The Night Of **spoiler warning - title edited by MNHQ**

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Has anyone been watching it? Finale was last night. Fantastic I thought.

I was gripped by every moment of it, not one boring character, they were all brilliant to watch.

And maybe it's just my anatomy but I'd need to do more than wave my fingers at my flaps to retrieve slippery drug filled condoms from my fanjo

I imagine anyway

There would definitely be leg up on a chair and a good old rummage

I've just been googling and there will be a season 2 but a completely different story.

Finished watching
Well that was good
Not excellent which I thought it would be from ep 1 but as a pp said that could have been a stand alone film. The pacing of it was extraordinary.

I was disappointed in a couple of ways. Firstly I think it's always a let down when a vital character is introduced at the last minute. Secondly I was so disappointed in Ms Kapoor, I guess it's a pet hate to see a professional woman behave so irrationally, for no reason at all, and in this case it was to achieve a convoluted bit of story which could have been reached another way. I loved the way her boss dismissed her though.

I also just didn't enjoy the prison stories but I disliked Naz from the start so I guess that would make it harder for me to care about that .in fact I thought he did it. But even if he didn't, the fact that he didn't check for a pulse and he ran away bothered me from the beginning.

Then again, even if I had liked him, I thought all the evidence pointed to his guilt. I was confused when Ms Weisz referred to him having the murder weapon on him and Ms Kapoor objected - that was forensically proven to be the murder weapon wasn't it? Or am I confused? You can't object to the fact that Naz had it on him by saying someone planted it.

We're supposed to accept that Ray did it? But even Naz can't say he didn't do it, he doesn't know. I think Broadchurch season two was meant to be a new story and look what happened there, so I'm wondering...

Stone is amazingly well crafted character and for me he really was the star of the show and the part with the cat was marvellous.

Oh, just finished the last episode , it made me cry, the bit by the river . And loved the cat

I couldn't breathe when he was leaving prison, so tense! And when he was at the river I wondered if he was going to see a flashback to the murder ...his flashbacks seemed to be getting more frequent as the drug use increased?

Shirley "I couldn't breathe when he was leaving prison, so tense! "

why did you find that tense? sorry if i'm being dense - sorry also for the unintended rhyme...!

I really liked Andrea.

Bugger,just lost a big long post! I'll try again...

Naz panicked when he realised she was dead. Hed been a victim of racism all his life this was clear throughout the episode , being a Muslim in New York will not be fun. He knew how it would look and he was an easy target.

If I didn't like Naz I'm not sure any of it would've made sense- didn't you utterly and hopelessly sorry for him Lorelei?

Leaving prison was VERY tense at one point i wasn't sure if Freddy was going to stab him.

If I didn't like Naz I wouldn't have bothered watching the series, wouldn't have been able to feel invested in it.

I didn't think Freddy would hurt Naz, I think he loved him in a way, I was worried someone else might though as he left.

I had a little blub when Jack made his closing speech, then sat down and Naz so quietly said thank you.

I never liked John Turturro that much till I saw this, he became that part and he should really get an award for it.

I just had a fleeting thought that Freddy might hurt Naz as he was leaving in a weird ' I can't have you then no one can't sort of thing. He was very unpredictable.

Just had another thought- why did Andrea's tox screen come back clear ? We saw her take a tablet and snort powder

Dame, yes, I know Naz panicked, yes, I know what it's like re lifelong racism (I lost loved ones in 9/11 and although I was here at the time, I got mistaken for Muslim too, although oddly enough when I went there for funerals etc it didn't seem to happen but I digress...).

but panic - and then the presence of mind to do everything he did don't fit for me either. Calling the police immediately would have gone in his favour. Plus as he said himself, he doesn't know that he didn't do it!

Naz was very passive through the whole drama, I'm not sure we would have seen enough of his personality to like him, unless the whole doe-eyed thing was supposed to work that. Personally i cringed as soon as he said "you know what kind of girls will be at this party" in the first episode.

After someone posted here about tension in prison - only then did I think Freddy might kill him but because i didn't like either of them, I guess that's why I didn't think of that.

I didn't know Andrea's tox screen came back clear, I totally missed that.

I suppose another thing about the trial is that for me, physical evidence is everything. Even if Naz had been someone I really liked, the physical evidence places him at the scene.

Also, re Ray, how would he have done this? Followed them home, waited till when...? And then stabbed Andrea 22 times with full confidence that Naz wouldn't suddenly come to and appear in the bedroom? I guess it's possible but it seems highly risky - people are often absolutely corpse like on drugs and then suddenly get up and you're like "what?!"

also, the more I think about it, the motive for Ray killing Andrea - and in such a violent way - is a bit meh. I'd have been more convinced if that undertaker had done it!

This does make me wonder if they will pull a Broadchurch on us for season 2.

No that's it, there will be a new story for season 2.

I think it was just one bad decision after the other tbh,he didn't have any presence of mind as he was off his head and in shock.

Wrt to him saying he didn't do it - I thought that he was saying he might've inadvertantly killed her due to not calling an ambulance not that he stabbed her.

Presumably as her financial advisor/ ex lover Ray was planning or had planned to squirrel her millions into his account. Wrt his hatred , maybe she'd just dumped him so scuppered his plan and was furious.

I love films/dramas where things aren't spelled out for you and you have to think it all through

I think he meant Not Muslim girls when he said that, later he says Andrea wasn't like his friends, she wasn't Muslim. I think the programme did quite a good job of indicating how hard it must be to be an American Muslim, living in a traditional family, everyone around him living a totally different kind of life then the tensions of 9/11 to contend with. The point was it came out over time that he wasn't this doe eyed well behaved Muslim boy, he had his moments of rebellion before Andrea ever got into the cab. We've all got nasty little secrets no matter how decent living we look on the outside. I think it was brilliantly done I really do.

Did anyone else think Naz actively tried to compromise Chandra in order to get a mistrial?

on the one hand it seems completely pointless but on the other hand it seemed so bizarre I can't see why else he did it - I mean the phone call to her and everything.

Dame - we were told Broadchurch would be a new story right up till the end of ep1, s2.

No I think he liked her and was reaching out to someone. She believed him, his own mother didn't even believe him.

To me one of the biggest messages from the programme seemed to be how suddenly things can go bad no matter how fundamentally decent and trying to live well you are. He did one bad thing - stealing the cab - that set in motion a chain of events that ruined his life.

Freddy might've orchestrated the lawyer smuggling drugs but I dont think Naz initially felt anything towards her apart from wanting to hear a friendly normal voice at the end of the telephone.

Nicki " He did one bad thing - stealing the cab - that set in motion a chain of events that ruined his life."

I guess it depends how you define "bad".

The drug dealing didn't bother you? It doesn't bother me as such but I guess that combined with the violent incident, the general thing about "the kind of girls that will be at this party" etc... I can't see him as a good kid who just did one thing wrong.

I also think what he did with Chandra was an exercise in power to some extent - seeing how far you can make someone go because they like you.

He'll be married to a poster on the relationships board in no time!!

I think you watched a completely different series me

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Nicki " She believed him, his own mother didn't even believe him"

but given that Naz can't say for sure that he didn't do it, I don't think he has the right to be upset by that.

I put myself in his shoes the first episode - imagine you wake up in a house, you know you've been off your face, you know you've been playing weird knife games with someone who turns out to have been violently stabbed several times.

if you literally can't remember anything, what grounds does anyone have to say "I didn't do that"? You don't know that what you took wasn't acid or something that made you think freaky stuff.

i once "woke up" after taking a prescription sleeper and found I'd lined up a bunch of baking utensils in the kitchen.I don't bake - that stuff is around from years ago. I also went to the local shop with odd shoes on. I vaguely remembered him looking at me strangely - I went to ask him later and he said "yes, i didn't know what to do because it was 4am, there were loads of dodgy people around and I thought you were off your face but it seemed so unlikely and I was alone in the shop" (I don't take recreational drugs, never have).

these are obviously not killing someone but with a literal blank in your mind, how do you know?

I should say, I mean different shoes on each foot, not shoes that were just odd generally!