The Jury- anyone watching?

Just started watching.

Yes watching too early to comment

It's an interesting idea. I'm watching.

Oooh, sounds interesting. Thanks for that.

(Saw the stage play Witness For The Prosecution about five years ago - you could get a ticket to be in the jury.
Brilliant. Recommended)

I fell asleep....

Me too 😴😴😴😴😴😴

I didn’t fall asleep but i wouldn't want many of them on my jury

Started watching. I felt the jurors were acting up to the cameras too much ,and some had already decided he was guilty.
A bit disappointing ,

I hope it gets better. The format is confusing and skips around too much. I would like to see more of the dynamics of each jury, but find it very confusing. Will carry on watching though, it may get better.

I found it chilling. Some jurors were making pronouncements before they had heard any evidence. Two of the men said they could understand the loss of temper as they had thrown things at their wives. The gendered comments were concerning implying that women could be irrational. Neither jury had anyone being remotely objective and insisting on hearing the evidence before making comments.

As it is based on a real case, I wonder if we will learn what that jury decided at the end of the programme.

Luckygirl3

I found it chilling. Some jurors were making pronouncements before they had heard any evidence. Two of the men said they could understand the loss of temper as they had thrown things at their wives. The gendered comments were concerning implying that women could be irrational. Neither jury had anyone being remotely objective and insisting on hearing the evidence before making comments.

When I did jury service there were men and women who had quite startling views about teen schoolgirls more or less "asking for it".

I am reading a similar thread on Mumsnet and it seems that the people chosen as jurors were selected not randomly, as would happen in real life, but based on personality tests, so they were clearly selecting on the basis of extremes of view with the chance to pit one person against another - it rather negates the point of the programme.

Lilypops

Started watching. I felt the jurors were acting up to the cameras too much ,and some had already decided he was guilty.
A bit disappointing ,

When I did jury service, two of the jurors on my panel had firmly made up their minds before hearing any of the witnesses. It was disturbing to say the least.

Final verdict was not guilty, 10 to those 2.

It's interesting but agree some have made up their minds before all the facts are presented.
I also got the impression some had no idea what the difference was between Manslaughter and Murder?

I'm intrigued to see what happens next.

Not impressed so far.

The programme seemed to rapidly evolve into yet another episode of reality TV, with jurors talking about themselves and their life experiences at length. Only one man seemed to want to hear the evidence before making his mind up, and it was disturbing, as others have said, to hear several men saying that they wanted to hear how/if the man's wife had provoked him - appearing to suggest that provocation is a justification for beating her over the the head and causing fatal injuries. The format seems rather contrived and I won't be watching any more episodes.

I'm finding it's typical 'reality TV' format and we even have 'music' of sorts with dramatic sounds to give atmosphere. We don't need atmosphere, music is not required! That just adds to the general dumbing down of the trial, along with the repeated explanation of things.

I realise we can't see the whole trial but I feel like we are missing a lot of important stuff. We just get 45 mins covering two days of trial, so we're seeing very little.

I really feel for the actor playing the defendant. He has to convey very deep emotions and this is captured not only by the camera but the 24 jurors who are watching his every move!

He also has to remember NOT to look at the jurors, because there are two sets of them! If he looks at one set then the others will be wondering who he is looking at. Very tough call for him having to ignore them all completely, and they are wondering why he doesn't look at them.

LovesBach

The programme seemed to rapidly evolve into yet another episode of reality TV, with jurors talking about themselves and their life experiences at length. Only one man seemed to want to hear the evidence before making his mind up, and it was disturbing, as others have said, to hear several men saying that they wanted to hear how/if the man's wife had provoked him - appearing to suggest that provocation is a justification for beating her over the the head and causing fatal injuries. The format seems rather contrived and I won't be watching any more episodes.

It does seem as though the wife had serious mental problems and an ability and desire to drive men crazy. I don't think anyone is saying that justifies bashing her over the head, but that is what caused the husband to see the red mist and lose control. He should have walked out of the room before he reached that point, but he didn't and then it was too late. So they both contributed to the event. She pushed him to the limit and he didn't stop himself in time.

I gave up on this after a few minutes last night. So many prejudices, so many personal stories, affecting jurors’ opinions.
I can’t think it bears much relation to reality, but then which reality show does?

Did try, but found being given the evidence to handle, made the man guilty in some cases, especially a couple of women. No neutrality here. So no I won't be wasting my time with this one.

This could have been an excellent programme if they had actually picked a random selection of jurors instead of using personality tests. I wasn't convinced that the juries weren't composed of actors as it all seemed so false. There were too many breaks after each short piece of evidence and I got fed up with it. No-one had a good word to say for the deceased which seemed a bit odd. However, I will tune in for the verdict.

I think I'll keep watching. The case is fasinating in itself I think. She sounds like a troubled woman- clearly a toxic relationship as one of the jurors commentated.
I think manslaughter for sure so far, though the loss of control element is interesting.

I am another one who will keep watching. The fact that the CPS agreed a charge of murder has made me wonder what is going to come out during the prosecution phase, as at the moment the defence are making a solid case for manslaughter.