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a mothers son

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Blondeshavemorefun · 03/09/2012 21:59

anyone watching??

dp and i think maybe its the husband - not the son or stepson ....................

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Blondeshavemorefun · 04/09/2012 22:28

All over sex????

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EverybodysDoeEyed · 04/09/2012 22:42

yes

but he did let his mum off at the end and say it wasn't down to his upbringing blah blah blah

MsNobodyIsOrangeAgain · 04/09/2012 23:14

It was a story without a twist at the end really.

You expect it to be someone else, but it isn't. It was ok.

MrTumblesSpottyBum · 04/09/2012 23:39

Hmm, it was pretty depressing...

Does anyone know where it was filmed? The dunes looked lovely!

tw12 · 05/09/2012 00:38

Hmm boring.

I was wanting a twist.

springydaffs · 05/09/2012 01:14

I thought it was fantastic. proper blubbed at the end.

fantastic too if it puts across the message that the EVIL WEED fucks up young people's minds. I'd be all for putting that message across, frankly.

Hermione fantastic - all that ropey neck strain muscles. Her hair is very thin and they had to cut it from the usual bob because she'd look too posh and naice with a bob. Martin Clunes was good - or his lines were/character was good. Paul McGann, can never hear what he's saying

expatinscotland · 05/09/2012 02:47

Of course over sex. Plenty of people kill over it. There are stories all over now, people who murdered their children and/or their partner and themselves because they wouldn't have a relationship/sex with them anymore. Four currently - the Polish man in the Isle of Wight guilty of manslaughter awaiting sentence for killing his wife, FIL, two children, friend's wife and her daughter because she had a relationship with someone else, the soldier whose former partner was having sex with someone else not himself, the man in Wiltshire who killed himself and his and his partner's two sons as she posted on FB she was in a relationship with someone else, the woman who killed her daughter after her partner texted he had a date with someone else.

expatinscotland · 05/09/2012 02:48

'Why do people kill other people?' as the book goes. 'Lots of reasons: money, sex, revenge.'

wonderingwendy · 05/09/2012 06:36

i thought it was brilliant - i thought it as actually martin clunes son because he was acting weird ,i cried at the end
the clue should of been in her sons computer history -sick
this is exactly why my son is never aloud to have the laptop in his room ,it has to be where i can see what he is doing

mynameis · 05/09/2012 07:52

I was really touched by the whole programme. It's not often i sit there thinking what would I do in that mothers situation

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Blondeshavemorefun · 05/09/2012 08:05

The computer history was sick - but I wrongly assumed that either stepson or mc used his computer

Sad that mc left her - guess as a parent you have to put yout children first - like to think he came back again

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noddyholder · 05/09/2012 08:08

I liked the no twist. Sometimes you trust your gut think the worst and are right

EMS23 · 05/09/2012 08:14

I liked no twist, it wasn't a whodunit, it was about how you deal with a situation like that and the various issues that come in to play when it happens. Great tv, IMO.

MrsRobertDuvallHasRosacea · 05/09/2012 08:53

Really enjoyed it....I thought it was step son.

I did cry when he held her hand at the end..my ds still does that at 13?

Where was it set? Somewhere in Hampshire?

springydaffs · 05/09/2012 09:12

It made it realistic that it was a straightforward unfolding of what could happen in a situation like that. It's hard to get your head around, but that scenario happens to some people.

IloveJudgeJudy · 05/09/2012 11:21

I watched it with DD (15). We both enjoyed it. She had said from the start it would be the son. I couldn't (didn't want to) believe that.

I, too, liked the fact that there was not really a twist. I have two teenage DSs. We discussed after the programme, briefly, what we parents would do. Asked the DC what we should do. I was very pleasantly surprised when the two that are at home atm both said that we parents should, of course, turn them in if they had committed such a crime (or really any crime).

It provoked a lot of thought in me while I was watching it. Would I be the same as Hermione and keep making excuses and believe the plausible stories that the son gave? He kept promising that he was telling the truth and his reasons for not telling the truth each time he was found out seemed very believable. I really searched my soul after watching it and found that I really didn't know what I would do, up until she really knew that he had done it. In that situation I know that I would immediately turn him in, but would I want to believe everything that he told me? In this house, if you absolutely say that you are telling the truth, then you are believed. That was what was difficult for Hermione, I think, the fact that he kept insisting that he absolutely had nothing to do with the girl's death.

I don't usually watch 2 or 3-part dramas, but I really enjoyed this one.

Clawdy · 05/09/2012 14:49

The finding of the girl's phone was the moment I lost all sympathy(and empathy)for her. There could have been vital clues and messages on it and she should have taken it to the police straight away. If the boy was innocent it could have cleared him,anyway. She didn't deserve MC to return!

purpleroses · 05/09/2012 16:04

It was set in Eastleigh, which is in Hamshire - they mentioned it at some point. Yes, it is very pretty down there.

valiumredhead · 05/09/2012 16:05

It was East Lee on the programme though Grin Looked lovely there!

Furball · 05/09/2012 16:16

I thought it was the step son who was setting up the son. and wanted MC to have taken him away, thinking his dd was out of danger but still be with the killer unknowingly. then see how he would deal with things when it was actually his flesh and blood that was guilty.

I did have tears in my eyes though at the very end.

ggirl · 05/09/2012 17:37

def not eastleigh hants, it was east lee somewhere

eastleigh hants is a dump

ClaraDeLaNoche · 05/09/2012 19:17

Glad it wasn't MC. Wouldn't there have been some other signs that the son could do that before?

Sad ending. Half expected her to pack him in the car and do a runner. Jail will finish him off.

LittleFrieda · 05/09/2012 19:24

It was set in Suffolk, I think. Which is why is was only an hour to Felixstowe.

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ClaraDeLaNoche · 05/09/2012 20:25

Am convinced Hermione is an MNer, she has that look about her. Not in a bad way Hermione!