Broken

I'm really enjoying this. Sean Bean is great! Wish we'd had a priest like him when I was growing up.I love anything by Jimmy McGovern. He was on tv this morning and seems like a really nice guy.

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I watched it last night and agree, it was a great episode. The cast is flawless. I've never watched Sean Bean in his swashbuckling roles. What an actor. Jimmy McGovern is so good at writing about life and all it's tragedies with some humour.

Another excellent series and Sean Bean is playing the role superbly.

I am eagerly awaiting the last in the series and I hope it does have a conclusion as to Father Michaels personal issues.

So many good programmes around it is hard to keep up with them all.

Excellent !
If you've not yet watched last nights episode I defy you not to be moved.

I'm going to watch last night's episode this rainy afternoon. I went to bed and woke up feeling so low after watching last weeks at 9pm. I fear this is another sign im Turnball no into my mother ?

I was a fan of Sean Bean when he played easy to watch swash buckling parts but then he developed to play parts which mess with my head and give me bad dreams. I've got enough angst in my life and I'm looking for escapism so if he's playing a lead in something, I avoid it! Miss watching him though!

I love this drama, but it awakened too many sad memories of my difficult childhood. I would never have thought that Sean Bean would play the part so well. He is excellent in the role.

I love the way it portrays the lives of those in a poorer, struggling community in all its diversity, the whole range of emotions, love, despair, warmth, goodness, unacceptable behaviour - the real richness of the human condition without facile stereotyping or easy solutions. People are complex, flawed, human . Just stunning

Wow I m truly loving this drama, Sean Bean is playing a great role, really believable So true to life in all the various problems Definitely the best one for a long time

This has been so brilliant. I wasn't previously a fan of Sean Bean - I think I'd only seen him fleetingly in the sort of macho-type roles that really turn me off. But he is magnificent in this drama. It is a really moving and intelligent drama that poses some difficult questions.

Wow. I've just watched the latest episode. It had me in tears. So moving, amazing acting, it has really touched me. One of the best dramas I've ever seen.

I've just finished watching the latest episode. I'm beginning to think that this is one of the most moving, gut wrenching, heartbreaking, powerful dramas on TV since Boys from the Blackstuff. The writing and acting are superb and I find myself so engrossed and moved by the characters and their stories that I feel genuinely moved.Sean Bean should get every award going as should JM.

I missed episodes one and two because we were away and arrived back too late to catch up with episode one. We did see 2.
I found it gripping,great cast, dialogue, dark but moving story lines.
This weeks episode was so distressing. I went to bed thinking about it, woke up feeling sad and took a while to realise I still felt haunted by the programme. Belen the presence of Adrian Dunbar didn't leave me feeling anything other than sad.
Jimmy McGovern is a brilliant writer, this is a brilliant series but so dark.

Nelliemoster don't read this thread till you ve caught up as people may want to talk about things they saw

Excellent I missed the early episodes as they were on choir night and watched them on Iplayer. I am still on catch up so please dont give anything away.

I watched it for the first time this week,what wonderful acting by Sean Bean, the story left me in tears, what an awful situation every way out. I kept thinking of those three chikdren, then told myself off it was acting, but so believable.

An excellent drama, but I`m afraid that I wouldn`t be as charitable as Father Michael is towards his mother, the way she treated him when he was a child.

Just what I said Bluebelle.
Sneaky of her to tell Father Michael she was going to do it in her bed. She was obviously determined not to be saved.

I m really enjoying this drama, what a suicide eh! Not the easiest way to go

Maybe his faith in man took a major blow but not his faith in God TerriBull
I'm not catholic or particularly religious but he could feel that God helped him through it all.

Yes I do know it's not real

I'm wondering why Father Sean Bean would have wanted to be a priest, given his childhood experiences.

This is turning into a really good drama (for me) great acting and so far a good storyline I thought the scene when Seen Been tackled the elderly priest was excellent and really illustrates the harm done to many men by the church

Have watched this on catch up and not sure yet if i like it.

I have a feeling it is going to go somewhere i won't like with the priest and the woman who got the sack( cant remember her name).

I did find the keeping of her mother a bit off putting.

Just watched it on catch up and cried! A reminder of how relatively lucky I've been. What a terrible situation to find yourself in.