MNPD assemble! It's Broadchurch time

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Notebooks at the ready We should have enough information at the end of the first episode to start cooking up some slightly implausible theories.

Good point about going upstairs - much more likely!

Yeah I thought DT was a good cop in the first one but it's starting to look like women are his weakness ie he feels responsible for them and that clouds his judgement. He took the blame for Sandbrook to cover for his wife. He's got Claire shacked up in a cottage because he feels responsible for her; he let Ellie see Joe after he'd been arrested, etc, etc.

Just marking place, and also commenting that that's extraordinary about the dates isn't it?

I was so sure it first aired in 2014 that I took for granted that Wikipedia was wrong (well, it happens) and searched back for one of the first series' threads, and it is indeed March 2013. That's just bizarre.

Yes it's all a bit fanciful, almost slightly Royston Vasey with all the shifty characters doing their shifty looks every episode. But I do like that it has lots of professional women in it. So upsides and all that.

Ooh could be right re the QC. Someone commented on her lovely view and she was a bit "meh"

I think Claire and Lee escaped in the Tardis...

I automatically thought sister because of the way they were ribbing each other.

Can someone please go back over DT's wife's part in the Sandbrook case for me? I don't think I've understood properly.

Wouldn't be a huge leap BOF

Wasn't his wife having an affair with a colleague of his and the crucial evidence (necklace) was taken from her car ( not sure why it was there though)

New to Broadchurch as Ididn't see the first series. Seems likely to me than OCs husband is not guilty and covering for their son? Was there anything is S1 to rule that out??

Him spending time in the caravan with murdered boys Dad would then be very significant ....

MmeMorrible- At the end of series one, they showed a re-enactment of Danny's death. Joe had been meeting Danny and was in love with him but never did anything sexual, just long creepy hugging sessions. Danny got sick of it and said he was going to tell and Joe had him by the throat to warn him not to tell. In doing that he strangled Danny and then put the body in a boat and left him on the beach.

Unless Series 2 goes back and effectively says the re-enactment wasn't real, then I take that to be what happened. Although with all the glaring loopholes so far, it wouldn't surprise me!

I watched the first series recently. I seem to recall that the autopsy showed that the strangulation was done by big hands i.e. a man's hands.

Finally caught up (and with the thread!!). Dodgy legal details aside - I can just about put up with those for the sake of drama, my main problem is that I can't really remember what happened in the first series! Clearly that is relevant with the suggestion that Miller's husband might not have done it. It becomes a whodunnit all over again, but I can't remember enough details. The boy and the dad (can't even remember any names) are meeting in Pauline Quirke's caravan - can't really remember what happened to her, but know she had Danny's skateboard. Can't remember the falling out between Danny and Olivia's son. Wasn't there something dodgy about the vicar'so computer in the first series. Then there is the Sandbrook case which actually don't know anything about. So as far as notebooks at the ready goes I'm a bit stuck - too many blanks for me in both storylines - and that's without the U feasible pregnancy timeline and unrealistic legal procedure. Will go and watch links to updates and see if that helps.

Unless Series 2 goes back and effectively says the re-enactment wasn't real, then I take that to be what happened.

Exactly! So many people are speculating that Joe is covering for his son, but the killing of Danny was presented to us as fact, so that can't be the case.

Unless all these people haven't seen series one, in which case, they are never going to fully understand what's going on in series two!

Oh no - video recap not working because I live in France

I get the feeling Joe didn't mean to kill Danny...and so they might be going for manslaughter, not murder. But he's a paramedic so presumably could have revived him? But yes, I'd say he definitely killed him. If the re-enactment didn't happen, then I'm losing faith in the whole thing.

But wasn't the re-enactment based on Joe's confession? Didn't we see it as he explained what happened? So it's only valid if he was telling the truth.

tbh I think plausibility parted company with Broadchurch round about the time Claire ran into the courtroom so anyone could have murdered Danny please don't let it be Rev Rory please don't let it be Rev Rory

If it's Rev Rory, he might need to strip to put on a paper forensic suit at the point of arrest.

But wasn't the re-enactment based on Joe's confession? Didn't we see it as he explained what happened? So it's only valid if he was telling the truth.

If they revoke the re-enactment I will be pissed off that a bloody good series jumped the shark.

It's all the wrong way round isn't it? If they wanted to have more than one series why didn't they do Sandbrook first, then Broadchurch, then this one - then we might have had a better chance of understanding it.

I really hope Sandbrook gets more interesting, because at the moment I couldn't give two hoots about that story, although I do quite fancy the husband.

Marking place as I've just binge watched series 1 and the first two episodes of series 2. Obsessed!

Claire is allowed into the court - the public are permitted to enter courtrooms. In most cases anyways.

I keep getting distracted by the uncanny resemblance the actor who plays Lee bears to the Alan Hansen of twenty years ago. Which rather supports my Tardis theory...

I agree. I hate it when tv series turn flashbacks into 'just one of the scenarios'

If they do change it I shall be writing a stern letter to someone.

It'll lose all credibility if Joe turns out to be innocent, I think.

Also finding it hard to care about the Sandbrook story line or the characters involved. Claire is not particularly likeable. Neither is her husband.