The Escape Artist - BBC1

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Seems quite creepy but in a good way.

Oh I'm the same,I can't enjoy it at all if they get such basic things wrong!

David Tennant is looking really skeletal isn't he?

And pale. And why did he dye his hair that odd colour? Just no, David. No.

Oh was it his hair that was odd? He looks like he needs a good meal, considering telly puts about a stone on you he must be like a xmas tree fairy!

Oh do bore us with the legal gaffs please

I'm confused by (one of the many) plot 'holes' - what happened to Tara. One minute she was chasing them down in a shopping centre and next she disappeared. The portrayal of women in general was depressing:

Maggie and Tara - cold 'legal eagles' who aren't quite as clever as David but foolishly think they are

David's Mum - who barely said a word but became an accessory to murder

Kate - ended up just about in pieces all over the floor. Enough said.

The alibi woman whose name I can't remember- totally cowed, totally exploited.

I don't think she was an accessory to murder,I presumed he just used her prescription for an epi pen, which in itself is another flaw as we have to practically beg on bended knee for them!

I wouldn't want to go on to court and claim I knew nothing about my son, with who I was living, nicking my epi-pen or prescription in order to murder the man who slaughtered my daughter-in-law and unborn grandchild, traumatised my grandson and devastated my son. Not unless I had Maggie or Will defending me - in which case I'd wear a t-shirt which said ' The bastard had it coming' and still expect an aquittal

Kielder forest when I last knew anything was in Northumberland so if he killed Foyle there, the trial would surely have been Under English Law

I thought it was in Scotland and he went there deliberately to get that third available verdict "unproven"

Nope 6 I just looked at a map!

Dear lord save us from a second series.

Kielder is in Northumberland mostly but there are little bits which are just over the official border. It's complicated because there is a lot of woodland adjoining Keilder on the Scottish side which is officially Kershope wood but is often known as Keilder. Certainly a bit dodgy knowing which side of the border you were actually on when among all those trees!

- member I don't understand why they didn't just mention an obviously Scottish locality.

So all in all this series was badly researched for law, medical facts and geography!

I've just watched the last part of this and I agree- Completely implausible that any of that would have happened. Also agree about the female lawyers. All Tara and Maggie seemed to portray about female lawyers was that they were unable to show compassion and be successful, like the men! The male lawyers were doing what they could to help but they seemed to relish getting one over on him. Why? Why was Maggie so devastated at the end that Foyle had been cremated? Because someone she knew, a supposed friend may not go to prison for the rest of his life? Especially in those circumstances? Just because it was more important for her to get one over on him? It was all ridiculous!

I thought Maggie's gift was her favourite tea,too. But she whispered "How did he know?" and as Foyle had seen and commented on her choice of tea that didn't make sense? Found the use of all those"accomplices" near the end very confusing too. But have to say I was gripped throughout.

I thought it was tea, too. It looked like a Harrogate tea tin, if I recall correctly.

I did enjoy this drama (as I enjoy anything with my favourite David in it - SDTG does stand for StayingDavidTennantsGirl, after all ), but the plot was full of holes.

whatever it was that somebody knew, i'd have been more worried that it got in to her apartment, rather than whatever it was he somehow knew

She just wanted to be cleverer. Him mentioning cremation spoilt that though it was plainly absurd. How could he have known that would happen, let alone influence it.

I don't think he either knew it would happen or influenced it. However, he would probably have known that Foyle had been cremated because someone would have been pestering the lawyers for the body to be released for that purpose - it wouldn't be released till the defence lawyers agreed in case they wanted the post mortem checked

He banked on the fact that it would never occur to anyone to check the injection site. When Sophie came up with her triumphant piece of potential evidence, he realised it would get her nowhere because another post mortem would be impossible. But I think that was sheer good luck for him - the escape artist winning again.

It was obviously a specific tea that she drinks. Doyle asked her and she just said "my tea", it was obviously a THE brand of tea.

What I don't get is how Will knew Foyle was up their on his Jollys at all .

There not their

Didn't his dodgy mate put some tracking thing in Foyles clothes when he was at the climbing walll? Just have to hope he wears the same pants!

I thought the dodgy guy hacked into Doyle's computer - he said "Ben Alludin" (sp? Can't remember the exact name) and you were supposed to think it was a person but it was the name of the mountain.

I thought the guy at the climbing wall had somehow got Foyle's bank card number - 4 lots of 4 numbers? - so they could trace his address - i.e. the place in the forest. Otherwise it's all far too much of a 'coincidence'. Still not convinced by the whole spotting him in a pub part of the story. And how come the pub had a loo big enough for your average shopping centre?!

DH (medical type) said they'd never cremate a murder victim, far too much chance for need for a second post-mortem.

Oh and the tea looked like a Fortnum and Mason tin to me!

I did thoroughly enjoy it though. I would love to see a series - Will, the barrister who got away with murder, brilliant . Also I am mad about DT now.

So it appears the true escape artist was the story, in that it escaped having a plausible plot.

I'm just disappointed I didn't know when they were filming this...the beach scenes are very very local to me!