On the surface, this BBC series feels like any one of a dozen other courtroom dramas about a new law enforcement agent coming to a tough town and trying to make things right. Most series, though, don’t have somebody like Robert Pugh playing the guy bringing the tough justice to town. In the show, Pugh plays Judge Patrick Coburn, a local lad who went away, made good and is now returning home to Liverpool to run an experimental courthouse designed to give offenders a better chance of making a new life for themselves. Just when his work in the courtroom starts having an effect, a newspaper reporter starts digging up facts about the judge, particularly about his life in Liverpool before he left, that could bring his career crashing down. Well paced and extremely well acted, the series doesn’t worry about giving every episode a cliffhanger ending because it knows, with characters like this, you’ll come back for more no matter what.
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