True Love, what are we thinking?

[TheNightWatch]

I like it, so far. Feel like its abit like Homeland, in that the actress playing the wife looks too young.

Im going to have to watch the last three now, arent I? was last nights better because the acting was better?

i am not sure f the acting was ever bad. but i think it was the lack of a proper story, or the innuendos about any story. it was improvised, they were too short without much meat.
perhaps

Oh the acting was just fine (with the possible exception of Guppy Fish Tennant). It was the lack of decent storylining which let it down, I think. The whole think came off as a bit of a theatre workshop, I think.

Being too short meant that the action was squashed into too short a time frame to be believable. The teenage girl "friend" wouldn't have been hammering on the door after 1 ride home and chat in his flat, the carpet guy wouldn't give away 5 grand just because a girl he fancies says "I love you" when he's only known her a couple of weeks.
They all needed more plot development.

Lorraine was a right mini-Billie, wasn't she! Wrongly cast there.

Isn't Jane Horrocks guy from Deep Space 9?

I really wanted to hate the two episodes last night, as I did the twaddle the previous nights. But I watched them anyway out of curiosity, and although the plot was still pretty thin, I quite enjoyed the one with Jane Horrocks in - probably due to her excellent acting skills more than anything else.

The last one was ok but not great - very thin on plot again. Jane Horrocks was the only good blip in a pile of dullness IMO.

Jane Horrocks was def the best.

And it was Dr Bashir .

Ive just started to watch the first episode on the iplayer. It is weird for me as i know Margate really well! (Wilf has been at residential school there nearly nine years!) I keep recognising places!!

am a bit unsure as to what the point behind some of the episodes was. agree the jane horrocks one was good. but the dt and aw ones, shag someone else but it'll be ok, your wife will instantly forgive you.

Watched last three back to back. Better than the first two lame ones,but marginally.
The Billie Piper one was completely implausible,not the relationship but the ending.
Jane Horrocks was much better. The restaurant scene was very realistic. How many of us have seen/been the couple with nothing to say,making the odd bit of conversation. Ismail was good,but the time frame meant they were behaving a little like teenagers.
The last one was ok. The internet girlfriend was very pretty,supposedly in a good job etc,found it unlikely she would go for a middle aged cabbie living in a high rise. The daughter's friend with the crush,any man would spot the signals wouldn't they?
Is Margate that dead,except for all the affairs? Was very busy when I went to Benbom Brothers :o
All in all,a bit of fluffy nothing to do the ironing to.

Has it finished now then?

I imagined there'd be a last one where they all bump into each other on the beach and have a love fest.

I've watched them back to back too. I think it was all ruined really by the first one. So the DT character's first love leaves him when he's about 24, so the first thing he does is go and get a 16 year old pregnant? Why did the wife have to be 34? Her story didn't impact on any of the others, she could have been having her 40th birthday (although Joanne Froggatt doesn't look 40 in the least!)

I couldn't feel sorry for the wife in the second one, because she had gone out of her way to encourage DT to have an affair with her sister and break up his family, then when the boot is on the other foot, it's all angst is it? I did think the David Morrisey one was a bit odd in places, but it was much better acted.

Kept thinking Kaya whateverhernameis would make a good Doctor who companion, but maybe that's because there were so many Who connections. I have no basis for that opinion whatsoever, apart from thinking she was incredibly beautiful!

Whre was Jane Horrocks going at the end? She was on a train - was she just leaving? going to see her DD? what about Dr Bashir?

Thought there was too much music and staring into the distance etc - agree with others needed a meatier storyline

Was discussing this with my mum today. Funny thing is, she didn't watch the two from last night because the other three totally put her off. So she missed the best one by far, which was the Jane Horrocks one. Did they actually have a physical love affair in the Jane Horrocks one? I don't think they actually had sex, it was more that she needed someone to help her realise she was wasting her life with the other fella.

Agree with the previous comment about seeing couples like that when you go out for a meal. They are everywhere! I always say to my husband that I would hate for us to turn into that. We've been married 12 years and together for 14 years but we still always have loads to talk about. Would hate to be sat there in silence with a massive void between us.

I liked the music

I found the use of Phil Collins especially grating, tbh

The use of Phil Collins is always grating! Lol

I'm just surprised they didn't all keep bumping in to each other, either at the beach or at the train station. And they all had such amazing views from their abodes, must have made them neighbours, non?

All utterly inplausible. Agree with others saying there were big holes in lots of it. I also spotted the 13 years significant gap ref the 16 year old daughter. The casting was totally off kilter. Jane Horrocks and Charlie Creed Miles as a married couple was utterly unbelievable. CCM is 40 at the very eldest and his youngest child was just off to uni which would have made him 22 by the time he'd has his last child. Possible but not very believable.

Margate isnt as nice as it used to be! I knew David Morrissey's late m-in-law. She lived near me and i always had a fantasy about meeting him in our local CO-OP!!!

I'm halfway through the Billie one. I can't understand why some people are saying the acting was fine. Im no actress but I know wooden when I see it. I don't know whether to just skip to last nights?

I'm Enjoying the Jane Horricks one more but why have they got people's ages so wrong? That was their youngest child going away wasn't it and Jane is what? 47 ?

Age 47 is about the right age to have an 18 year old going to university. If you had 2 kids 2 years apart then she'd have been 27 and 29 when she had them. That's not young, unlike the 34 year old with the 16 year old daughter who had presumably met DT when she was 17 and he was 24.

I agree with HorseMAD's comment regard 16 year olds being very confident around men. My friends were at a younger age in the 80's. Depends where you went to school, maybe. Naive people on MN.