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.

Why would you want someone who hasn't practised in three years?

It's the CPS that engages the prosecution barrister, isn't it? Not the victim's family.

Didn't expect to be hooked this quickly.

I watched the first series and I'm still confused

I can't remember what Sandbrook was about??

Bloody ad breaks!

DT took the blame for the last case collapsing, it was the fault of the female DS on the case who happened to be his wife.
It's all coming back now...

Ooh it's very good!

So, this is going to be about DT's failed case he is racked with guilt about? And Claire was a witness who is terrified because the guilty man went free?

I don't understand why the family need a barrister either Bof
Did we ever find out at the end of the last one what is wrong with David Tennant?
It is very intriguing so far. I felt like there was a strange undercurrent between the Vicar and Joe.
Almost takes the pain out of back to work having Broadchurch back!

A-ha, now it all becomes clear...

His health is dodgy due to stress, I think. And guilt at failing Claire.

Jesus wept! Do the writers know nothing about how the criminal justice system works? The victim's family have no rights to choose a Prosecution barrister. The scenes of them on the beach begging her to tske the case are ludicrous! This series is wildly over dramatic IMO. Shame...

Danny's dad is gaming with Olivia Coleman's estranged son, who was pals with Danny.

Oh, I see... Kind of.

This is really pissing me off, I used to work for the witness service and victims could never understand why they didn't have their own lawyer. This isn't the American system, a case is prosecuted on behalf of the state NOT the victims. Hate TV shows that misrepresent this as it gives victims of crime a wrong impression of what happens and only adds to their sense of injustice.

Oooh look, the two opposing barristers on the beach. I sense a third series coming up with a mistrial because they are found to have colluded

Can barristers pick their cases if they are prosecuting? Or defend in, come to that?

Are Mark and Danny's son in the caravan where Pauline Quirke's character lived?

I thought it was basically a queue system?

ALSO a Prosecution barrister would NOT be able to visit a victim's family in their home! FFS. I don't think I will be able to watch this. I was so looking forward to it as well.

I call bullshit on the exhumation too.

Danny's dad is a fucking liability too. And he was a weasel in The Honorable Woman as well.

Surely they would tell the family if they were going to exhume Danny's body??

Prosecution barristers are employed by the Crown Prosecution Service ( not victims) and are not allowed to meet with victims or witnesses before trial. It's a totally different system to the USA.