"It wasn't very smart of Hildur to" could be the start of every sentence made about her decisions and behavior.

Historically, Aethelwulf's youngest son, Alfred the Great, is credited with the military feats and diplomacy that saved England from complete Viking conquest. It would be a great ironic twist to the show if the child Judith is carrying after her tryst with Athelstan turns out to be Alfred.

As i recall, the show indicated that the judge ruled without viewing the interrogation tape. I find that preposterous as a matter of law and common sense. but if the show correctly reflects that judges in the UK can get away with making improbable inferences about what happened during, or caused an event, while…

How does that statute remotely apply where 1. the "oppression" occurred after the confession and therefore could not have been the act by which it "may have been obtained," especially since the perpetrator was an aggrieved spouse, not an interrogating officer. Courts in the UK may be more liberal and less police…

Not in the U.S., not with a taped confession and the judge not even viewing the tape or hearing the defendant testify, not to mention the police bias shown by virtually all trial judges when reviewing admission of custodial interrogations, especially in heinous crimes. (The phenomenon where a police officer can…

Isaacs meets someone who supposedly looks and talks just like his dead daughter, and within five minutes they're naked and making out? Who thought that was a good plot idea? Gave me the creeps.