Justice

This was one of the best I have ever seen and I want it to continue until resolution.

I am sorry that this series was cancelled after one season. Justice was different from other crime shows and had a different perspective and focal point; a older judge in a community court instead of the usual police procedurals.

The actor Robert Pugh is different from the standard protagonist, older, wiser and round, but with a steel core. The cast seemed to be good, and the story line progressing well, with a strong sense of a community coming together.

Out of all the shows, this was different and deserved at least a few seasons.

Despite that, the cast is strong and the story threads are interesting.

A judge returns to his old stomping ground to do some good, but he has secrets of his own.

A local reporter is on the scent! The bad guy owns a boxing gym! The local vicar is in it frock deep! Yup. There's nothing really new here but it's moderately captivating in an unchallenging way.

The photography is good, the manipulative music is annoying, but it's all nicely tied up in the end!

Not great, but not bad.

The only thing going for this short series is that I didn't have to invest a lot of time in it. After enjoying Jody Comer's excellent work in Killing Eve I was looking forward to Justice. Unfortunately the story was cliche and uninteresting. What made it exponentially worse was the sound editing. Background music is called "background" for a reason. Likewise for ambient noise such as traffic and pub sounds. On a scale of 1 to 10, if people are speaking at level 4, the music and other sounds should not be at level 9. This just makes the dialog unintelligible, and if you can't hear the story there is no point in telling it.

Add to that an unsatisfactory and confusing ending that was squeezed into the last 10 minutes of the last episode and you just end up with a colossal failure.

This might be an ok show, it might be a good show, it might even be an excellent show, but I can't tell because I can't hear a lot of what's being said. Either the background noise is too loud or the voices are so low in the mix I can only pick out half of the dialog. I love British mysteries and courtroom shows but this is a big disappointment.