To think the last episode of the JURY on TV was puzzling (Last night)

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I thought the performance of the female barrister was exceptional. She can defend me any day. But did the case ring true to you?

I haven't seen last night's yet - I'll watch it this evening, but the whole thing seems slightly far fetched to me with the blonde woman befriending the jury foreman / spokesman

But it was kind of meant to be far fetched wasn't it? They were showing how everybody comes to the jury with a diffent perspective influenced by different things and how many different ways a person can be biased in their opinions. Anyone of those situations on any jury would effect the outcome. Its a bit like a soap, it was all condensed into one programme.

thanks for the comments.

I suppose everyone doesd come to the JURY with different experiences.Thats why the judge will tell a jury to come to a decision
based solely on what you have heard in court. (Its an impossibility, you bring your whole life to the job. But dont tell a judge that)

Well although I quite enjoyed it I have been on a jury and thought the show was unrealistic. When you're at court the court officials keep hammering it into you how you're not allowed to be influenced by anythng except the evidence you hear in court, and how you can only find someone guilty if you have no doubts. As soon as the blonde woman Tasha aproached 'Paul' and told him she was the foreman of the previous jury, he should have refused to listen to her/informed a court official, and in real life I think he probably would have done that. As jurors are anonymous, anyone could claim to have been on a past jury, couldn't they? It is wide open to abuse. And if that boy Rashid hadn't seen the real foreman of the jury on YouTube, they would have found him guilty and thought they were acting fairly? Crazy! If 'd been on that jury I would have reported what was happening to an official.

I thought that at the end someone would find out that 'Lucy' was impersonating 'Teresa' and the whole case would be thrown out and poor old 'Allen Lane' would be rearrested, but they did nothing with it. So what was the point of that sub-plot? If the series had been longer all the plots and sub-plots would have had time to develop properly, but it felt a bit rushed.

I didn't like the ending. I wanted to know exactly who had killed the 3 women. He still could have been guilty in my mind, far too much of a coincidence although I know they can only convict on solid evidence. Good job that most people often really on gut instinct to keep safe and make the right choices in every day life. I wouldn't trust someone just because I had no written in stone solid proof that they were very bad iyswim.

Lurking. My wife thought he was guilty; and she would be wary of meeting the actor in the street. He will probably have to go in disguise for a while.

Nadia.. When I did jury service. We were briefed byan amusing clerk Frankie Howerd style. "We dont want you to do what a woman did the other day. Saying "I knew him as a kid, he was no good then"

The famous one is "have you noticed his eyes are very close together"

I would not have minded doing more jury service. But beware the major fraud case which lasts 2 months and then its a hung jury. And retrial.

I really enjoyed it for what it was.
It was a bit biased with Julie Walters' character being so much better than the other barrister.
Great cast though.

I thought that at the end someone would find out that 'Lucy' was impersonating 'Teresa' and the whole case would be thrown out and poor old 'Allen Lane' would be rearrested, but they did nothing with it. So what was the point of that sub-plot?

But the point was that it wasn't discovered and thrown out, therefore the decision of the whole jury was in fact invalid. If they had ended with it being found out then it kind of defeats the point the programme was trying to make.

I may have missed something, but I'm very confused with regards to the pregnant woman and why she has just resigned? What is she? Is she a teacher that had an affair with a student or something?!

yes she was stealth penguin!! The head teacher was very forgiving!!!

:O:O Frig me! Absoutely shocking!

This is very fantasy-land! Not true to life in the slightest...

No but aren't they all meant to be extreme examples. So her morals were somewhat adrift already, therefore is she really qualified to be making a judgement about somebody else?

I was waiting for the woman barrister to see the defendant and the godly woman from the jury walk out from the court.

Or someone to find the letters to him from her. I presume it's not on for a jury member to be in contact with a defendant?

Why was the lady juror writing to him. Did she know him?

I think that arsewipe skinhead bloke hit it on the head - she's his partner/significant other.

I watched on replay.It finished with the older man giving the man who was going to America a gift.The picture froze, he didn't get as far as giving him anything.

Was that the end?

No - there was more, LordOfTheFlies. The man got as far as the airport, having been past every significant London landmark in the car on his way to Heathrow, and the next thing we saw was him swearing allegiance to HM the Q as he became a british citizen - with several of the jurors in attendance - the fireman who went to the tanning place, Rachid, the lovely older chap and his wife, Paul, and the ex-teacher with her baby - and it looked as if she and Paul were hitting it off.

The very christian lady should have known that it was unacceptable for her to be communicating with the prisoner - and I am very impressed that he seemed to have got her letter the very next day! The Royal Mail is looking up!

I thought it was going to end with Paul on the train reading the newspaper and then seeing an article about a woman's body having been found and showing you Ann's photo - the religious woman who got together wth the defendant at the end.......and we'd all be left wondering had the jury reached the wrong verdict?

I enjoyed watching the series, but it was very far fetched. I've also served on a jury at the High Court (albit in Scotland) and we weren't allowed outside at lunch time. Had one of my fellow jurors acted in a similar fashion to Paul, I'd definitely have been having a word with a court official about it.

bridgetjones, that would have been a great ending!