Ordinary Lies ... BBC1 9PM

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I think I'll give this a go .. anyone else??

Totally agree Boswell - hope there's a 2nd series

Have watched last nights now

Too many loose ends - tho guess that's for s2

2.Mk will go and see her friend

1. What happened to beaten man and did the affair destro their marriage
2. Will mechanic get done for rape

5 mc gambling debt will be found out 6 will they get back together or both marriages split

Bearded bloke hubby beating wife will be found out

What a shithead of a husband Dave is. I liked Beth but she really needs to stand up to him and just lose him. He's done enough damage.

I doubt there'll be a Season 2. It's left for us to speculate about what happens next.

Oh I really hope there's a second series. I absolutely loved this!

I don't like speculating. I like loose ends tied up

Hope there is a s2

I like that the show always gets me thinking "what would I do?"
Like the first episode what would I do if my DH told his colleagues I had died? Episode 5, what would I do if DH told me had a son he'd never told me about? Episode 6, what would I do if missing DH returned a different man and I'd fallen in love with someone else?

There's also enough loose ends to keep it going. For example, lady with red hair who slept with Jason Manford what's her story? The bloke suffering DV? And Marianne who fancied Dave?

Am not sure that it would return with all of the cast though.

I thought the last episode was the best. Loved the series and can't wait for the next one

It didn't tie up enough for me, think I maybe missed a bit when the relationship between the dark skinned woman and missing man was revealed. That never really made sense to me. It was realistic that after a few months with ambitious Mike run away from it all husband was a let down.
The gambling double life episode annoyed me. Believable if he didn't live with her but I couldn't live with a man and not know the details of his finances and it annoys me that tellyland is full of women who don't bother their pretty little heads with looking at their partners finances. Worse still when they are married and have joint assets that could be removed by debt collectors.

But that happens in RL over and over again, you only have to look at the relationship board on here to know that.

The dark haired woman liked the missing husband and started chasing him, the husband just felt it was another added pressure that he had to run from.

I did think when Mike's wife turned up crying over him and not letting him go even when he's strayed and isn't loyal to her - that the women in the show are pathetic, but then I remembered that all the men in the show are pathetic too!

I thought she was furious not pathetic.

I honestly thought furious & pathetic. Who wants a man that very clearly doesn't want them & who uses her dad to keep such a man?? Totally pathetic if you ask me.

I completely disagree with cheating but actually felt for him with a wife like that who simply refuses to acknowledge what's happening under her nose (ie he's a shit & doesn't love her!) & threatens him to keep him married. Could you imagine if the genders were reversed in that situation??!!!

I expect she wanted her family to stay together, probably for the sake of her children more than anything else.

The wife was very dim. She never noticed the money going out to pay for the secret son for years.

Loved this, finally saw the last episode today. Nicely set up for S2

Love a bit of Max Beasley too

Me too Sleepy, did you see him in Bodies? AND he plays the drums

I only saw half the series, but thought it was great. Very much along the lines of Clocking Off.

The fact that not everything gets explained and loose ends don't always get tied up makes it more realistic. Btw I know someone in RL who had no idea about her DH's finances. Couples don't always have joint bank accounts and who's to say he didn't have a separate account he paid for the child through?

I'm watching this now. Beth is supposed to be in Margate but has just driven down the Coast Road in Southport (Merseyside). Did they run out of budget to actually film down south?!