Broadchurch thread 2- the one where everyone in MNPD requests a transfer to the traffic division

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Thread number one.

So are we all still watching, despite the mumbling, bad writing and inaccuracies?

I'm not sure what ClaireGwen is up to, but they've written her to like kinky sex which in telly land means she's a bad un.

Last night's highlight for me was DH's genuine confusion over whether subtitles were for the hearing impaired or vision impaired (he may have had a couple of beers). Also sweaty Lee hammering in fence posts.

Has that junior solicitor fella been in something on CBBC?

When does The Missing season 2 start?

OC's son is horrible. He makes my skin crawl. Why is he so Nasty and detached. There's more to come out about him. Deleting things off computers and phones, one minute saying he was Danny's friend, the minute they weren't best friends.

Spoiler alert!!

Just saw the trailer for next weeks episode which seems to show Tom giving evidence, OC shouting at Claire/Gwen that's she's been playing them all and separate scene of Claire/Gwen alone and losing it in a fit of rage!!

I'm trying to remember what happened with Tom in series one. There was the deleting of texts and the smashing of the laptop (witnessed by Rev Rory who I think then took possession of the laptop and passed it onto the police?). I wouldn't be surprised if more came out about him and Danny, but I think the main crux of their falling out was Danny telling Tom "We aren't friends anymore; I have a new friend (aka your dad who is grooming me)". And then, I think Tom said something in a text/email wishing Danny dead? So of course when Danny died, Tom freaked out.

Seaoflove that's pretty much what I remember.

The actor playing Tom is the same one that was on Silent Witness about 3 weeks ago - he was the baddie!

I think that's why I don't like him Pinkje - I can't help but think of him as that character.

Hello, just dropping in now as I'm getting totally lost and hoping you'll keep me right for the last few episodes!

For what it's worth I think Tom is definitely a bad un and will turn out to be root of it all. Poor OC will be heartbroken and end up redeeming herself by solving Sandbrook, curing DT and running off to somewhere wholly more toddler friendly to live happily ever after. ignores 1m other red herring and plot twists

I just think if Jack Dee when I see Tom.

He was probably out that night if his dad was out and OC was out of it on sleeping pills. Oh I'm so confused!!

What's the £500 under the bed all about? Why was he bashing up the laptop? He looks disturbed. I think it's him on the cliff with the red diesel.

Didn't Joe give Danny the £500? It was one of the ways he was being groomed.

I thought Tom smashed the laptop to hide any evidence of sending Danny messages wishing him dead?

Thanks, when did we find out joe had given danny the £500? I totally missed that.

It was revealed in Joe's confession AnnieHoo.

I think I read somewhere that there's going to be a series 3 so no running off to a happy place for OC and baby Fred. But they'll have to find a miracle cure for Hardy because not to sound heartless his illness/condition is getting really tedious!

Oh no, they're going to drag this out to be ludicrous and spoil it aren't they!

So GwenClaire is not with StalkerBloke? I thought that was her husband.

He is her husband but she was also shagging Ricky next door.

better not be a s3, coz will mean nothing is resolved in next 3 episodes

Lord no, please no S3.

S1 was whodunit. Joe.

S2 was we know whodunit (Joe) and we see how hard it is to get a conviction. Cos Joe pleaded not guilty and the network wanted a second series.

And we have a new whodunit in Sandbrook (foreshadowed in S1). S2 should end with Joe being convicted and us finding out whodunit in Sandbrook. Ellie gets Tom back and Hardy gets a pacemaker and a new post somewhere far away from cliffs.

The End. No more bluebells.

I read recently (on here, I think) that it was conceived as a trilogy. Which surprised me, because nothing has ever seemed quite so much like a hastily-cobbled-together mess than Broadchurch 2.

I find it confusing because its trying to run two stories concurrently.

I've been thinking about this and why people are let down by some drama serials, and have come to the concluusion that we want (need) a truly viable narrative, concise, believable and accurate to the point of being a parallel world just like our own. We grasp at and crave the suspension of disbelief that it offers. We don't want to be told something ridiculous, something unlikely or deliberately obtuse. We want the pieces of a real, or could be real, puzzle, that we can work on in between episodes and have an actual endpoint and answer to aim for. It needs to make sense.
Don't keep moving the goalposts. Give us a crossword, a sudoku ...something finite and logical so we can enter into the race knowing there is a truth which will make us go, 'ahhh...I see..!.' waiting for us at the finish line.

Broadchurch is good example of why it's better to quite while you're ahead. If they'd stopped after series on everyone would have recalled how marvellous that series was (which it was - though I found the conclusion a bit rubbish). I fear the same could be about to happen with The Missing - which was a cracking series and had us all glued to our TVs and to the thread. Rushing back with a hastily cobbled together follow-up almost taints the memory of the excellent first series (I'm still watching though!)