History Series / TrialAndError

** The second season parodies [[Film/TheJinx "The Jinx"]]. Both feature a billionaire as the main suspect, a billionaire with a history of deaths in their families including the suicide of a parent at an early age. The biggest reference is in Episode 6, when Nina confirms [[spoiler: Lavinia's guilt]] by accidentally recording Lavinia [[spoiler: drunkenly admitting she got away with murder]] after she left her microphone on during a trip to the bathroom.

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Josh gets Lavinia to admit to a long series of murders, Jesse Ray Beaumont goes free, and Carol Anne eventually gets elected DA. But the father of Carol Anne's baby turns out to be Rutger Hiss, to the disappointment of both Josh and Carol Anne. On the upside, the two are now openly flirting with each other with the possibility that they will pursue an actual romantic relationship.]]

* ClusterFBomb: Carol Anne's ''gigantic'' meltdown [[spoiler: upon realizing that Lavinia's being acquitted]] in Episode Five.

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* IronicName: [[spoiler: Subverted with "Lady, Killer", when it's revealed that Lavinia is, in fact, a killer.]]

* WomenDrivers: By law, women driving on East Peck have to have someone ahead of her warning the public by waving red flags and yelling "Lady driver!" [[spoiler: If you pay attention, this is a key hint that Lavinia is guilty; she doesn't have a flag boy in front of her car on the night of the murder, because why would she want him to know where she was going?]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: The DNA tester compulsively masturbates when anxious. When he's called as a witness in the trial, his evidence is dismissed because he's contaminated every crime scene he's been in.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Josh has trouble discerning the proper pronunciation of Judge Horsedich's name from how it's written. ("Heisendyke", for the record.)

** The judge presiding the case in season one is named ([[UnfortunateName rather unfortunately]]) Horsedich. The joke continues in season two with Judge [[UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton Alexander]] Kamiltow.

''Trial & Error'' is a single-camera {{Mockumentary}} anthology sitcom starring Creator/NicholasDAgosto, Creator/JaymaMays, Creator/StevenBoyer, and Creator/SherriSheppard. Each season focuses on a sensational trial that occurs in the town of East Peck, South Carolina as the core cast of oddball legal experts try to win the case by whatever means necessary.

''Trial & Error'' is a single-camera {{Mockumentary}} anthology sitcom starring Nicholas D'Agosto, Jayma Mays, Steven Boyer, and Sherri Sheppard. Each season focuses on a sensational trial that occurs in the town of East Peck, South Carolina as the core cast of oddball legal experts try to win the case by whatever means necessary.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Josh goes to confront Carol Anne about hair samples that had been mysteriously removed from his evidence book, leading to this gem:
-->'''Josh:''' Why did you get rid of the hair?!?!\\
'''Carol Anne:''' Some men prefer it like that.\\
'''Josh:''' Not what I meant but...yes.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At a veterinary clinic, Josh and Carol Anne bicker while yanking a magazine called ''Furtility'' away from each other. The magazine's back cover shows two alligators positioned in a way to blatantly hint that they're in the middle of mating.

* BiTheWay:
** Larry swings both ways.
-->'''Larry:''' Sexuality is fluid, and sometimes my fluids go towards men.
** Summer openly identifies as bisexual as well, and at the very least Carol Anne isn't above using her wiles to seduce Summer over to the prosecution's side, further adding that the dating pool in East Peck is extremely limited if you consider cousins off-limits. The show also explicitly uses the word 'bisexual', which is [[NoBisexuals surprisingly uncommon]].

* ShaggySearchTechnique: Anne accidentally triggers a secret door in [[spoiler:Lavinia's pool room that leads to the river below, proving that she could've killed Edgar and disposed of the body within the timeframe]], putting yet another wrench in Josh's case.

The series premiered on Creator/{{NBC}} on March 14, 2017. A second season was [[http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/trial-and-error-renewed-season-2-nbc-1202424045/ confirmed by NBC]] as of May 20, 2017.

* WomenDrivers: By law, women driving on East Peck have to have someone ahead of her warning the public by waving red flags and yelling "Woman driver!" [[spoiler: If you pay attention, this is a key hint that Lavinia is guilty; she doesn't have a flag boy in front of her car on the night of the murder, because why would she want him to know where she was going?]]

* RogueAnglesOfSatin: East Peck has the worst school system in the country and the people's atrocious spelling becomes an issue in the second half of the season.

''Trial & Error'' is a single-camera {{Mockumentary}} anthology sitcom starring Nicholas D'Agosto, Jayma Mays, and Sherri Sheppard. Each season focuses on a sensational trial that occurs in the town of East Peck, South Carolina as the core cast of oddball legal experts try to win the case by whatever means necessary.