Garrow's Law - Season 3 - DutchReleaseTeam-DVDRIP-NLSubs

Garrow's Law - Season 3 - DutchReleaseTeam-DVDRIP-NLSubs



This a costume drama and period piece based on real people and true facts all set in the 18th century. It is drawn from the actual history of a young lawyer who fundamentally changed the legal system in England at a time when unfair advantage formed the foundation of corruption and defined the war between the classes of rich and landed nobles, and working class people. Not only is it well acted, but the subjects treated in Garrow's cases are pertinent and timely to our own affairs of today. Enjoy a positive story about the struggle for truth, justice and the dignity of honest men and women no matter their lot in life.

Actors: Andrew Buchan, Alun Armstrong, Victoria Balnaves, Anthony Bowers, Stephen Boxer
Genres: Biography, Costume drama
Language: English
Subtitles: Dutch
Filming Locations: Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK



youtube tag is disabled

The Show:
British period legal drama Garrow's Law continues to be thoroughly entertaining in its third series. The characters we've come to know in the first two series grow and change, but still provide all the pathos and insight we've come to expect. The series is made up of four episodes, each approximately an hour long.
The hero of the show is William Garrow (Andrew Buchan), a pioneering barrister determined to make the British legal system more just, often taking on clients seen as seditious, or troublesome or even merely unpopular. His allies are the lovely Lady Sarah Hill (Lyndsey Marshal), who has left her husband Sir Arthur Hill (Rupert Graves) to live in what is known as an "irregular situation" with Garrow, and the indomitable Southouse (Alun Armstrong), Garrow's solicitor and avuncular voice of reason. Garrow is opposed at all times by Lord Hill, who hates Garrow both for their philosophical differences, and for the fact that Garrow has, in his mind anyway, stolen away his wife. Acting out of spite, Hill retains custody of his and Sarah's son, even though he does not love the boy and suspects he is a bastard born out of an illicit liaison between his enemy and his wife. Garrow's other foe is the arrogant Lord Melville (Stephen Boxer), who alternately tries to defeat Garrow's democratic ambitions, and to suborn him to his aristocratic cause.
Our idealistic barrister does not shy away from the controversial cases, defending by turns a man who tries (perhaps in the grip of madness) to assassinate the king, a pair of weavers accused of assault and trying start a union, and a man falsely accused of murder, while crossing swords with an abusive colonial governor and the city's chief constable. Garrow delights in righting wrongs and chasing after his vision of justice as much as he enjoys a bit of rabble rousing. These stories are intertwined throughout the series with Lady Sarah's attempts, halting and at times despairing, to gain custody of her son from the uncaring hands of her husband. In Britain at the time, mothers have essentially no rights to their children, and the struggle to be close to her child seems at times as if it will both ruin her, and destroy her relationship with Garrow.
As in the past, Garrow's Law: Series 3 presents the viewer with fine performances, dazzling sets and costumes, and crackling drama. The tales flow effortlessly as before, if on a few occasions lapsing into preachiness, something of a recurring weakness of the show. Aside from these few moments, the episodes are tightly plotted and effective, never more so than during the courtroom scenes, as Garrow narrows in to break a witness, or dazzle us with the sheer good sense and justice of his cause. As always, Garrow often spars with his opposing counsel Silvester (Aidan McArdle), though they share a strong mutual respect, and act more as best enemies than real opponents, always under the watchful and just eyes of Judge Buller (Michael Culkin).

Episode #3.1
Garrow attempts a risky insanity defense on behalf of James Hadfield, who is charged with high treason after trying to assassinate King George III.

Episode #3.2
Seeking a challenge, Garrow agrees to defend two Spitalfield silk weavers who are charged with industrial sabotage, but one turns King's Evidence against the other. Southouse is diagnosed with typhus and faces an uncertain prognosis.

Episode #3.3
Garrow takes on the British colonial system when he prosecutes General Thomas Picton, accused of approving the torture of a girl while he was governor of Trinidad, but Lord Melville suggests a deal to help Lady Sarah get her son back.

Episode #3.4
Sarah runs away with her son, leaving Sir Arthur furious and Garrow distraught. Southouse's nephew George Pinnock distracts Garrow with the case of a man framed for murder during a polling day riot that may be part of a larger cover-up.