From Darkness

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Can't see a thread for this which started last night on BBC one , 9pm. I haven't seen the actress who plays Claire Church, the ex detective before, but she was in the Virgin Queen and Shameless. Set in Manchester and West coast of Scotland.
I thought it was based on a book ( possibly Nicci French or an author like that) but its not. Slow start, but the detective leading the investigations now was quite handsome and there is history between the two of them. The scenery for the west coast of Scotland was stunning.
Trouble is, I just felt it was cobbled together from other thrillers.

Called it!

That was predictable.

I am enjoying Unforgotten and River much more!

I'm yet to watch River. Bloody Eastenders are probably more entertaining than this tripe.

I'm off to stare blankly into the mirror and wonder wtf I gave that shite 4 hours of my life.

What a shite ending.

I'm so fucked off I watched this heap of steaming woman hating bollocks.

I'd have been happier watching Friends for the 1000th time.

I demand 4 hours of my life back! That was absolutely dreadful. So dull. So boring. So moody. So boring. So angsty. So boring.

Oh dear. I was right about the journalist but wrong about everything else. Such is life.

So who killed Agata then? Who was supposed to get killed instead of Lucy?

It didn't really go anywhere (apart from teleporting from far-flung Scottish islands to Manchester) and I just didn't buy Lucy's motivation. Could have been so much more interesting. And the ending: as if.

At least it was an ending but it all got a bit silly. The blonde cop wandering around nutty killer dog man's house alone, Nutty Lucy being welcomed into a cop's house by his wife alone with her small child, copper bloke going round the back of the house alone whilst all the armed police were round the front. Lucy being that upset about a policewoman ignoring her like all the others seemed OTT as well and didn't explain why she'd started killing random people.
At least the blonde copper has something to be miserable about, or was her past misery all about the abortion which women are meant to be forever guilty about the evil tarts?
I presumed something awful had been doneto her by the strangling bloke with all her angst over the photos, but she had a fling, chose to have an early abortion and ignored Lucy like everyone else.

Eurgh, that is all.

I think all crime series should have a bit at the end like Poirot, Columbo or Death in Paradise where the policeman slowly explains to everyone who killed who and why. I don't get why dog man stopped killing at a particular time and why Lucy then started when she did. It was maybe explained in a throw away line several weeks ago but explaining it all for people who missed a bit is never a bad move in my opinion. Modern series drag out finding the killer for too long and then rush the ending and don't explain it all.

Started watching late but how nice to fast forward. Groaning all the way through, dear me.

Christ, that was poor. I keep thinking have I missed a big chunk but no. It's like the writers gave up half way through and just decided to forget about all previous info and finish it up before anyone actually expired through boredom. It takes some very bad writing to make Anne-Marie Duff look mediocre but at least they succeeded in something.

Lucy killed Agata - that was a copycat killing. I think dog man stopped killing after his own mother (who tried to abort him) died perhaps. Who knows. It was written by a woman - Katie Baxendale.

Well Claire is going to have a whole load more guilt to deal with now.

Blimey Claire and Lucy were both unhinged.

I agree with 2rebecca really slow to get going and then really rushed!

Anyone else reckon the writers are hoping for another series?! Quite a few subtle loose ends, and they probably want to drag out how Claire gets away with shooting Lucy and her downward spiral of yet more guilt!

The writers don't deserve another series. This one was bad enough.

So why did Lucy have Megan's photo? Whay was the point in that?

Well, I also watched it on iplayer (it clashes with Downton Abbey) but never really got invested in it. The final episode was worse than the previous 3 and now I am thinking what I could have done with those 4 hours. So many aspects of it just didn't make sense.

Ah Well, River tomorrow and Unforgotten on Thursday. The week will get better!

Lucy as a previously well adjusted young woman turning serial killer years after an unpleasant event for no particular reason made no sense.
Many serial killers have personality disorders. you don't just suddenly develop a personality disorder out of the blue when you are in your thirties and start cold bloodedly bumping people off.
Post traumatic stress disorder doesn't make you a serial killer which I think is what the writer was implying.

Yup, was all a bit preposterous. Why did the original killer just stop?

It all looked so promising to start with, I have definitely compared it unfavourably to other crime series, such as RIver and Unforgotten.

I stuck with it, but it was very very disappointing. Every cliché in the book seemed to have been thrown at it. It strained credibility, at best. And is it really possible to leave the Outer Hebrides in the morning and be in the middle of Manchester by 2 p.m.?

2rebecca - Yes you're right. Lucy can't have just turned psychopathic overnight, and yes PTSD is basically high anxiety and doesn't make you a murderer. You have to have the psychopathic personality to be a serial killer.