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Dr Foster, the final episode, can't wait..

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ellenanora5 · 06/10/2015 23:34

First thread nearly full so starting this one for tomorrow night Smile

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Elendon · 07/10/2015 23:23

Zebra, it got Gemma the house and repayment of her savings.

sadwidow28 · 07/10/2015 23:24

What good did Gemma's blackmailing of Neil Stuke character get her?

Neil was Simon's accountant so she blackmailed into giving her all the information on how Simon had financed his property development:
(a) re-mortgaged the house (forging Gemma's signature)
(b) used all the family savings
(c) had an unknown investor called Whitestones

AnyFucker · 07/10/2015 23:25

Misty eyed stares into the distance, nostril flaring and constant hair adjustment does not a Bafta make Smile

TheSpottedZebra · 07/10/2015 23:27

Sadwidow, Neil Stuke played the dad! I didn't mean the hot accountant. Yes, HOT.

So, the dad gave her money then? Aha!

PrivatePike · 07/10/2015 23:29

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Elendon · 07/10/2015 23:30

Plus hot accountant's willy was bigger...Smile

BathtimeFunkster · 07/10/2015 23:30

WTF is Mark Lawson on about even numbers?!

Loads of TV dramas are 3 or 5 parts.

(And not because their writers have pretensions to being Shakespeare or Aeschylus. Hmm )

Blondeshavemorefun · 07/10/2015 23:31

Guess as he has a restraining order he couldn't say hi to tom so yes as divorce lawyer said woman gets house money etc and man starts new family

Think the ending was to show Tom that his mum worked and had a good job and saves people lives - ie she's a good woman

Money put a roof over his head - sent him to private chill school and paid for his football and pizza express

BathtimeFunkster · 07/10/2015 23:32

Hot accountant was not hot.

But more hot than ugly husband.

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Lauren15 · 07/10/2015 23:38

I thought at the beginning she was the outsider. It was his home town, she didn't really belong. That's why he kept insisting he couldn't leave because it was his home town. At the end when she was sitting drinking coffee, looking around, feeling contented, because she felt a sense of belonging. Meanwhile Simon, the former golden boy, was being banished to London in his crappy old car.

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UnderTheGreenwoodTree · 07/10/2015 23:43

I thought it was good - if far fetched.

Gemma got what she wanted - her son (who she showed the truth- probably that is not recommended though), her house, her money back, he job back if she wanted it, him to feel the pain she felt.

Kate got her man, sure - but he's a cheating twat, who can't keep to one woman, and he left with nothing for London, presumably.

The last scene was sledgehammer clumsy - but had Tom looking at the sexist cartoon picture (it can't have been shown by accident) and then Gemma saving the man - a total wake-up call to him that mum wasn't just 'not there' - but is someone important, valuable. Whereas dad is just a twat.But it was a (clumsy) comment on how society views women - sexist cartoon version vs. doctor saving a life on the street.

BoreOfWhabylon · 07/10/2015 23:47

Well that's fve hours of my life I'll never get back.

Utter bilge, from start to finish.

Badly researched, badly written, badly acted (I'm looking at you, open-mouthed, botox-browed, gurning Suranne Jones) bilge.

VelvetSpoon · 07/10/2015 23:47

The bit that really got on my wick was the whiny child (sorry, but he really was in this episode!) saying 'oh you're always working' when in the previous 4 episodes she was barely ever at work!

Indeed part of her suspicion around Simon was that he was always away with work, so busy, never got home til late, yet his secretary was locking up at 5...and we'd already seen Gemma collecting the son from school.

I'm sure someone will say oh the son was just venting, but to me it's sloppy writing/plot construction - if you've based your story on one person having an affair and being pretty absent a lot of the time, don't then have another character forget it all and suggest the opposite because it's convenient for the plot/is an excuse to bash working mums!

On the whole it did remind me a) of some advice my dad once gave me about the importance of financial equality in a relationship and b) that - after ignoring that advice and getting financially burned by my Ex - that I will NEVER have a joint account or cede control of my finances again.

DrFoxtrot · 07/10/2015 23:51

I loved this series, I was gripped the whole way through. You can all have the hot accountant and I'll take Simon, but when he's a different character in a different programme Grin.

I agree with what others have said - Simon has lost his good life, I don't expect his relationship with Kate to turn out well.

The dinner party scene was excellent and that moment when he got in Kate's car and they drove off to her house.

A patient asked me last week if my life was as exciting as the series Hmm

TheDietStartsTomorrow · 07/10/2015 23:51

What a disappointing ending. Everyone happy?? Kate and Gemma on friendly 'albeit-strained-talking terms?? Shit-face Simon smiling down benovelently at his ex and son whom he has a restraining order against??? My arse.

UnderTheGreenwoodTree · 07/10/2015 23:52

It did surprise me that she would hand all the financial control over to him - but then he did commit fraud by forging her signature. Perhaps the sort of thing that could happen to anyone.

I've known many an intelligent woman IRL to hand over financial control to a husband. I guess, because they trust them.

summerwinterton · 07/10/2015 23:52

it just seemed another way of blaming the wife for her husband's affair. The typical rewriting of history to justify his own feckless behaviour.

NoelHeadbands · 07/10/2015 23:54

That annoyed me too, in previous episodes we saw that Gemma was the main caree, Simon didn't know where common household things were kept, worked long hours, couldn't go for pizza etc etc.

But all of a sudden, Gemma is the absent one Hmm

The bloody inconsistencies have driven me mad- it's almost like each episode has had a different director/ writer.

ENtertainmentAppreciated · 07/10/2015 23:55

Million, it was sloppy writing. Carly's boyfriend's complaint wasn't mentioned tonight, only Anna being responsible for the online reviews, which she agreed to delete.

It was very poorly sketched out.

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Fontella · 07/10/2015 23:57

Well I loved it.

The fact that little Miss spoiled brat face like a slapped arse heavily pregnant came over to Gemma trying to be all nice to her after treating her with utter contempt, on every single occasion previously, said a lot. Then telling her they were finally moving away completely (which was exactly what Gemma wanted), was a triumphant moment, while Gemma said not a word in reply, cool, calm and collected. We also learned from that conversation that Simon was allowed no contact whatsoever with wife and son - not even to call. When Kate said her parents were 'glad too' it was because they also wanted her and him gone, not because they were helping her.

Meanwhile Gemma got everything she wanted. Simon and Kate gone from her world, her life intact, neighbours, colleagues, the house, the money, her son ... and clearly given the way it ended with her rushing into doctor mode - her career. She outwitted and out manoeuvred them all.

Meanwhile he climbs into the old car (plot device to illustrate how skint they are) with Kate and unborn child. It wasn't a case of driving off into the sunset at all. They were going because they had no alternative, there is nothing there for them any longer. His look was wistful and full of regret, not a happy smile.

The fact that they ended up together doesn't mean he's somehow won. Two selfish entitled weak unpleasant characters who deserve each other. Gemma was the winner all round on every level. The only thing she 'lost' was a weak, pathetic, hopeless with money/business, cheating, lying husband. Everything else in her life remained intact and in many respects better.

I thought it was fine ending, and have thoroughly enjoyed the whole series from start to finish.

DrFoxtrot · 07/10/2015 23:57

And when she pointed out to him that he'd never actually said sorry.

Some parts were a little hard to believe but very entertaining, and some parts were completely simple and heartbreakingly true to life.

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