Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Nicolas Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

pensman James Purefoy, Mark Anthony in Rome, plays defense attorney William Travers, an attorney with a defect: he has to believe in the innocence of his client to take a case. It is a defect because what would happen if he got a client off and it turned out they had been guilty. How would Travers live with the guilt; and that is the premise of this mini-series. Purefoy does an excellent job and he has some able backup in Dervla Kirwan, his wife here but remembered from Ballylissangel; and Nathaniel Parker, an old friend accused or murder but again recalled as the lead from The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. Kirwan engages in a sub plot as a retired editor who is now teaching juvenile offenders in prison but takes an interest in one of her charges who shows promise as a writer. Charlie Creed-Miles plays DI Wenborn, a highly flawed detective who beats his wife and is not above planting evidence, as a Javert like detective who would like nothing better then finding a way to discredit Travers who cost a fellow police officer his job. All of the plot twists do come together at the conclusion but each viewer will have to decide how satisfying or unsatisfying is the conclusion.

jk-692-236394 So I was left a bit confused. He murdered the 2nd fellow and he got away with that too? So is he the murdering justice lawyer? I think it is a ripe set up for another series. Ala Dexter. But obviously not as gory. Still there is satisfaction to be gained from seeing the criminals get theirs. I have never seen James Purefoy in anything and I thought he was quite good, and the actress who played his wife. I never understood what the young guy was in jail for. That whole story confused me. I googled it to try to see if any reviews explained it, but the first two episodes were so slow I did FF'ed through some of it so I may of missed that part. I was glad the mean cop got murdered. He was dreadful.

ComedyFan2010 I am pretty disappointed after it ended. The show seemed to have so much more potential and ideas than that lazy finale.The show seemed to have very smart. I expected something about the idea of injustice, and what it means. I thought that since the first guy William killed was an animal rights activist that used violence to get what he saw as justice, there will be some philosophizing about how what Will does can be compared to it and more thoughts on performing self justice. I thought that since William was going through psychologically painful time of questioning the legal system after he defended someone who was indeed guilty he will not be able to handle defending his innocent friend Marting and this would end up sending him to jail and thus again showing the injustice happening.Nothing like that happened. The ending was laughable. My thoughts on the final episode are in my review on this episode. I find it very lazy to suddenly make Martin interested in child pornography. Not only was it basically out of nowhere and William's thought process made no sense whatsoever, it also was just a cheap move to make people in our easily manipulated and child crazy society to see what Will has done justifiable and right without giving it any deeper thought. I think the only people who will be satisfied with this kind of the finale are fat, uneducated housewives who watched Nancy Grace and until now are crying about "baby killer" being out and how they would want to kill her. Which also explains why the group who gave this show the highest score are females 30-44.I am also kind of sad that the story of Alan and his book wasn't really developed. He was just the link to the gun Will used, and while I can see that it is a mini series but I wish there was a bit more to it.There are lots of clichés in this show. I already mentioned that the guys who were lynched by William both committed crimes with children involved. Then we also have the good, talented guy that was bullied and one day couldn't handle it and shot the bully. The mean cop who is abusive to his wife because he got changed by his work. And his partner is of course a new, nice guy. The animal rights person who is of course the evil one because he cares about other living beings as well. etc. etc. etc. But I must say most of them didn't bother me too much. Except for the first one, but this is just because it happened twice, and one should not overuse such a formula in a 5 episodes show.So why after writing so many negative things do I still give it 7/10? Well, because the rest was pretty good. The acting was absolutely high class. There isn't one actor who I think wasn't giving a top performance throughout the show. There were great scenes, great dynamics The ideas were all very good as well. If only one could rewrite the ending it would have been a real masterpiece of television.

michelle-baldwin1 I felt compelled to put pen to paper myself after watching this thoroughly enjoyable drama, I would say by far the best thing on ITV in 2011 Purefoy is at his best with a great support cast in Miles, Diveney, Parker and Dunning. Love to see more of this in the future, the writing is from Anthony Horowitz known for Foyles War, Murder in Mind, Midsommer Murders and The Gift. In the beginning you see only success from Travers lifestyle but it soon unravels into a web of intrigue, not everything is what it seems, flashbacks are used to build a powerful story of a man with a secret in his past, will it catch up with him?