Keeping Faith

[LittleBigPlanet]

Couldn't find a thread about this BBC series which is surprising given how good it is!

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6658720/

IMDb says said:

Faith, a small-town Welsh lawyer, is forced to cut short her extended maternity leave when her husband and business partner, Evan, goes missing. As the truth of his actions surface, Faith must fight to protect her family and her sanity.

Anyone else really enjoying this? Great script, wonderful acting and a fabulous sound track.

A few interesting facts:
- Faith (Eve Myles) and Evan (Bradley Freegard) are married in real life
- Eve learnt Welsh to do the whole series for S4C
- Amy Wadge (who wrote the theme song co-wrote "Thinking Out Loud" with Ed Sheeran) - more on her here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Wadge

[droopsnoot]

I've been enjoying it, last episode this week and I'm hoping there might be a conclusion.

I also enjoyed the recent "Hidden", another Welsh one but set a bit further north. That also had the guy who plays Steve Baldini in "Keeping Faith" looking very different in one episode, and I had an inkling the main "baddie" had been in something else. Turns out he was the hippy guy in "My Family". And there's some crossover with Hinterland as well - those who play Cerys and Tom were also police in that.

imdb is handy for these things, but takes the fun out of trying to remember what other things I've seen people in.

[vxr8mate]

I think it's a little too arty with its moody shots, hair pulling angst and 'let's sell Wales' cinematography. It has really moved at a glacial pace and for me could have concluded in half its time.

[Smollet]

vxr8mate said:

I think it's a little too arty with its moody shots, hair pulling angst and 'let's sell Wales' cinematography. It has really moved at a glacial pace and for me could have concluded in half its time.

Agreed. The music grates after a while too. Apart from that I quite enjoyed it.

[droopsnoot]

Everything has that nowadays, though. Too many out-of-focus bits that just fill time.

[968CS]

Great soundtrack.

[rdjohn]

Thank Evan, it’s over.

The trouble is, it looks like a “retribution” follow-up is bound to be being planned.

This could have been a good 3/4 part series. In reality it was just tedious. Unfortunately I nodded of during episodes 3&4 so there are still huge enexplained gaps in what I actually saw.

[QuartzDad]

rdjohn said:

This could have been a good 3/4 part series. In reality it was just tedious. Unfortunately I nodded of during episodes 3&4 so there are still huge enexplained gaps in what I actually saw.

Don't worry, I didn't nod off and there were still huge plot holes at the end. Shame they stretched 3 episodes worth of content over 8 hours.

[ajprice]

Faith No More

https://twitter.com/TeamEveMyles/status/1295788429...

(I've never watched this, it just came up in my twitter feed)

[PositronicRay]

I'll probably give it a go when it's aired, even if the plot is a bit dodgy. I like the scenery, locations and Eva wossername.

[biggbn]

First series was decent, only got one or two episodes into the second.

[cuprabob]

I notice that this is on BBC 1 Saturday night at 9pm. Not clear if it's a repeat or a new series.

[QuartzDad]

cuprabob said:

I notice that this is on BBC 1 Saturday night at 9pm. Not clear if it's a repeat or a new series.

New and final series.

[cuprabob]

QuartzDad said:

cuprabob said:

I notice that this is on BBC 1 Saturday night at 9pm. Not clear if it's a repeat or a new series.

New and final series.

Thanks.

[Sebring440]

What I don't understand is that the story appears to be "now" (cars, up-to-the-minute mobile phones, etc) but the females are dressed (with accompanying dodgy hairstyles and makeup) as if they are in the 1960s?

[cuprabob]

Sebring440 said:

What I don't understand is that the story appears to be "now" (cars, up-to-the-minute mobile phones, etc) but the females are dressed (with accompanying dodgy hairstyles and makeup) as if they are in the 1960s?

They're in Wales

[Smollet]

Lasted 10 minutes. It was bloody awful. The series started well but has just deteriorated in a melange of moody pouting shots and woke music. Hinterland suffered from the same fate added with the Poldark trait of having sequences of a black horse galloping away from the camera but replaced by a black Audi scuttling about the countryside. Sometimes dramas should end after two series at most. Line of Duty is definitely proof of that.

[Easternlight]

Don't understand what another series is supposed to achieve? The whole point of the first two was the mystery of the missing husband, now he's back who cares what happens next?
Fell asleep half way through...

[droopsnoot]

I didn't think much of that episode - as above, lots of over-loud soppy music, slow bits, and I don't know whether I'm supposed to remember who half these characters are. Looking at IMDB it seems that at least one of them is a new character for series three, despite turning up and making it look as if we're all supposed to know who she is. Did they decide to split off and start their own business at the end of last series, or is that like Kate leaving AC12, something that happened between series?

I'll probably stick with it until the end as it's only six episodes, but once the pubs are open it may fall by the wayside.

[Antony Moxey]

The one bright scene of the entire episode was the judge telling her to get her st together and to stop with the drama queen histrionics. ‘At last’, I thought, after she decided mediation over access to the kids was not happening and it was entirely up to her whether her husband saw them or not. I also quite liked the karma of her eldest daughter being as much of an entitled brat as she is.