Highly Overrated But Still Good

Better than most people think

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

This series is unbelievably potty. What are the writers on? Judge JD is a lecher with his brains in ... well, let's just say, not in his head. He will jump in bed with virtually any attractive woman, even if she is a terrorist out to blow him to smithereens (yes, this really happens in one episode), and he completely disdains security measures intended to keep him alive. So, he's an idiot without the intelligence to hold down a job as a toilet attendant, right? But wait -- he is also our hero, the learned judge who sagely dispenses justice in each week's episode, all the while beating off the cardboard-cutout pantomime villains that the script pits against him, chief among them Sir Ian Rochester.Most pottily of all, the legal system is so short of barristers that one of them, Mrs Mills, appears in almost every case he ever presides over. She lets him kiss her, or more, then pushes him away again. The authorities sometimes challenge him on his blindingly obvious and unethical involvement with her, but he gets away with it every time. Week in, week out.In a sitcom, all this might be mildly amusing, but the show is supposedly a series of tense dramas with cutting-edge social and political commentary. Yeah, right.

judge john deed is the best thing i have ever seen in my whole life, the chemistry between martin and jenny is simply amazing. it a shame it not on all to often but i love still. jenny sea grove you are the best ever i admire your ability in the program to juggle a career and having kids how do you do it lol. anyway the episode hidden agenda and appropriate response are the best ever i cant get over just he treat poor Jo but she always takes him back but i guess that is what the show is all about even my 11 year old daughter loves it and really admires Jo for getting a education before becoming an actress. it shows how much they care for animals when they add snippets of how unfairly treated they are. jenny sea grove is part of care for the wild, which my father setup among other people.

Having been bought up in Australia with a father who was a barrister and once offered a Supreme Court judicial appointment - I have to say that this program goes a long way to showing the true imperialism of the judicial system.My father rejected the overtures for his own reasons but having watched Deeds I have to say I have seen it all. A judge is a mentor, a guardian, an executioner but most of all a human being. The politics that goes with the position is common.Look at your own life! Change Deeds into the counselor at school, the mediator in a dispute, the local parish priest, the HR officer at work and somewhere there is a Deeds in it.To look upon the law and see the stupidity of it is a gift most lack because there is no law just politics and Judge John Deed highlights that more than any law and order program now or in the past. I believe this is the intention of the program. Entertain - definitely - educate on how the system is and can be twisted more than likely.Watch Deeds and say to yourself "Why is it so =- how can this happen - and how many times has it happened?". Watch again the next week and ask the same question.Be prepared to think

One of the most hilariously unrealistic shows ever made. Think Footballers' Wives for the judicial system. I am sure that the comments suggesting that this is realistic are being sarcastic.The reason that this show is so funny is that Martin Shaw (like most of the other actors) takes his role so seriously. The show is actually rather similar to Rumpole of the Bailey, with outrageous coincidences, unlikely plot lines, and a parody of the British establishment. What sets Judge John Deed apart is the earnestness of the actors. It is as though the writers of Blackadder have been teamed up with the cast of Elizabeth R: and no-one has told the writers that it was meant to be serious or the actors that it is a comedy.