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.

They did try and keep it real by bringing her a cushion to sit on

The Latimers have already given evidence so they can watch the rest of the trial. .

So Welsh woman was having an affair with husband of grim woman pictured looking out of the window or grim woman was having an affair with the man who spends his days hammering lone posts into great fields?

I haven't RTT.

Basically we are all going to guess so many different possibilities and then be really annoyed when one of them turns out to be right.

Police woman's older son seems like a bit of a git mind...

It wasn't Claire looking out the window with the two girls btw, must have been one of their mothers.

I'm now only watching it for the locations as lots of them are familiar (PIL live in Dorset). The storyline is confusing and not that gripping.

It is the most awful lot of tosh. Such a disappointment really.

What's with Judge Meera? She seems to be blatantly taking the defence position - no matter how outrageous it is. What was with the affair bollocks - all she had was two hours on a very emotional day, in the hotel room of her boss and colleague. Hardly 'evidence' of anything.

Beth's baby took ages to come considering her contractions were 40 seconds apart well before Mark got home.

Becca and the journos were hardly seen - think there's a lot on the cutting room floor.

I don't give a shit about Jocelyn's dodgy eyes, money problems and infirm ma. Nor do I care about Son of barrister unjustly doing time. Can't believe those stories were given airtime when people who actually have some story to tell are barely seen -vicar, Tom, Becca, Nigel for example.

Sandbrook:
Gwen was having affair with someone, she drugged the rolly-smoking stake-hammerer whilst she was off out shagging her fancy man; older cousin from next door sees something and threatens to tell stake-hammerer, she gets done away with and little girl next door sees - big kerfuffle and they have to silence the little girl too. Fancy man is mystery bluebell-poster.

Broadchurch Court Case:
Just there as a 'tense' and familiar filler piece, to keep a tenuous link with all characters - Joe dunnit, justice will prevail and the broadchurch murderer will face his just desserts at the same time as Gwen.

That's my verdict!

All seems a bit wishy washy but I've started so I'll finish watching it.

When Lee gave DT all the evidence he had collected, did anyone else notice the pic of the 2 brothers that he asked him to investigate? One of them looked like a familiar actor. Does this more characters are going to be put into the mix for the Sandbrook case?

Thought this week's slightly better in that it focussed on fewer characters. However I'm not sure I can really care about the legal eagles' families and circumstances at the expense of a real plot. How come hardy never goes near a police station , is he suspended ? Presumably Miller was demoted for giving her h a kicking .

For a hot shot lawyer, Charlotte Rampling is pretty bloody useless. She doesn't object to a clearly outrageous line of questioning by the defence.

Why is Ellie being called as a prosecution witness anyway? Charlotte Rampling didn't want to call her, and then the judge forced her to call her, which doesn't make sense (or have I missed something?)

I also find it difficult to believe that Mark and Beth, after that big speech about doing a better job with this new baby, then decided to leave it with their daughter while they went into court. When you have a new baby you don't want to take your eyes off it for a second. That's aside from whether Beth would have been physically up to it.

It looks to me as if Lee was having an affair with the older of the two girls who went missing.

It's nonsense but I am enjoying it, for some reason.

I think I just want to see how on earth they pull it all together they might just not manage-

I thought she copied a phone number, maybe Lee's?

" Fancy man is mystery bluebell-poster."

fancy man is man next door? father of younger kid?

Yes Fanjo!

Dad next door is mystery bluebell poster.

Gwen is shagging the dad from next door (Lee named him as having made a pass at older girl too); older girl finds out and threatens to tell Lee (coz she fancies him). Older girl is 'silenced' (maybe by accident, rather than pre-meditated) and younger girl stumbled on it somehow - she is then killed, too (Gwen used her & Lee's car for all this, thus explaining the locket being there).

Have I missed something? Who on earth is Gwen?

probably will carry on watching till the end but i though the first episode of the second series was fab, gone a bit downhill since then.

when you say gwen, do you mean claire?

Gwen was another character she played? in torchwood? just aguess

actress is Eve Myles, played Gwen in Torchwood. Is now Claire.

I don't care how implausible it is - I just like watching OC

I saw OC at Center Parcs last half term. I bet she's a Mumsnetter. She's great.

Yes, Clare (sorry )

Thanks. I didn't watch Torchwood.

She'll always be Gwen to me. Same as Reverend Rory.

OC didn't say Bertie btw. She said that Tom was thirteen and so big (or something like that, just a comment on how fast her much missed son is growing up) and Fred who is 2 or 3 or 8 or 97. Nobody knows really as he's conveniently never there.

It's all fallen apart rather.

She said Fred who's nearly 2 Showy

I know Chuck.

Somebody upthread thought she called her child Bertie and I was pointing out that what she actually said was something like (can't remember the exact words) "Tom who is 13 and so big and Fred who is 2".

The 'and so big' (or whatever her phrase was), might have sounded like Bertie as it's all a bit mumbly. The 3 or 8 or 97 was me being sarcastic about Fred's disappearance in recent episodes.