main concern was finding a man. Glad to see a programme that challenges gender stereotypes!

I'm not a barrister, or anything to do with law, but given that writer Clive Coleman is from that background, was he actually pointing out that the legal system does indeed NOT challenge gender stereotypes? Agreed though, if he did, he could have been a bit more overt about it.
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>Having said that, I quite enjoyed the bits with John Bird - not brilliant but might have potential.

I still quite enjoyed it though. Laughed a fair bit - Pirates Of Penzance bit was really funny even if it also reminded me of "Great Boo's Up" from Blackadder II. The cunnilingus bit was somewhat contrived though.

The Sarah Lancashire character just irritated the hell out of me and it felt as if her sub-plot had just been put in to bump the show upto 30 mins.
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Maybe - but it was only the first one. Hopefully it'll settle down. And she's certainly much better in it than she was in Bloomin' Marvellous (that one with Clive Mantle out of Casualty about a couple expecting a baby - on about 3 yrs ago, and was appalling).

Wasn't iot obvious that cunnielingus would be made using the word 'cunning'. Although the eastenders section was well done.

The fact that it has Sarah Lancashire in it put me off a bit, but i was surprised that i even enjoyed a little bit of it. Espicially after the bad review in the radio times (probably written whilst masterbating over a picture of caroline Aherne - is that too harsh?)

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>The fact that it has Sarah Lancashire in it put me off a bit, but i was surprised that i even enjoyed a little bit of it. Espicially after the bad review in the radio times (probably written whilst masterbating over a picture of caroline Aherne - is that too harsh?)

Alison Graham wrote that review before seeing it, I suspect. As usual.