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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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cleaty · 08/10/2015 21:24

Except if the sexes had been reversed, everyone would have been saying it was anti men becuse of the treatment of Gemma.

Imbroglio · 08/10/2015 21:30

Simon kind of did the right thing at the end - calling the police, taking the consequences, looking after pregnant Kate.

Too little too late but he finally let Gemma go and took the blame so that she could hold her head up and resume life, both sadder but wiser.

MyGastIsFlabbered · 08/10/2015 21:30

Just caught up- very unsatisfactory in my opinion. Simon should have been in prison, Kate should have dumped his sorry backside and Gemma should have a hot new bloke (NOT the sleazy accountant.)

Imbroglio · 08/10/2015 21:40

I can't imagine things will work out very well for Kate and Simon - her rich Daddy thinks he's an idiot.

BitOfFun · 08/10/2015 22:13

I like your analysis, Imbroglio.

Hullygully · 08/10/2015 22:29

Little Simon had to redeemed for the menz

Bigfeet21 · 08/10/2015 22:36

It was like watching my life on screen.

I think SJ did a fantastic job of reproducing that overwhelming fear and panic , disbelief when you find out. The automaton you become, the thoughts of revenge etc etc - although did not do half of what she actually did, I did think of some of them! The absolute betrayal of your so called friends - that hurts so much. I have lost so many of our so called friends, their trite excuses for not telling me and their inability to look me in the eye.

I think they even got the fact that people did sympathise with Simon to an extent, because I sure as hell saw it with my friends.

My Ex got to go off to with his very much younger (15 yrs younger) woman, was pregnant, has had baby and he is now working like a dog, to support 4 DCs, she resents the baby and restrictions on her life and the minute he comes home from work, he is daddy care and she is of out to her friends. They shout and argue and he feels trapped - life was not better, utopia does not exist. Initially, I felt that he got away with it - not anymore. She on the other hand is almost free to start again.

That part I hate - I want her to suffer, I want her to hurt and I want her to understand the pain she and their father have caused my innocent DCs.

Superb series

SisterNancySinatra · 08/10/2015 22:38

The ending was a bit weird , when she sat down in the square at the end I actually thought she was watching her "14 yr" old son on the merry go round . The picture of a woman in he's magazine I thought meant that he will eventually leave her for a woman too. In the end she had nothing but her career. It was a bit of a flat ending really but I suppose " that's life".

Narp · 09/10/2015 06:26

Bigfeet

It's interesting you say that. That actually it was realistic

I think the series exposed everyone except Gemma.

hollyisalovelyname · 09/10/2015 07:35

Thank you SadWidow.
Perhaps they were not on holiday with them because the pool in France was copied in Kate's parents home in UK ?
I thought Gemma sleeping with the accountant was very low.
She's devastated by her husband's adultery yet she doesn't think of how Anna feels....and obviously prior to her knowing Anna was the troll.

Grazia1984 · 09/10/2015 09:37

Yes, that's unusual - the revenge affair because your other half has had one. usually instead the wife is still in love with the husband, blames the other woman more than her husband (wrongly blames her as it is the husband really who does the bigger wrong as he is the one who is married) etc.

Bigfeet's position is like someone I know who confided in me in his divorce and eventually left his wife for his mistress and has a new family with her. I don't think he ended up better off at all - he just started again the hard work of new babies with a second wife who is more demanding and younger than the first and forces him to do more childcare than the first, plus he's pissed off his first set of children and there is a lot less money to go round for everyone as he's now keeping an ex wife, a wife and 5 children from 2 families as he's the only worker. The mistress then becomes like the first wife and I suppose thus when you marry the mistress you create the vacancy.....

TheTravellingLemon · 09/10/2015 11:09

I think Gemma didn't feel bad about Anna because she had already found the phone that showed that she had spent time with Simon and Kate. I think Gemma could justify sleeping with the accountant because of their betrayal.

MorrisZapp · 09/10/2015 12:31

I'm still processing it all. Broadly agree with AF, this was badly written, compelling telly!

Ok plot fiends: why was Gemma upstairs in posh couples house when Millionaire thrashed out his terms with his daughter? And what did Gemma have over him to leverage the blackmail?

Lastly I'm mighty tired of the mistress /vacancy trope on here. It suggests that the OW deserves to be mightily shat on, and that the real villain of the peice (in this case, a family man who cheats on his steadfast wife with the daughter of a business associate) deserves to walk away laughing, with yet another bimbo.

Ok so the OW had an eminently slappable face and was a privileged type, but she was half his age and he would have lied and lied and lied some more to her.

Revenge isn't the OW getting shat on. It's the cheating married man getting nothing and losing it all (as befell the ex of a friend of mine. Couldn't have happened to a nicer cheating twat.)

SuffolkNWhat · 09/10/2015 12:37

The dad used his connections at the council to invest in the deal. V dodgy so Gemma was forcing his hand by saying she would report him.

LolaKent14 · 09/10/2015 12:38

Morris- at the dinner party she let Simon and Chris know she knew about the business deal they had going on.
Chris having bankrolled Simons venture. Chris also helped push it thru the council planning group as he sat on it. So this was a conflict of interest.
I get that the Parks were regarded very well in the town so he wouldn't want this coming out hence telling Kate Simon would get nothing more from him.
Gemma's silence was effectively bought with a deal between them.
He was also getting her savings back ensuring she kept the house and covering her expenses until the development was sold.

bigbadbarry · 09/10/2015 12:39

I've skimmed not read properly, but that poor child!

MorrisZapp · 09/10/2015 12:41

Aaah, makes sense.

Anybody else think Mrs Millionaire looked like Samantha Jones? I kept waiting for her to purr orgasmically and mention her cunt.

Grazia1984 · 09/10/2015 15:40

I agree the vacancy point I made does not always apply although plenty of men operate that way. My friend who found new love with his mistress and then had more children was then in touch when baby 2 was on the way. There was I supporting him in his time of troubles (not many people you can talk to about having an affair whilst married) and then as soon as wife number 2 is pregnant and probably no longer wanting much sex he comes on to me (I rejected him and refused to meet but it did shatter my illusions that some of these men were in the wrong marriage, then find the nice second wife for life and are faithful ever after..... many instead just repeat the same pattern again and again.

sadwidow28 · 09/10/2015 17:44

Perhaps they were not on holiday with them because the pool in France was copied in Kate's parents home in UK ?

I was almost buying that theory hollyisalovelyname until it became clear that Kate's parents knew NOTHING about the affair with Simon. I know Chris Parks was covering up his business relationship with Simon but, from the 'welcome at the door' for the dinner party, I really don't think that Susie and Chris Parks fraternised with Simon socially. I therefore believe that the photograph was taken at the holiday home in France as Becky Hughes (Simon's Assistant) said.

hollyisalovelyname · 10/10/2015 10:16

MorrisZap
Gemma was upstairs because the wife had a migraine ( was unwell) and Gemma was her GP ?

diddl · 10/10/2015 21:30

I was pretty bollocks overall I thought, but it passed the time.

What I really couldn't get over was the couple across the road going on holiday with Simon & Kate.

Seemed pretty far fetched.

hollyisalovelyname · 11/10/2015 13:13

Wh did Anna post horrible things on t'internet about Gemma?

diddl · 11/10/2015 14:41

Because Gemma slept with her husband.

Mintyy · 11/10/2015 16:27

That holiday and the whole lack of explanation for it is the biggest fuzzy hole in a plot full of fuzzy holes.

The thing I had a great deal of difficulty believing was that Gemma could get out of bed, go out to club, meet her mate Carly, meet the divorce lawyer with the brain tumour, bump into her old partner, take him back to his flat, organise train tickets for him the next day, speak to Mary and persuade her (how?????) to take in a suicidal alcoholic indefinitely, go home, get back into bed, get up and get her makeup on and go to work looking none the worse for wear. That was an extremely busy midnight to 3.00am or whatever it was.

Bolleaux but quite diverting bolleaux overall. And should give us all hope that we could write a plausible prime time television drama.

diddl · 11/10/2015 16:40

Yes, was obviously a small town!

And time seemed to stretch when necessary!

When push came to shove they all seemed to side with Simon in a way, which was why I was surprised that she was so keen to stay there.

Although the house was fab & her son was at school.

I suppose gossip dies down fairly quickly, but wasn't Tom at shool with Kate's brother?

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