Gone (ITV Drama)
Discussion
cuprabob said:
I'm 2 episodes in and it is good and quite intense. David Morrissey is excellent as the headmaster.
Same here, 2 episodes in - It's got a similar quality vibe to Broadchurch.David Morrissey is good, although his 'posh' accent is a little grating - unless it turns out he's a working class boy done well, in which case it's spot on
One of the named actors was Claire Goose, who has turned up for literally 1 line of dialogue and we're a third of the way through, I can only assume she becomes pivitol!
tangerine_sedge said:
cuprabob said:
I'm 2 episodes in and it is good and quite intense. David Morrissey is excellent as the headmaster.
Same here, 2 episodes in - It's got a similar quality vibe to Broadchurch.David Morrissey is good, although his 'posh' accent is a little grating - unless it turns out he's a working class boy done well, in which case it's spot on
One of the named actors was Claire Goose, who has turned up for literally 1 line of dialogue and we're a third of the way through, I can only assume she becomes pivitol!
cuprabob said:
tangerine_sedge said:
cuprabob said:
I'm 2 episodes in and it is good and quite intense. David Morrissey is excellent as the headmaster.
Same here, 2 episodes in - It's got a similar quality vibe to Broadchurch.David Morrissey is good, although his 'posh' accent is a little grating - unless it turns out he's a working class boy done well, in which case it's spot on
One of the named actors was Claire Goose, who has turned up for literally 1 line of dialogue and we're a third of the way through, I can only assume she becomes pivitol!
gmaz said:
Binged it on ItvX - pretty good, and worth staying with.
I was annoyed at how the female cop had an '02 Honda which would not be CAZ compliant in Bristol. Most of the cars on there seemed to be from the late '90's or early 2000's despite the show being set in the modern day.
Also, who has a filofax these days?I was annoyed at how the female cop had an '02 Honda which would not be CAZ compliant in Bristol. Most of the cars on there seemed to be from the late '90's or early 2000's despite the show being set in the modern day.
Finished this last night and thought it was pretty decent. All the acting was top notch but David Morrissey was outstanding.
I don't quite understand the hate for the Eve Myles' character - I thought her character was played much more realisticly than 99% of cop shows which rely on unrealistic super-human observation/logic skills to work out whodunnit. I think she was not so much inept as entirely normal.
Regardless, I think the whodunnit aspect was secondary to exploring all the different ways in which men struggle with their emotions and behaviours crossing over into toxic masculinity. It might be massively unrepresentative for almost every man in the show to have issues, but it's a drama not a documentary.
I don't quite understand the hate for the Eve Myles' character - I thought her character was played much more realisticly than 99% of cop shows which rely on unrealistic super-human observation/logic skills to work out whodunnit. I think she was not so much inept as entirely normal.
Regardless, I think the whodunnit aspect was secondary to exploring all the different ways in which men struggle with their emotions and behaviours crossing over into toxic masculinity. It might be massively unrepresentative for almost every man in the show to have issues, but it's a drama not a documentary.
I found the series gripping, and agree that many of the performances were very strong. I thought the plot and police investigation were a bit laughable at times. E.g. The police for a long time assume the murder happened on the first afternoon and base all their alibi-testing around that, when the body wasn't found for several days after that... then later they decide she could have been killed any time that week. You'd think the pathologist could narrow it down a bit.
Some of the antics of Craig were hard to believe, and in particular why Annie carried on talking to him after one particular incident.
There was also a slightly crude element of 'let's make Michael look obviously guilty in this episode' followed by 'let's make Michael look sympathetic and innocent in this episode', which reminded me of a similar treatment of suspects in the first series of Vigil, where someone would be a hero in one episode, and then suddenly creeping around with a furtive expression in the next.
It was also a bit convenient that the murderer broke down and started behaving like a five-year-old when finally cornered.
But overall I found it an enjoyable thriller.
The thumbnail image on ITVX doesn't look like the main actor at all, it reminded me more of an old character actor, Ronald Fraser.
Some of the antics of Craig were hard to believe, and in particular why Annie carried on talking to him after one particular incident.
There was also a slightly crude element of 'let's make Michael look obviously guilty in this episode' followed by 'let's make Michael look sympathetic and innocent in this episode', which reminded me of a similar treatment of suspects in the first series of Vigil, where someone would be a hero in one episode, and then suddenly creeping around with a furtive expression in the next.
It was also a bit convenient that the murderer broke down and started behaving like a five-year-old when finally cornered.
But overall I found it an enjoyable thriller.
The thumbnail image on ITVX doesn't look like the main actor at all, it reminded me more of an old character actor, Ronald Fraser.
Granadier said:
Some of the antics of Craig were hard to believe, and in particular why Annie carried on talking to him after one particular incident.
How many times do we hear of women in toxic relationships not leaving their abusive partner? Downplaying the violence, blaming themselves and fooling themselves that it's normal? Granadier said:
There was also a slightly crude element of 'let's make Michael look obviously guilty in this episode' followed by 'let's make Michael look sympathetic and innocent in this episode', which reminded me of a similar treatment of suspects in the first series of Vigil, where someone would be a hero in one episode, and then suddenly creeping around with a furtive expression in the next.
They'd been playing the guilty/innocent element for the entire series, was he cold and cruel or emotionally repressed? I think it was an important part of why the series worked.Granadier said:
It was also a bit convenient that the murderer broke down and started behaving like a five-year-old when finally cornered.
Probably quite a realistic response. TV cop show villains are always cold-hearted, brutal, Machivellian masterminds, but the reality was that he was a love-spurned teacher with unrequited feelings. At the end of the day he was a bloke trying to keep it together because he'd murdered the women he was fixated on.Gassing Station | TV, Film, Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff