Anyone going to watch the 7.39 tonight?

[Lighthousekeeping]

I love David Morrissey. My god there's so much on telly tonight I'm beside myself!

Actually, I didn't think Olivia Colman was very good in this particular drama, quite wooden in spite of the script she had to follow.

I would have preferred an ending where after DM's smug grin we saw his wife in bed with an young tanned clean shaven younger man. That'd wipe the grin off the smiling gits face.

(In RL the sequel would be DM having the grin then actively seeking a replacement for SS as he got away with it last time so why not?)

I enjoyed it. But wanted SS and DM to stay together. Also for OC to find happiness. The last 30 seconds was rubbish.

I thought it was really good. None of the potential outcomes were going to satisfy everyone, but the outcome wasn't the point I don't think - it was a drama of the process leading up to it, which I thought was fine. I don't have any RL experience of adultery to draw on but seen what happens to other people.

The writer described it as a 'love story'. Need to disagree. It was a nightmare.

Well my whole enjoyment of that was marred by DM being all beardy. Have him washed, shaved and brought to my tent.

It was always on the cards that Lee Evans, oops I mean Sean Maguire's character would have that explosive temper. He seemed very intense and controlling.

What age were the two main characters supposed to be?

SS was 26, DM was approx 45?

No I think she meant to be older than that - she said she got married in the 90s to a DJ when she was 26.

ah I thought she said she was 26 now, which I would have disputed, but not to her face obv.

I think Olivia Coleman is a great character, though after watching this I'm beginning to wonder if she is getting too comfortable playing the part of the downtrodden victim.

I still think of her as Our Antony's girlfriend in The Royle Family.

Mean to say she is a great actor!

Sheridan Smith that is, not OC.

Gah, x-posts.

Yes I agree. It would be good to se OC play a driven, successful career woman with a delicious toy boy and no domestic woes.

I liked her in Rev actually.

I'm sure the cottage was used in Atonement, in the photo. It is also a Windows screensaver pic,

I'm just about to watch it with a glass of wine. Is is a croc of shite? I hope not.

I thought the ending was predictable but it was well acted.
My current husband and I both left other partners to be together so I maybe have more sympathy for people who have affairs than many here. We live too long and expect to be happily married to one person for too long.
Olivia Coleman has always seemed a bit mumsy and wet in the programmes I've seen her in (this and Green wing) so I'm surprised she has that many fans. I don't know what I'd have done in her position, but I don't think having an affair necessarily means a marriage is irretrievably over, although I don't think people who are happily married have affairs either.
If my husband had an affair and then regretted it and wanted us to be together again I'd have to be sure he meant it and wasn't just looking for the comfortable option, I got the feeling DM wanted to be living with his kids more than his wife who he'd grown bored of and couldn't / didn't want to talk to any more, so in this story think the wife may have been better without him.
I'm not sure affairs "destroy" lives, they just destroy the fantasy of the life people thought they had and expose the reality. If my husband no longer wants to be with me I'd rather he left than stayed and played happy families. Whether he left me before or after a brief affair with someone seems academic. Having long affairs whilst married is horrible, I have more sympathy for serial monogomists.
Staying with someone you are bored of and feeling imprisoned and wishing your life was different seems a miserable way to live your life.

I didn't get the impression he was fed up with his wife as such, he did love her, but I think he was unhappy in his job, in a rut and having a touch of the old midlife crisis.

I don't think I'd ever be able to get over it if my DH had an affair. Hope I never have to find out.

What irritated me was that he never seemed to be that sorry for the affair, I would understand OC taking him back if he was begging for forgiveness, but he was really uncontrite.

The cottage at the end is at Seaford head, the beach is Cuckmere Haven and the cliffs in the background are the Seven Sisters. And yes the same location was used in Atonement.

They really shouldn't have used somewhere so recognisable, removed whatever vestiges of believability were still left by that point, which is a shame as it started so promisingly.

I agree Ida - it would have been nice to see some remorse from him at the end rather than that rather odd smile. and to see him actually apologise properly to OC rather than that half-arsed self-justifying apology we saw him deliver.

Yes I must admit as soon as he said his parents had a cottage and they went to that one I just thought ' oh bog off! As if his parents have got that bloody cottage!

ShoeWhore - Also his 'no regrets' thing - he should regret breaking the hearts of his wife & kids. I can't believe how cross I was about this show last night. I was ranting to DH who hadn't watched it.

It would have been much better at the end if they had been cleverer with the OC character. Instead of it all being magically better with the dear little wifey smiling at him lovingly over the Weetabix, they should have cut to showing her in another room, struggling with the reality of forgiving and forgetting.