Broadchurch

I followed it through to the end but I thought it was a tad boring, the acting wasn't my cup of tea either.

Not the best but it is of course in the eye of the beholder.

Off to post on Line of Duty which is brilliant.

We caught up with this last night, and I am afraid we were quite disappointed, pity because we had enjoyed the series, could not put a finger on what was wrong, but it seemed to run out of steam.

I have read a comment about the original murder being committed by Olivia s son with his father taking the rap. The willingness of the taxi driver to take the rap in the last episode could perhaps be an echo of this? What do u all think of that?

I do have a stack of unread books ... Or as BookCrossers say ' Mount To Be Read' so MTBR here I come!

ps Elrel we will have nothing but General Election broadcasts, discussions etc from now until whenever!

No, summer's coming and the telly will be dire as usual!!

Line of Duty has left me bemused now.

Looking for an equally gripping and well made drama. Oh well, The Durrells will be a pleasant Sunday night distraction!
Can anyone recommend anything?

Recorded this and watched it this evening, what a good ending, and hadn't guessed it.
Sad for Mark Latimer to have to leave, I did wonder why the whole family couldn't leave the area and start again as a family.
I read that there won't be any more Broadchurch, just the three series.

Yes, I thought she was in the wrong place at the wrong time as I'm not sure how he could have known it would be Trish out in the grounds on her own; he just was looking for an opportunity. I know something happened during the football match but I thought it was the taxi driver accosting his step-son and Trish's husband just gave him a 'look', then Leo sympathised with the step-son and started grooming him.

I agreeAtqui Trish was just unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Juggernaught I remember the story now you say - an awful thing to happen - I wonder if the poor mother agreed to this being made.

I didn't think Leo choose Trish. I thought she just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He said he Always took his gear in case an opportunity came up didn't he? I too wondered how the boy would perform , but as I am says it's the violence of porn that arouses those kind of men.

I thought the twist of having her boss overhearing it actually happening but not realising was clever turnout. Felt it ended flat at the very end, but was also clever as no need for more drama, just another day to get on with your job so no need to make everyone pally going out for drinks etc.

I found 'Leo's' comments really disturbing and frightening and it made me feel vulnerable. It was an excellent series. I did wonder at one time whether it was Mark Latymer getting his own back on life and I'm glad it wasn't him [I just loved the actor in Garrow's Law]. And so life goes on in Broadchurch............

Welshwife
'Little Boy Blue' is a truth based drama, telling of the murder of eleven year old Rhys Jones, who was shot in August 2007 whilst walking home from his football practice.
I won't go into detail of the story, as I don't want to ruin it for anyone; suffice to say it will probably be quite a harrowing watch.
I shall watch it, but with a supply of tissues at the ready.

The rapist chose Trish because he had had an altercation with her estranged husband during a football match and wanted to get even. He planned what he was going to do, took all his stuff in preparation. He definitely targeted her.

He was so ghastly as to almost unreal.

Leo 'chose' Trish because she was vulnerable, drunk, and in a lonely place. It could have been any lone woman who went out for a smoke or a breath of air from the party I reckon.

I've never been a young man but - a young man who had regularly watched hard porn may well have been aroused in those circs I suspect. Also, he was in thrall to the older man. Horrible but I though believable scenario.
Great series

Did you not find it interesting that the serial rapist was an attractive young man who, apart from his obvious personality defects (!), would have had no problem with acquiring willing girlfriends - and that he chose an older, less attractive, victim and not the young girl beloved of most other rape stories on TV, books and films? Which so emphasised Miller's point that it is power that is important - and the chilling way that he talked about it 'being only sex' and that 'they'd already had sex so it wasn't anything special'. It emphasises the way in which young men particularly are manipulated by everything they see around them.

But he wasn't the only one who had suspect attitudes to women: the serial philanderer; the stalker; the 'peeping tom'; the smutty schoolboys; the hard porn watcher. No wonder Miller despaired at one point - but as Hardy pointed out, most men are not like that. Yes, very far-fetched in a small town - I hope.

Bluebelle I think they announced different sentences for each. I agree Michael was a victim too in a way.
Does seem unlikely that he would be able to "perform" given the circumstances. Perhaps one of our male members grandads would like to comment

Yes - he would definitely have had the droop, so the denouement felt a bit unreal.

But the acting is so good that they just about carried it of.

I will miss DT!!!

I also wondered how the heck Michael could physically rape someone in those circumstances that seemed pretty unreal I think his Jon Thomas would have been frozen in fear also I wonder in real life if he would have the same sort of sentence as he was a victim too but that probably wouldn't have been taken into consideration do you think ?

I felt a bit that way too Liz, but enjoyed it. I thought the van would go over the cliff, too much though I think. There have been a few hints that Colman and Tennant will do something else together, they made a good team.
I thought the vicar was creepy as well.

I found the last episode to be a bit of a disappointment. I think they tried to keep the suspense up as long as possible and then wrapped it all up rather quickly. I found myself playing spider solitaire as I half watched.

In my earlier post I rued the necessity of making every male suspect devious or otherwise unpleasant for the sake of the plot. So it was no surprise that the principal villain was both repellent and unrepentant. Given the actual rapist's horror at what his "groomer" was asking him to do, I am surprised he was physically capable of rape in the circumstances.

Two regrets: that it wasn't the creepy vicar; and that at the end of the case the DI wouldn't even buy his DS a drink: no wonder his subordinates called him shitface.

I thought the van was going over too I guess that would have been a bit too spectacular