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did anyone watch 739 ??

38 replies

JupiterGentlefly · 09/01/2014 20:38

Quite perceptive and horrible. I can see how easily affairs happen. I know its fiction but I am getting quite angry and unsettled. Why did they pursue the liaison?

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Snugglesrock · 09/01/2014 20:41

Me me me
Probably bitter as ex had sordid affair behind my back but.. I was just so hoping it would all stay horrid for both of them. They knew what they were doing. But then a colleague today was like oh no they didn't mean to I'm glad it all worked out for them. What??????? Confused

HectorVector · 09/01/2014 20:43

I'm watching it now... It's awful. But I don't think you really want to know that I think it's crap telly.

HectorVector · 09/01/2014 20:43

So come

HectorVector · 09/01/2014 20:44

On tell me what happens in the end, I can't watch another one!

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JupiterGentlefly · 09/01/2014 20:46

Both had seemingly nice calm settled lives.. and looked for that little' frisson'. As I said its only fiction but its not sci fi and a bit too realistic for my liking. Only on episode one so perhaps I should calm down.
I hope you are over the worst snuggles

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invicta · 09/01/2014 20:47

I watched it. I thought the acting in it was superb. I'm sure many affairs started like theirs - an unexpected friendship that develops into something more. I quite enjoyed it, although found it unsettling also, as two close friends/ relatives have had adulterous husbands recently.

HectorVector · 09/01/2014 20:53

That is NOT Waterloo when the trains are cancelled!! There's barely anyone there. This is not realistic at all! ;)

suchatwat · 09/01/2014 21:01

I found the ending confusing :-/ all ended nicey nicey for him, but she had a different man at the station!

ALittleStranger · 09/01/2014 21:03

You're supposed to assume that she found the courage to leave the fiancee who was patently wrong for her and not settle for being "forgiven".

Snugglesrock · 09/01/2014 21:12

Yes thanku well getting there Grin
Yeah I kinda agree with her. The bloke wasn't nice
But the hubby hmmmm forgiven. Really???

fiftyandfab · 09/01/2014 22:06

For me it illustrated the gender differences on why people have affairs (although rather clichéd). As in him=because he could, her=because she knew there was something wrong with her relationship, so it was an exit strategy.

SquidTableau · 09/01/2014 22:19

i watched it. Whilst I could see the acting was good it wound me up as the end message seemed to be, have an affair then after a bit of shouting you'll get a nice holiday by the sea then all back to normal (for him) or the new man you'd prefer who'll want you and your baby (for her). Great.

Bowlersarm · 09/01/2014 22:25

I'm the same as you OP.

I wish I hadn't watched it in a way. I found it quite disturbing. The fact that Carl loved his wife, referred to her as his 'soul mate', yet you could see that he still needed to go ahead with the affair and risk everything he had at home.

I'm around his age, and it just made me think of us and all our friends living similar lives in a way, and is it about lies and drudgery. Very odd, unsettling feeling.

Theimpossiblegirl · 09/01/2014 22:27

I was hoping they would die horribly in the end or something. It was all a bit of an anticlimax.

HectorVector · 09/01/2014 22:49

Well that's 2 hours I won't get back!

Snugglesrock · 09/01/2014 22:54

Yes squid exactly my issue. I just couldn't get out my view properly

And bowlers arm I felt a bit like that too. Sad Hmm

SandyDilbert · 09/01/2014 23:00

made me so flipping angry - he got away with it unscathed. Olivia Coleman impressive booting him out then just took him back. And was he the father of the baby?

Bowlersarm · 09/01/2014 23:03

He wasn't the father, because they 'took precautions'.

And to be fair, the ending was two years later so we don't know how much he had to grovel, live out of the house for etc, to make up.

Belize · 09/01/2014 23:06

I found it unsettling too and very sad. There was someone on my FB newsfeed (I know, I know) going on about how brilliant it was and how she loved romance... I felt like screaming what is romantic about breaking up two relationships and destroying the children's lives too.

I hated it but watched it for some peculiar reason. Agree that it made it seem perfectly ok to have an affair and that everything would turn out ok in the end Hmm.

SandyDilbert · 09/01/2014 23:31

I think it was a bit too close to home for me so struck a raw nerve!

bestsonever · 09/01/2014 23:41

Gave it 10mins, thought the concept far-fetched given the casting. So irrelevant and teaches nothing about real life. Just cheesey viewing without merit. Did not entertain or hold my interest one bit.

Dirtybadger · 10/01/2014 01:45

The show was a load of bollocks.

Nothing "dramatic" or "romantic" about it. It was a predictable and seedy affair. The woman sabotaged her own relationship because she was too much of a coward to admit to her partner she didn't love him, and the bloke was being a self centered twat during a mid-life crisis. He showed no remorse but managed to get the 'happily ever after' anyway. BLARGH. Made me sick.

Everyone else I know who watched it agreed. I have no idea how I managed the whole thing. I waited and waited for something 'bad' to happen honestly believing no one could have possibly written a happy ending. But they did. Hmmm!

DeckSwabber · 10/01/2014 07:59

Why do you say he showed no remorse? Clearly he did.

He also took responsibility for his own behaviour and didn't blame Sally.

I got the impression that the 'happy ending' was something all of them had to work very hard for, including Maggie.

It was uncomfortable viewing.

quadro · 10/01/2014 08:26

I echo the idea that it illustrates why men and women have affairs: him because he was bored, her for an exit strategy from an abusive partner-beneath that caring exterior, he was obviously a violent control freak.

I didn't find it horrible at all. And I didn't find their affair seedy (though predictable).

Sorry but everything did turn out OK in the end: the pair of them clearly helped one another: he helped her escape her fiancee and she helped him overcome his mid-life crisis.

And most women will forgive an affair if it is a one-off that is out-of-character. He wasn't a serial adulterer at all.

quadro · 10/01/2014 08:29

As for breaking up two relationships, well, one of them -Sally and her fiancee's, that is- should have been destroyed.

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