1970. Rumpole is off to the West Country to defend a young woman who has been trapped by the police on a drug dealing charge. She is part of an alternative lifestyle commune and there's a risk that her activist boyfriend undermines her case.
Episode 1 of Rumpole of the Bailey was a fairly dry affair and was not particularly engaging. Episode 2 is almost immediately an improvement with an interesting story and a decent degree of character engagement. The case seems cut and dried but as information comes to light one's views on the guilt of the defendant change, making for a great arc to one's feelings.
Just when it seems set to be great, however, it takes a turn for the unsatisfactory. It's still a better episode than Episode 1 but is disappointing in that it could have been so much better than it ended up being.
Episode 1 of Rumpole of the Bailey was a fairly dry affair and was not particularly engaging. Episode 2 is almost immediately an improvement with an interesting story and a decent degree of character engagement. The case seems cut and dried but as information comes to light one's views on the guilt of the defendant change, making for a great arc to one's feelings.
Just when it seems set to be great, however, it takes a turn for the unsatisfactory. It's still a better episode than Episode 1 but is disappointing in that it could have been so much better than it ended up being.