Comments on: Crownies

By: Jenny D

Jenny D — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:29:34 +0000

After having to sit through the seemingly endless commercials plugging this show (and trying to remember to keep the remote handy to mute that teeth-clenchingly horrible music) and then being subjected to “sneak peeks” I felt that, by the time it was actually airing, that I’d endured more than enough – on a positive note, at least I’m reading more

By: kate

kate — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:48:08 +0000

I was a young DPP prosecutor about a million years ago and I found the show thoroughly engaging, in a soap opera kind of way, and not that far off the mark. True, we weren’t quite that gorgeous (or having nearly that much s–), but I thought it captured the mood – the passion, politics and idealism – brilliantly.

By: atticusdash

atticusdash — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:15:55 +0000

Ah, Daphne… have you actually met anyone from the DPP? Or anyone under 30? I thought the love of the law was apparent, in all its complexity. Why do people believe that justice is intractable and never-evolving. The ‘law of the land’ serves the people, or it is pointless. Its authority comes from the society it protects. I would have thought, then, that the winds of change that you feel blowing in with the ‘disrespectful’ young are authentic. Well done, ABC.

By: Daphne

Daphne — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:28:09 +0000

Too much bedroom and not enough courtroom. Slick, American-style, smart-arse repartee between egotistic, irresponsible, out-of-control beginner-prosecutors. So unrealistic and totally disrespectful of the profession, the crown and the law of the land. Just another soap. Disappointed in the ABC – after their brilliant “On Trial” series, this is the pits. It will do nothing to encourage respect for the nation’s courts.