The Driver BBC1

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Anyone see this? I thought it was entertaining and will be tuning in again next Tuesday.

Not as good as Sunshine Valley (?right name - but the one about the yorkshire kidnapping) - but still pretty good. I like David Morrissey.

I enjoyed it!

I'm sure some of it was filmed in London as I kept seeing bits I recognised. I also saw I sign for the imperial war museum, is there one in Manchester too?

Wrt his house I presumed they had bought years ago before house prices rocketed, it wasn't that big was it, it was a big family home I thought not palatial.

LOVED the teen daughter having a tantrum,Dh and I looked at each other and said 'the writer obviously has a teen'

Mainly filmed in Manchester; there is an Imperial War Museum there.

Ah right, thanks

Yes the teen daughter was well drawn. Hideous and appalling one minute, sweet and funny the next. I didn't really get the boyfriend thing though. Would any teenage boy be openly rude and mocking when alone in a car with his girlfriends dad? Surely not. Even if it's only for diplomatic purposes, I'd have expected 'yes Mrs Paterson, no Mrs Paterson' a la Kevin the teenager.

Actually my niece brought a similar boy home, my sister in law tore a strip off him!

Can't wait for the next one. Universal raves in the papers. Also my SIL bonded over D Morrissey appreciation! That rarely happens.

really enjoyed it too.

Could have sworn that was the Hammersmith flyover though - where the police pulled him over.

It was driving me mad where I recognised the actress who played his wife from. Gosford park!

I'm certain it was filmed in London too!

Oh yes, THAT'S where the wife is from! Thanks for that, it was bugging me

Who's watching tonight ?

I will be

I'm scared to watch...what's going to happen to the guy they shoved in the boot?....seemed brutal and I'm a wuss.

It's very definitely filmed in Manchester, where they pulled him over is an old rd near the mancunian way where they built a skate park and where he got out of the car to look at the guns was under the metro bridge in castlefield near the science museum, not everything is filmed in that there London

The shooting scene was so scary.

What's happening? I've sky plussed it. But i need to know - does the boot person get out alive?

It's very very grim. I can't possibly say.

Oh .

I watched David Morrissey on The One Show-it was lovely to see him so smiley and laughing, the characters he plays are so tortured and depressive.

I would spoil it for you . I'm going to have to watch Peppa pig or something before bed

I don't think I can watch it if it's that grim

Christ my nerves are shredded! Even DP was gripped and scared.

Although for light relief, he noted that Mrs Morrissey looked a bit like Iggy Pop when she got angry.

I think she's going to get angrier :(

Found tonight's episode far too violent - gratuitously so. We didn't need to see all that gleeful head-kicking, it was tense and grim enough without that. Not sure I'll watch next week.

I can't get Mrs Morrissey out of my head from Lark Rise to Candleford!

Re location, yes, very definitely filmed in Manchester. Agree with senojeel, the 'flyover' was the Mancunian Way, plenty of shots of the top of it too and I think the M62 going into Eccles as well as loads of shots of very recognisable Manchester landmarks.

And yes, there is an Imperial War Museum in Manchester.

I had to turn it off last night. DS born on Saturday and that violence in the midst of baby blues finished me off!