Broadchurch

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RichB

51,587 posts

284 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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R1gtr said:
Oops, sorry, I did mean is it worth starting from the beginning?
Yes it is. You need to start from about 2 years ago.

R1gtr

3,426 posts

154 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Cool will give it a try and see if I get in to it, off work for 2 months so plenty of time to watch stuff!

Laurel Green

30,780 posts

232 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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That's that then.

Dan_1981

17,395 posts

199 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Enjoyed that.

Definitely worth remembering that it isn't a crime drama, but a small town study.

Good.

K12beano

20,854 posts

275 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Slightly anti-climatic in the last quarter, but satisfactory overall. Most especially for those lovely cliffs looking towards Burton Bradstock, Chessil Beach and Portland....

cuprabob

14,630 posts

214 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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The whole thing is so slow and drawn out to the point they are taking the pics but the excellent acting more than makes up for it.

Also, who is going to break it to Roy that Haley is not dead...

marcosgt

11,021 posts

176 months

Tuesday 18th April 2017
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cuprabob said:
The whole thing is so slow and drawn out to the point they are taking the pics but the excellent acting more than makes up for it.

Also, who is going to break it to Roy that Haley is not dead...
Or that, given she has a child, was actually ALWAYS a woman! biggrin

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GetCarter

29,384 posts

279 months

Tuesday 18th April 2017
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Poor last ep. (plus I guessed it). frown


Melman Giraffe

6,759 posts

218 months

Tuesday 18th April 2017
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GetCarter said:
Poor last ep. (plus I guessed it). frown
Agreed it was poor

r11co

6,244 posts

230 months

Tuesday 18th April 2017
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Melman Giraffe said:
Agreed it was poor.
I'll add one more to that sentiment. So it turned out that the first suspect was the co-perp, making the entire series padding. The way it all fell into place in the end was too easy, and the rapist was a cookie-cutter stereotype.

Loads of possibilities for twists and turns not exploited and the viewer is left feeling a bit cheated that it was all so straightforward in the end.

Lazy writing once again (as per the second series), and the departure of Mark Latimer at the end was completely meh. By that point I had no empathy for him as their story was 2 series ago.

PixelpeepS3

8,600 posts

142 months

Tuesday 18th April 2017
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it should have been Cath Atwood – that would be a good plot twist. She found out earlier that her bloke slept with trish and thought she would punish them both by drugging trish and ‘humiliating’ her by the gag and tying her up (and someone filming which is what the kids where watching from the mobiles?) and framing the husband.

She found some condoms, but earlier in the day so she went and bought the same brand later and kept the receipt, leaving bits of it at the scene.




Bluedot

3,590 posts

107 months

Tuesday 18th April 2017
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The bit with the CCTV evidence at the farm shop seemed a bit unbelievable to me.
A few clicks and she suddenly had the car reg from a conveniently new roadside camera, on a random country road ?

HTP99

22,553 posts

140 months

Tuesday 18th April 2017
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Bluedot said:
The bit with the CCTV evidence at the farm shop seemed a bit unbelievable to me.
A few clicks and she suddenly had the car reg from a conveniently new roadside camera, on a random country road ?
Yeah I said exactly the same to the wife, a bit CSI, fantastic zoom in on the numberplate too!

marcosgt

11,021 posts

176 months

Tuesday 18th April 2017
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HTP99 said:
Yeah I said exactly the same to the wife, a bit CSI, fantastic zoom in on the numberplate too!
Indeed, just like CSI biggrin

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PositronicRay

27,025 posts

183 months

Thursday 20th April 2017
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Can anyone explain why the taxi driver had all those sets of house keys? Did I miss something?

PurpleTurtle

6,990 posts

144 months

Thursday 20th April 2017
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PositronicRay said:
Can anyone explain why the taxi driver had all those sets of house keys? Did I miss something?
I think just to give the penultimate episode a cliffhanger, and enough reason to nick him, get him into custody, challenge his alibi etc.

I too thought the last ep was thrown together in a rush to tie it all up. Cocky rapists like having all the power, I would imagine. No way would he sing like a canary. It would've been 'No Comment' all the way, even though bang to rights.

Mercury00

4,103 posts

156 months

Saturday 22nd April 2017
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I may have missed it, but what was the reason for the beardy rapist lying about catching loads of mackerel? Also why did the second rape victim, Laura, say that the recovery truck failed to turn up when it did actually turn up?

Saleen836

11,115 posts

209 months

Monday 8th June 2020
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9pm on ITV this evening they are re-showing this from S1 episode 1

CoolHands

18,643 posts

195 months

Thursday 18th May 2023
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I’ve been watching this (series 1) on ITVX (app), it’s brilliant! - I think whenever I heard the title previously I assumed it was some boring church type programme lol

If anyone’s not seen it and likes detective dramas, watch it.

tele_lover

298 posts

15 months

Monday 18th December 2023
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CoolHands said:
I’ve been watching this (series 1) on ITVX (app), it’s brilliant! - I think whenever I heard the title previously I assumed it was some boring church type programme lol

If anyone’s not seen it and likes detective dramas, watch it.
Same! I got confused with this and The Bay. I told my friend I don't really fancy some depressing Morecambe Bay drama.....

.... oh how wrong I was!

Absolutely loved it. I'm so gutted there's no more.

I think Olivia Colman is brilliant.