Criminal Justice (2008)
- Directed by
- Otto Bathurst
- Genre
- drama television series
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 2 seasons, 10 episodes
- Rated
- 18+
- Rating
- 7.6 of 10 from 28 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This series follows ordinary people drawn into the criminal justice system. In the first season, a young man wakes up after a night of drinking and drugs to find himself accused of murder. He cannot remember what happened and must navigate the legal process while his life unravels.
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What happens
Criminal Justice is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2008. Written by Peter Moffat, each five-episode series follows the journey of an individual through the justice system and was first broadcast over five successive nights on BBC One. The first series, first shown in 2008, starred Ben Whishaw as Ben Coulter, a young man who is accused of murder after a drunken and drug-filled night out, though is unable to remember committing the crime. It was directed by Otto Bathurst and Luke Watson. In 2009, the second series featured Maxine Peake as troubled housewife Juliet Miller whose husband was stabbed in their bed. Yann Demange and Marc Jobst directed the second series. The first series won two British Academy Television Awards for Best Drama Serial and Best Writer, three Royal Television Society Awards and an International Emmy. The first season has been re-made into an HBO miniseries The Night Of, an Indian Hindi-language series also called Criminal Justice, and a South Korean series titled One Ordinary Day. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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