Single Father

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Anyone else going to watch this?

I don't care enough. If I did I'd have been bawling my eyes out.

Weird as I like DT normally.

Yes, that was super easy wasn't it potplant

From next week's trailer, it seems to be spinning in a completely different direction.

I can see how he managed to fall into bed with Sarah so quickly though, having just found out that Rita was in touch with Lucy's dad for all that time when she'd always maintained that she didn't know who he was. I'd be gutted to find out something that massive after the death of a loved one.

I like that red wallpaper with the stars on and I knew Evie was going to walk in.
Quite like Anna and Mr Anna.
Completely mystified by the end.

I'm not sure I like where this is going...

Also had to laugh at the 'I saw you emailed other people with my initials'
WHAT? SQ? Hardly common....

barbarian I had that wallpaper in DD's nursery

It was brill, can't wait for next week. Abit worried that the other kids might not be his and matt will find out whats going on

It was others whose initials were recorded in the diary wasn't it, not just SQ. The others have yet to respond so maybe they too have been strung along into thinking Lucy was theirs ? Why give her name as Rebecca though ?

Glasgow seems like a very small place given how many links there are in the family /friend circle - teacher, lawyer, babysitter .... are the A nd E's always that quiet !

Yeah, I suppose he might lose the sense of loyalty to Rita but why would she lose loyalty to her husband and best friend just like that? I also thought he found the dad quickly, but then how many people would reply to an email about someone they hadn't seen for 15 years? He had been in constant contact and had a child with Rita so would have been more likely to have been in contact straight away. the Rebecca thing was weird, as was the mention that they weren't married, because Sarah wrote the emails on his behalf

If he'd uncovered this thing about the ex would n't he have gone straight back through her diaries for references to meetings , also phone records, email (especially the ones with the photos etc)?

I liked this weeks slightly better - still a fair few moments, but a good excuse to put off the ironing nonetheless

I want that wall paper! - any ideas where I can get it from?

I think they are trying to do too many things at once.

A drama about how a dad copes after the death of his partner would be interesting, or one about him trying to find the dad of his stepdaughter after the death of his partner, or one about him getting it on with the best friend not long after his partner's death, but all these things at once don't work.

Completely bought the idea of the kiss in the first episode as they were both obviously in such a state, but then him putting on his "best shirt", getting the kidsout of the house, and then jumping into bed with her this week, I don't buy at all. They also have kind of skipped over the grief thing this week and just had him being a bit of a shit to everyone.

Mean to say, I think the best way would to have had it as a drama about him losing his partner and then realising that he didn't know her as well as he thought he did, but not with big things like she is still in touch with her daughter's dad, more little things. But this is not how dramas get mage I guess.

AND, after last week's discussions about location, as was said, obviously some bits are filmed in the West End, such as when the inlaws take the dog/kids for a walk in the rain, but when they came out their (lovely) house to get the dog under the car I thought they were either near Dowanhill Street/Dowanhill Road, or Park Circus.

Now, I must go and get a life.

Peachsmuggler: I can guarantee that the house is not in Dowanhill but is in Pollokshields. I could tell you the name of the street it was filmed in, but that would mean giving out too much infomration abut where I live

Fair enough . What a lovely place to live, the southside is great huh?

Currently watching the episode (missed it last night as we were out): the park they went walking in in the rain is Queens Park (also on the South side, not the West End ): I recognise the churches in the background.

Who needs to pay the inflated prices of the West End: the South Side has got everything you need! :)

I'm assuming Rita's sister was such a bitch to her because she has struggled to cope with the number of kids that Rita had when she couldn't have any. I guess she wants to become surrogate mum now Rita is gone? Is she also adopted or was it only Rita who was adopted? That could cause added problems I guess.

Slightly concerned at this idea that all the kids aren't DT's. All getting a bit far-fetched now. The grieving widow going off with best friend is totally believable (Nigella Lawson? Caron Keating's widower, etc, etc) but the other stuff is all a bit much.

And as for how easy it was for him to find the dad !

Missed that Rita was adopted - do we know if she'd traced her real parents or if the adoption is relevant ?

Didn't Rita's mum say "she had a thing about being adopted": it doesn't mean that she was adopted but could be a teenage obsession. Or was it also mentioned last week?

I know my brother went through a phase in his teens of being convinced he was adopted - despite the fact that he was very obviously my parents' son!

Didn't the elder daughter mention about Rita being adopted too? That when she (Lucy) lost her Mum she lost her only connection

No, she's definitely adopted - as Maud says, the relevance is that because Rita was adopted Lucy now has no blood relations hence wanting to trace her natural father.

anyone else notice the errors, or is it just me being a saddo?

like arrnging for his sil to take boys but his ex wife bringing the girl home
and previousy having a parents eveningn where the children were at the creche but coming home to his sil and bil in the kitchen With children
or just me misunderstanding?

Slarty, i think it's more that they are trying to cram stuff in and not explaining back ground info to it's fullest

Didn't pick up on the previous adoption comment

In terms of continuity, I think it is just that they are trying to illustarte the patchwork, chaotic support network and are sometimes not clear that days have passed.

Although you would have thought he would have automtically had the kids in after-school care

slarty, he asked his eldest daughter to have the girl, and the reason the ex-wife brought her home was because eldest daughter didn't end up babysitting but passed responsiblity to her mum. She made some comment to DT when she got back about not taking it out on his eldest (can't remember her bloody name!).