Broadchurch

Thought it as a horrid advert.

Spent the advert breaks catching up by fast forwarding since younger DS phoned just before the start! Needless to say he has been disinherited ?. Don't forget the shifty person who owns the house. I liked the solidarity piece of the women coming together in the night. And I did enjoy David Tennants meltdown moment with the teenagers.

Yes, I noticed that phoenix

BlueBelle it was a picture of Trish and her daughter.

Did anyone notice that one of the advertisements during the breaks was the one for a new Dior Poison perfume, and had an almost (please note the "almost"!) soft porn style to it?

Not very appropriate,given the subject matter of the program?

I take your general point grumppa but half the suspects in a murder is too high a percentage for the gentler sex. You should know, having been on GN such a long time, what a sweet, unagressive and kindly-natured bunch us 'ladies' are

Welshlife don't be so naive!

Bit difficult here for the suspect to be a woman grumppa!!!

Not having the best eyesight in the world please tell me who was the picture of on the keyring taxi drivers wife found at the end
Well I don't think it's her husband, Jim is too obvious, it's not the spyware lad, I hope to goodness it's not Lenny, he's the only nice (but a bit damaged) one in it

Broadchurch is a very watchable and well-constructed crime drama, which I would not miss for anything. But it does, I think, raise a matter of concern.

A rape whodunnit running to many episodes has to have a fairly large number of suspects, all of whom are men. To maintain the suspense over several weeks, they all have to be seen to be capable of having committed the crime, and are shown to have various unpleasant characteristics. In the specific case of Broadchurch, three of the four key police officers are women, as are several other sympathetic characters. The male hero is a failed husband and struggling father whom his colleagues find so difficult to work with that they call him shitface.

Does this fairly reflect reality? How about some whodunnits where at least half the suspects are women?

My money's still on the last person you'd suspect.

The plot thickens further?
Taxi driver is a nasty piece of work but so is nicey-nicey (creepy) ex- husband. And as for the randy garage man -eurgh!

Good grief

We did see Mark at the top of the cliff, staring down, but I did wonder why they didn't show him jumping or falling...so no, I don't think he has drowned at all. And I think he's too depressed to bother doing anything to Joe.

It was all very sad, though.

I'm with roses it did show Mark walking away from Joe so i don't think he killed him. Not sure whether Mark might have thrown himself off the cliff or over the side of the boat or was it all a dream???

he did telephone his daughter with a kind of goodbye, I love you though, didn't he?

??? you will be.

I don't think Mark will drown, he will probably float to shore and think better of it.

To those who didn't see the first series, it is available on the ITV hub/catch up. DD has been watching it because she was confused.

Well no you wouldn't know your ex raped you if you were unconscious would you??

That's because you nod off during the programme Merlot zzzzzzzz

It showed Mark walking away from Joe, so unless he returned, then he is still alive.Mark said of himself that he was too weak to do anything ( to Joe) so perhaps suicide was the only way open for him.and yet.....he never appeared weak and vaccillating before, did he? Most Fathers would have killed Joe by now.

I'm wondering if he really did drown himself or was it another dream?

Don't like dream sequences. They're just there to confuse the viewer which isn't difficult in my case

I'm a bit late with this as I've been avoiding the thread until I watched on catch up.
Alima 08.25 yesterday
Do we know for certain that Mark was unable to dispose of the other guy, or could he have killed him before trying to drown himself ?
It was so bloody dark in the last 2-3 mins anything could have happened !

Sorry should have said Joe explained to Mark.

We are still not party as to what actually happened though are we? he explained to Mark who said that he wished he could have done something to stop him , but then he said it would have been too late "he was already dead".

Luckygirl's post upthread explains it, Atqui.

I can't remember how Miller managed to keep her job though having scuppered the case against Joe.