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BROADCHURCH mon 9pm itv

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Blondeshavemorefun · 02/03/2013 12:31

sexy david tennant 'blonde drools' plays a police officer who investigate a childs body found on the beach :(

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LIZS · 13/03/2013 14:34

Am watching on itv player , anyone else find the relentless beat on the music annoying ?

Jux · 13/03/2013 14:45

Clawdy, yes holiday makers would ask where they could get drugs. Not quite as obviously as "where can I score some decent cocaine round here?" but there's asking and then there's asking.

In small towns where everyone knows everyone, blind eyes are turned to the actual age of paperboys etc. until the eyes are forced open. Often, things are dressed up a bit as helping out a friend of the family and so on.

Clawdy · 13/03/2013 16:47

Still think nine and a half might have been considered a bit young!! (The papershop guy said he'd been doing it for 18 months.) Thought the police may have commented on it during the investigation at least. Doesn't ring true to me.

LIZS · 13/03/2013 16:51

Why was the picture in the newspaper shop window of Danny with an egg and spoon as if taken on sports day , ie the day after he went missing ? I didn't notice he'd done the paper round that long , thought it was the sea cadets he'd attended "on and off" for that time which is more logical if he were almost 12.

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 13/03/2013 17:54

Missed part one, saw part two, now going to watch first! Kept thinking I know that vicar! Rory of course.

Thought they did the mum at the supermarket sequence very well, other people goggling but trying not to. Sad.

Always like Olivia Colman and Pauline Quirke. Like DT as an actor but never quite got the whole 'isn't he sexy' thing, like him better more dishevelled in this.

MrsSalvoMontalbano · 13/03/2013 19:37

*RedPencils& Grin at Rory the vicar!

cornypony · 13/03/2013 19:41

What has the dad been in before? It's really annoying me.

KurriKurri · 13/03/2013 19:50

two words corny - Garrow's Law

BOF · 13/03/2013 19:56

Really? I could have sworn he wallpapered my mum's hall, stairs and landing.

cornypony · 13/03/2013 20:33

I've never seen Garrow's law...he just looks so familiar!

KurriKurri · 13/03/2013 20:39

Oh Confused - eight words then - he wallpapered BOF's Mum's hall stairs and landing. Grin

RustyBear · 13/03/2013 21:34

For Corny

Jux · 13/03/2013 22:22

Much more fanciable in GL! Must have been the wig and the fire of righteous indignation in his eyes Grin

giraffesCantDateDucks · 13/03/2013 22:22

is it Monday yet?

squeakytoy · 13/03/2013 22:41

Olivia Colemans accent is dreadful, it keeps slipping in and out of the local dialect (which isnt particularly local for that area anyway!).

Other than that, it is very gripping.

LittlePushka · 13/03/2013 22:52

I find the acting by the childs mother so incredibly good that when I see see her I am moved to silently weep for a boy I have never met, whose voice I have never heard who is not even her real son and who is not actually dead.

Now that IS seriously good acting i'd say !!

Arcadie · 13/03/2013 23:01

Ooooh Rusty that IMDB link notes that he's in episodes 1-5 NOT 6 & 7 and then back in ep8! What insight does THAT give us then people?

cornypony · 14/03/2013 02:51

ah so he was Joseph in the Nativity thingy. knew I'd seen him before. Thanks Rusty you've put my mind at rest!

According to wiki he was a labourer, so that's probably when he wallpapered BOF'S Mum's house then.

cornypony · 14/03/2013 02:52

Yes I end up quietly sobbing when the boy's mother is on screen as well - she's amazing.

MortifiedAdams · 14/03/2013 07:53

I think a major aspect of the show will be the revelation that everyone in Ellies life osnt quite as perfect as they seem. She spends a lot of time saying "theyre not that type of person/family" when its begeinning to reveal that they are. She us going to be utterly shocked.

LIZS · 14/03/2013 08:17

What sort of a place is Broadchurch though ? I know DT was told many people hadn't ever travelled more than 50 miles away but are we really supposed to accept that a local hack (who must have trained elsewhere) and a ds are so parochial and naïve as to be shocked by the thought of this happening ? What of the interlopers (hotel owner, vicar) is there suspicion just because they are not local ?

LittlePushka · 14/03/2013 08:33

MortifiedAdams - do you thinkshe is the one having the affair with Danny's dad?

Fiderer · 14/03/2013 08:37

Don't think the hack was shocked, v clinically seeing it as a way to further his career. Ellie knew Danny, bound to make her more shocked at his death.

I agree about Ellie getting a shock re the family. I'm a bit suspicious of Danny's mum. Whether or not it's guilt at the pg or because she thinks/knows that something she did was partly to blame for his death, there's something there.

MortifiedAdams · 14/03/2013 08:42

No...I think she is a genuinely innocent and too nic person, whos opinion and outlook on the village is about to be shattered.

I wouldnt be surprised if her dh was cheating though, just to add more trauna to her life.

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 14/03/2013 08:57

A police officer knows about crime but hard not to feel shocked when something this serious happens (a) on your patch and (b) to someone you know. Especially if you have a son the same age and best friend of the victim?

If the perp is the most unlikely character we've met it'll be the sunny hotel manager .

Wonder what DT's last case (Sandbrook?) was about? Why does the out of town reporter track him?

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