Silent witness - new series

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JonnyVTEC

3,005 posts

175 months

Thursday 11th January 2018
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Good summary there!

budgie smuggler

5,388 posts

159 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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The episode was the usual silliness. Better than last weeks though I thought, possibly as it had less of Emilia's character poking her nose into everything.

Must say I really don't like the new intro music though.

budgie smuggler

5,388 posts

159 months

Monday 29th January 2018
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FFS another vaguely interesting episode ruined by totally unbelievable actions. Why do I watch this crap.

You can apply this comment to any episode: "there is no way <person> would ever have done <thing>"

cuprabob

14,651 posts

214 months

Monday 29th January 2018
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budgie smuggler said:
Why do I watch this crap.
Because of Emilia angel

budgie smuggler

5,388 posts

159 months

Monday 29th January 2018
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cuprabob said:
Because of Emilia angel
hehe true enough.

silverthorn2151

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6,298 posts

179 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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My word its awful. Last night's was jaw dropping in its attempt to squeeze issue after issue into 60 mins.

I'm afraid I don't feel the stirrings for Ms Fox that other's do so her earnest expressions are not enough to compensate I'm afraid.

HTP99

22,561 posts

140 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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The sister of the guy with the mental health issues who was arrested and put in the secure mental hospital; she looks as though she is a carer or nurse, my wife pointed out how can she afford that big town house in London.

Also the toilet door opened inwards so you wouldn't be able to jam it from the other side with a chair.

DSLiverpool

14,757 posts

202 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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Am I missing the point here or do we have a cop with learning difficulty’s in a story about learning difficulty’s ?
Do real cops exist with learning difficulties? This is very odd.
Also Clarissa’s make up yesterday at times made her look like a robot.
Mad show.

budgie smuggler

5,388 posts

159 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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DSLiverpool said:
Am I missing the point here or do we have a cop with learning difficulty’s in a story about learning difficulty’s ?
Do real cops exist with learning difficulties? This is very odd.
Also Clarissa’s make up yesterday at times made her look like a robot.
Mad show.
When you say cop with learning difficulties, are you talking about Nikki?

DSLiverpool

14,757 posts

202 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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The actual copper who bought Nikki a coffee years ago and is hanging around a lot - surely he has a problem?

budgie smuggler

5,388 posts

159 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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DSLiverpool said:
The actual copper who bought Nikki a coffee years ago and is hanging around a lot - surely he has a problem?
Presumably they are making him look borderline-developmentally delayed so that it can be a surprise next episode when the cracks the case with some genius insight hehe

llewop

3,590 posts

211 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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budgie smuggler said:
Presumably they are making him look borderline-developmentally delayed so that it can be a surprise next episode when the cracks the case with some genius insight hehe
I thought he was being portrayed as an ok cop, but rubbish at personal interactions

Filton-flyer

352 posts

87 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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budgie smuggler said:
cuprabob said:
Because of Emilia angel
hehe true enough.
My wife refuses to watch it since the start of the latest series.
She accused me of "only watching it because of her"

She's right of course!biglaugh

Bert Cheese

240 posts

92 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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I'm sure I read somewhere that the rather smarmy US diplomat bloke will return for the last couple of episodes of the current run rolleyes

The cynic in me says this will involve the team flying out to Africa yet again to put right the injustices of the episodes in which he first appeared, and the disturbed ex-RAF bloke had been flying drones for the CIA or whatever...coupled with some sort of cringy romance with the sadly increasingly scrawny Dr Nikki it'll be a big dose of the off button if so.

SW used to be fairly decent to watch...this series in particular is veering towards comedy though, lasts nights episode was plain nuts with its various comedy coppers and the not quite there lad wandering in and out what should be secure buildings at will before a freelance Met sniper took it on himself to shoot him?

JonnyVTEC

3,005 posts

175 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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Wow. Just what was that? Thought they were gonna struggle to wrap that one up. One man went to mow a milly...

silverthorn2151

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6,298 posts

179 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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fk me.

Getting worse.

Taita

7,604 posts

203 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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Genuinely astonishingly bad.

Last time I watched (10 years maybe) it was scientific and cerebral, with you working out whodunit.

Now you seem to know and watch the cast work it out. Awful, awful two episodes.

Paul Dishman

4,706 posts

237 months

Wednesday 31st January 2018
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Getting lots of praise on the Guardian website. I thought Liz Carr was excellent, but all the inaccuracies in the medicines procedures spoilt it for me.

budgie smuggler

5,388 posts

159 months

Thursday 1st February 2018
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Paul Dishman said:
Getting lots of praise on the Guardian website. I thought Liz Carr was excellent, but all the inaccuracies in the medicines procedures spoilt it for me.
I thought Liz Carr was great as usual, and the two kids as well. Even the subject matter this week provided a good basis. That's not the problem, it's the idiotically convenient elements in the storylines and some of the characters which are so stupid that I can't suspend my disbelief enough to ignore them so I can enjoy the episode.

It's so annoying because it's close to being "stupid but watchable". But oh no, they can't think of a way to dispatch the kid so they just get a ridiculously trigger happy armed officer to gun him down, straight in the heart with seemingly no comeback. Or leaving the medicine cupboard unlocked the entire fecking time.

Edited by budgie smuggler on Thursday 1st February 10:03

RotaryPoweredBlender

83 posts

75 months

Thursday 1st February 2018
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It’s a shadow of its former self.

If this was a stand-alone series it wouldn’t get renewed based on the efforts so far, which are just lazy and predictable.