Broadchurch ITV/TV3 [** Spoilers **]

gjc

Would happily fast forward to next Monday just to be put out of the misery. My fear is that those two clowns will win the trial and joe will get off . Also they will find someone completely random say like the reporter olly for the sand brook murder I have a feeling we've all been given red herrings and the obvious people are not involved

also Pauline quirke I reckon is really joe millers mother not Niges and so her reasoning to point finger at nige

I also find it strange that joe Miller never has a guilty face on him which also makes ne think he will get off if that does happen I think writers / directors should be charged with wasting audience time

gjc

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walkingshadow

naughtb4 wrote: »

I was sure the lawyer and the journalist were sisters

They are sisters. Scissor sisters.

Snoopy1

I'm actually at the point now where I can't wait for it to end. Sick of that idiot Claire and lee.
Just give me the verdict

is it ending next week - great - I won't have to see it again!
awful second series - kept watching it in the hope that it improved but it went the other way.
another cheap move by ending the episode on the verdict - it's not 1985 tv, it's 2015 ffs.
the way to do continue these great 1-off story series (.e.g. Broadchurch season 1) is to go the way of "True Detective" and "Fargo" and do it with a different cast and story in season 2, instead of butchering it.
Although the dynamic in the US is different, shows like "True Detective" and "Fargo" are now vehicles for big-name actors to revive their film careers, so they'll do 1 season, which is not the case in the UK.

Cartman78

This is really starting to unravel now

There was a scene last night when Harvey and Millar were talking thru the details of the Sandbrook case (the one that ends with Millar shouting "That's the lie Millar") that was laughable....made no sense whatsover, completely convolouted and inpentratable. I actually watched it twice in case I'd missed something but it made less sense the second time around

The court scenes are kinda funny now too....as mentioned by a previous poster there was numerous times when the prosecution should have been screaming objection rather than let the defence slander everyone in sight.

And bringing the jury in twice (or was it 3 times)...in super slow motion, in super soft-focus camera style with the music going full blast is just completely taking the mickey with your audience.

It's still compelling in a weird way but, for me, this is gone from being a guilty pleasure to now borderline hate-watching it

donalh087

I have followed it up to now as I know all the characters, quite like some and it is filmed very nicely. But the geriatric lesbian scene just took the freakin' marietta. No more.

groovie

donalh087 wrote: »

I have followed it up to now as I know all the characters, quite like some and it is filmed very nicely. But the geriatric lesbian scene just took the freakin' marietta. No more.

Come on, it's only one more episode, just tough it out with the rest of us.:D
One more hour, you can do it!

mrsdewinter

Gawd almighty. Just watched this week's episode and I can't wait for it all to be over. Unless the producers have an amazing final episode up their sleeves, I'll hit the roof. I'm completely done with the Danny Lattimer case. Beyond caring. Just like Hardie, it looks like. I'm going to speculate that the missing girl is stashed away in France but as for what happened to Pippa, no explanation will make her more than a hastily recreated cipher to make Hardie look like a human.

buckfasterer

Anyone watching on utv?? Well then.....

ThunbergsAreGo

Yup, Filmon is great for watching it early!

Fred Swanson

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just thankful it's over. didn't even care about the reveal of how the girls died. just hope that that's the end of it.

donalh087

What an utterly implausible show.

Patty O Furniture

buckfasterer wrote: »

Anyone watching on utv?? Well then.....

Got to watch half on stv, until someone called to the house (not a broadchurch fan) :mad: watching it now again on tv3, was expecting that bombshell from the jury, maybe another one will come along in the shape of a plane crashing down on the village, heard there's a few russian one's hanging around

Hope there's something at the end of this to justify this shocking season 2:(

Fred Swanson

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HeidiHeidi

Jeez, I'm fairly used to unrealistic police/courtroom/crime dramas, but this one really takes the biscuit.

I'm slightly dreading how it finally winds up, it can't possibly get any worse, can it?

small town girl

How did Ellie and Beth get out of cabin so quickly? Did Joe not leave them behind him when he walked out?

HeidiHeidi

small town girl wrote: »

How did Ellie and Beth get out of cabin so quickly? Did Joe not leave them behind him when he walked out?

I suspended all disbelief about three episodes ago.

This was very lame indeed. Most disappointing.

small town girl

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I suspended all disbelief about three episodes ago.

This was very lame indeed. Most disappointing.

As a standalone series it was fairly ok, but as the follow up to Broadchurch Series 1 it was fairly brutal

somesoldiers

Watch out for season 3 where they may solve the murder in season1...or they may not

Patty O Furniture

glasso wrote: »

yeah she used to be hotter but now has a poundage problem. when yer man (Lee) had her up against the wall in the last episode holding her neck there was a serious double-chin flab issue.

Yeah, i didn't recognise her at first until I read an interview in the paper on the bedroom scenes, as she just had a baby & was worried at being naked in bed!

languagenerd wrote: »

Oh right, sorry, I thought that was an email. Didn't he destroy a laptop at some stage too? It's been so long I can't remember... Anyway.



I hope they stick with the ending from Season 1, but also, we need a few twists in next week's episode to make the last 7 weeks worth it!

Tom was seen smashing the laptop off a wall by the local vicar & confronted him on that, but Tom said if he says anything on him, he'll report him by being 'close to them' on the football pitch, but instead the vicar reported him first!

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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After that woeful season, at least the US had the sense in cancelling Gracepoint!
But i wouldn't put it past them, maybe they'll be looking to see where Ricky Gillespie's wife went missing, probably away on the tear!

What did people think of Gracepoint compared to S01 let alone S02 of this, as i came late to Broadchurch & saw Gracepoint first as was wanting to see what Double emmy winning Anna Gunn would do on this version.

FunLover18

So Lee, Clare, and Ricky were all undone …


















by the floorboards :cool:

dball

Possibly definitely the worst ending to a series ever ever ever ever ever

it did look like he was tightening up his tie to get into his car and drive into a new town and start a brand new detective drama - didnt it?

Also Starring LeVar Burton

That was incredibly disappointing, and I'll probably still find myself tuning into Season 3 out of curiousity to see where it goes from here, but the whole second season was just really really bad compared to an outstanding first season.

languagenerd

Just watched it now (it only goes on the STV player after it's aired in Ireland) - totally underwhelming.

What was the point of the second season?! No big twists or revelations - we're just back where we were at the end of season 1 with a few pointless subplots resolved. Kinda annoyed I invested 8 hours in that...

mrsdewinter

That was woeful. Nothing in the 2nd series stood up to scrutiny or even felt real. Ellie best mates with the family who lost their son at the hands of her husband - who would do that outside the world of prime-time TV drama? The legend of a QC going to work for the former pupil she can't stand? The scumbag child killer heading straight for the village where everybody hates him? I won't even go into the Pippa & Lisa murders. All thoroughly unpleasant people. Apart from the guy who couldn't keep his shirt on, I couldn't give a toss about any of them.

Patty O Furniture

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

That was incredibly disappointing, and I'll probably still find myself tuning into Season 3 out of curiousity to see where it goes from here, but the whole second season was just really really bad compared to an outstanding first season.

I thought someone was kidding, is there really a 3rd season :eek: more nonsense.

Basq

After reading comments here, I'm sorta glad I tuned out not long into the 2nd episode this season..

.. it just felt utterly directionless!

languagenerd

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

I thought someone was kidding, is there really a 3rd season :eek: more nonsense.

Yeah, it was announced by ITV tonight. Tennant and Colman are confirmed to be on board.

I read somewhere that Chris Chibnall always planned for a trilogy, so we can only hope all this nonsense is building up to something major. I doubt it though...

Patty O Furniture

languagenerd wrote: »

Yeah, it was announced by ITV tonight. Tennant and Colman are confirmed to be on board.

I read somewhere that Chris Chibnall always planned for a trilogy, so we can only hope all this nonsense is building up to something major. I doubt it though...

I was watching it on tv3, but what a shocker for everyone hoping that was the last of it

languagenerd

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

I was watching it on tv3, but what a shocker for everyone hoping that was the last of it

I'm just glad it wasn't a cliff-hanger ending, making us wait years for a resolution!

Patty O Furniture

languagenerd wrote: »

I'm just glad it wasn't a cliff-hanger ending, making us wait years for a resolution!

Well at least that's one saving grace about it, it'll be easily forgettable,but disappointing as watched both Gracepoint&S01 in a short space of time & then this.

Some shows deserve only one season eg Harpers Island, Flashforward etc.

mrsdewinter

languagenerd wrote: »

I read somewhere that Chris Chibnall always planned for a trilogy, so we can only hope all this nonsense is building up to something major. I doubt it though...

What a joke. I find it very difficult to believe he set out to write a trilogy. I think he scored a major hit with the first series, ITV said, Have you got anything up your sleeve and, lo, a trilogy came to pass.

groovie

Satisfying ending, Claire is utterly evil. Sandbrook put to bed finally. Where now for DC Hardie?

FunLover18

groovie wrote: »

Satisfying ending, Claire is utterly evil. Sandbrook put to bed finally. Where now for DC Hardie?

Broadchurch it would seem. I kind of got that impression at the end anyway when the cab driver asked where to and Tennant didn't reply but looked around while straightening his eye as though he still had work to do.

I was actually a bit disappointed in Tennant, felt he really hammed it up during the interview scenes.

HeidiHeidi

FunLover18 wrote: »

Broadchurch it would seem. I kind of got that impression at the end anyway when the cab driver asked where to and Tennant didn't reply but looked around while straightening his eye as though he still had work to do.

I was actually a bit disappointed in Tennant, felt he really hammed it up during the interview scenes.

Tennant/Hardy falling over the investigation file in heaving sobbing tears at the end was the final straw for me.

Very much doubt I'll be tuning in if there is a next one.

Although.... Olivia Coleman......

Greyjoy

languagenerd wrote: »

What was the point of the second season?! No big twists or revelations - we're just back where we were at the end of season 1 with a few pointless subplots resolved. Kinda annoyed I invested 8 hours in that...

Yeah when Joe pleaded "not guilty" at the start of the series and wouldn't take the stand I expected some sort of revelation about why he did that. It seemed to hint that he was maybe protecting someone or that there was a larger conspiracy around Danny's killing. But that all came to nothing. It was just so the writer Chibnall could stretch the story out for another series.

I have to admit that I did find the scene with Beth, Ellie & Joe in the seaside cabin very well acted. But to follow that up with the scene of Beth & Ellie having a picnic on the beach stretched credibility for me. I could see the two characters coming to terms with each other but becoming best mates? really?

I don't think I'll be back for series 3.

I can't believe that they have the audacity to believe that people would tune in a for a third series after releasing that bag of shyte that was series 2.

groovie

Well if Season Three is the trial of Lee, Claire, and Rickie, I for one will not be watching. Or will I?
(cue suspenseful music)
(fade to black)

Fred Swanson

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somesoldiers

I would like to see a spin off series with the Ozzie b&b owner....the durt

FunLover18

groovie wrote: »

Well if Season Three is the trial of Lee, Claire, and Rickie, I for one will not be watching. Or will I?
(cue suspenseful music)
(fade to black)

Will Charlotte Rampling and your one be prosecuting or defending … or are we going to see the appeal case for her son?

FunLover18

FunLover18 wrote: »

Will Charlotte Rampling and your one be prosecuting or defending … or are we going to see the appeal case for her son?

I wouldn't advise them going near the courtroom again - in terms of the series 2 scenes there was more tension in the opening of a packet of Tayto.

FloatingVoter

Unless Colman and Tennant are seriously locked in contractually I can't see them risking their reputations on a return leg.
Rampling and Baptiste have made their bones and might return for a payday.
I won't be wasting my time expecting anything much to come of season 3.

solerina

I though both series 1 and 2 dragged after episode 5...they should have wrapped both seasons in 6 episodes imo !!

Duck's hoop

Just finished season 1. Bloody great drama.

Fred Swanson

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HeidiHeidi

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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+1

All downhill from there.

Duck's hoop

I'd have thought so. Very difficult to top that within the same community etc.

Great achievement nonetheless.