The premise of concentrating on the 12 members of the jury and how being involved in a trial affects their personal lives is interesting. However, this programme didn't quite work for me. The jurors became involved in each other's personal lives far too quickly to the extent it seemed as though they didn't all have wider friend groups and lives outside of the jury. There was too much over the top drama going on in the juror's lives - manslaughter, spousal abuse, missing children, mental health crises, police brutality, bribery etc etc. It would have worked better if the jurors were more normal people with smaller personal dramas and the criminality had been reserved for the case on trial.
Ultimately, however, I think the reason the show did not live up to the promise of its premise is that the crime on trial was not interesting or complex enough. Realistically, I didn't believe a case with so little evidence, no body etc., would have even gone to trial let alone managed to convince a jury that there was no reasonable doubt. There wasn't really any evidence any crime had been committed, let alone murder. The accused woman was so unpleasant to watch and the backstory of the crime really voyeuristic and grimy. The niece and aunt relationship didn't ring true and it was hard to engage with or really care when the truth was finally revealed at the end.
Ultimately, however, I think the reason the show did not live up to the promise of its premise is that the crime on trial was not interesting or complex enough. Realistically, I didn't believe a case with so little evidence, no body etc., would have even gone to trial let alone managed to convince a jury that there was no reasonable doubt. There wasn't really any evidence any crime had been committed, let alone murder. The accused woman was so unpleasant to watch and the backstory of the crime really voyeuristic and grimy. The niece and aunt relationship didn't ring true and it was hard to engage with or really care when the truth was finally revealed at the end.