Dr Foster

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I wondered about the school teacher, too. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't want to get involved with the mother of a pupil - we are getting on to Liar territory here! I agree about the For Sale sign. It can take a few days for a sign to go up, you have to have a valuation first and then the photos get taken, house details produced and so on. However, I suppose we must allow artistic licence in the case of a TV drama.

What about the school teacher involved with her, with all the issues the poor boy is having at the moment i would think the teacher would want to steer very clear of the whole family!!!

She's going to rent the neighbours house..........?.......!!!!!!!

Well I'm confused. You see her driving off with her son. They drive for a while then you see her passing the sign to Parminster where they lived. Surely that means she was returning home?

Maybe I've just lost the plot.

Cherry, the sign outside the Dr's house WAS a 'For Sale' one. If you remember, her neighbours over the road decided to rent theirs. It was the neighbours house with the '"For Rent" board. I noticed both signs as she and her son drove off.

(Sorry for being pedantic! )

I already mentioned on another thread that I didn't like the new series. I agree totally with you Day6. Having lived through marriage and divorce to a serial adulterer I can't believe anyone could/would act in that way.

I think it would have been more realistic to have the car boot stuffed with bags and the lad's bike on the roof. And would it be easy for a GP who had walked out on one job to get another? Oh yes, I forgot, we are very short of GPs so I expect it would.

She didn't put the house on the market, Day6; the sign said For Rent so she would only need to remove their clothes and personal bits. Surprised she didn't have the lad's bike on the roof, but I suppose she can afford to buy him a new one when they get where they are going.

Well at least I feel that my life did not descend into such bitterness, its fiction and there to entertain, not everyone's cup of tea I agree. I want them to wake up and see what they are doing to their son so at least I'm engaging with it seemingly. Don't want a Mills and Boone story.

A lot of people in the NHS are sick tormented characters but they still manage to do a days work. Yes I was surprised by the few bags in the car. My DGC spend the day with me and the back of the car is full!
Thought it was boring, she just seemed to spend the day getting in and out of the car. And in real life she would have been given a parking ticket.

No, Lillie, I really don't feel sympathy any more for any one of them, nary a fleeting pang. As far as I'm concerned they can all end up in a gory pile of corpses at the end, like the cast of Hamlet.

Though I suppose I can't deny that that made great drama.

Surely to make a series work, you have to have at least one character the audience is rooting for?
Maybe, maybe not Maggiemaybe. In this case I think it is clever drama in that we vacillate between both the main characters. Sometimes I feel sympathy for her plight, then I feel sorry for the ex because she is turning the knife on him and his new family in a frenzied, dangerous way. I can't make my mind up whose side I'm on.

(Actually, I thought she might even use the sharp knife on the worktop next to her phone to do some damage last night!)

Same here, Day 6. Unlike the first series, I can't stand any of them, and couldn't give a damn what happens to any of them. Surely to make a series work, you have to have at least one character the audience is rooting for? And never mind the pasta - when does she ever do any work? No wonder the NHS is in crisis.

We've given up on it. We watched episode 2 last night, meaning to carry straight on to episode 3. And just decided we didn't want to waste another 3 hours of our lives being depressed by a load of tawdry tosh.

The whole thing makes me feel slightly sick. If there really are such nasty, disturbed, conniving former couples playing such vile mind games with each other then they ought to be locked away in secure institutions for the good of their children.

I am perturbed that the whole drama, about sick, tormented, twisted individuals is given a veneer of respectability because she is a doctor and he is a successful business man.

Yes, it's drama, it's dark and full of nasty twists but Dr Foster never has pleasant, natural conversations. She is never close to anyone. She lacks feeling, is selfish and totally unconvincing. Her lines are just that - lines - never decent conversations with humans. The whole thing is punctuated with big eyes, shadowy sets, expressionless faces and violins screeching away loudly in the background. The dramatic effect isn't clever or appealing. It's intensely annoying, as is she.

I wouldn't want a woman like her in my life in any capacity. She is cold and her relationship with her son is distant beyond belief. Again, one liners. The dialogue is unconvincing - but that's what the writer wants and it's weird. The son is weird and bottled up too. Her neighbours are strange. Their interaction is cold. Where is any warmth? I couldn't be close to any of them, nor would I want to be.

Not only does she cook a chicken pasta meal in two minutes, she also packs up her house and gets it on the market within a nanosecond of a crisis. They leave with four small bags between them. Where were the mega suitcases?

I was a bitter, angry, hurt, divorced woman once. Many of us have been there and I am sure we all reacted and behaved differently to betrayal, but Dr Foster takes the biscuit.

I dislike her and most of the people in her life, (this drama) intensely.

Yes, I wish I could cook up whatever it was as fast as that. Incidentally - loved her underwear! I had to keep turning up the sound last night. Did anyone else think it was very softly spoken in parts?

I noticed that about the meal - there didn't seem to be a lot of cooking going on and abracadabra it was suddenly being dished up.

Well I think she's more unhinged since I saw her huxxxxx the ex .....

Can't stand the character and find her totally unbelievable and unhinged.

Amazingly shocking, even disturbing, but I'm still enjoying it no end!

Of course, you need to suspend belief, because all those things probably wouldn't happen in one family. If you lined up a dozen couples, however, you could no doubt piece all those elements, together - the parents, the son, the school, the neighbours etc.

The dramatic techniques are brilliant - here comes the symbolism of driving, (in a car), towards and away from conflicts again, hurtling from one crisis to another. The partners' happy wedding scene thrown in for good measure, provided little relief, but Dr. Foster looked serene.

The only thing which troubled me was that it only took her 5 minutes to cook the chicken and broccoli pasta!

Kacee I know I de been there

I have just watched episode 1 of series 1 and wow if the rest of the series continues in the same way I can totally identify with the feelings of betrayal. It takes someone who has suffered in a similar way to recognise how you can become someone you never thought you would be. From my own experience I scavenged for the truth in every nook and cranny (never uncovered it all) but it did change my quiet, reserved personality into a roaring lion. Can't wait to watch episode 2.

Bluebell you are so right. It is like an itchy scab but sometimes it is so very difficult to move on from the love of your life especially when that love is all you have ever known

Trouble is Kacee it's ultra painful when you still love or have loved someone for a long time and it's just mega damaging to yourself it's like picking a scab to make it bleed then crying with the pain It's best to turn your head to the future and try to stop tormenting yourself .....
hearing that sick making speech at the wedding party would be hell