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Apple Tree Yard starts on Sunday! [MNHQ message: No spoilers please, including what happens in the book!]

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Destinysdaughter · 18/01/2017 12:44

I really enjoyed the book so looking forward to this. It's in 4 parts with Emily Watson playing the main character and Ben Chaplin as her lover. BBC1 9pm

Good article about it here.

www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/14/emily-watson-apple-tree-yard-middle-aged-women-infidelity-sexuality#comments

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VivDeering · 06/02/2017 14:37

Growing up, going to prison was one of my greatest fears. This programme is really tapping in to that, so I'm glad we've not seen any of her experience behind bars Sad

Yoksha · 06/02/2017 14:40

Viv, I've been having the same thoughts too. I don't think I'd survive being locked up. That & being hungSad

Wondermoomin · 06/02/2017 14:42

The holding cell at the Old Bailey sounds a lot more grim and oppressive in the book than we're getting to see in the programme.

PollyPerky · 06/02/2017 16:40

Mark is as we were told in ep 3- a former cop who failed selection for MI5. There is no undercover role for him. His work is rather mundane as was hinted at last night. In fact if you look at what his title was (as he said to her), that's what his work is.

CalmItKermitt · 06/02/2017 16:47

Can't find BC attractive at all. I think it's his hair. It's far too dark and "flat" - the colour looks flat I mean. It looks dyed.

VivDeering · 06/02/2017 16:59

We were discussing plot twists Polly Confused

TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth · 06/02/2017 17:01

I'm actually dreading this tonight. She'll be found guilty of murder, he'll be dealt with gently and I'll go to bed feeling angry and annoyed. I bet they show the tape of the Apple Tree Yard encounter in court too to humiliate her further. Nice supportive (albeit a bit philandery) husband will shake his head and abandon her.

And this is entertainment Grin

user1475253854 · 06/02/2017 17:14

yoksha I don't think anyone would survive being hung... And we don't have the death penalty any more Confused

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 06/02/2017 17:22

Someone did survive being hung in the 17th century - a servant girl who was condemned for infanticide after she miscarried. There's a superb YA novel about her by Mary Hooper, Newes From The Dead.
(Apologies for the digression. Couldn't resist the opportunity.)

PollyPerky · 06/02/2017 17:23

Just read the spoiler thread and put yourselves out of your misery Grin

Yoksha · 06/02/2017 17:38

Really? user, wouldn't want to accuse you of pointing out the obvious. It's a hypothetical response on my fears.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 06/02/2017 18:01

I am liking the changes they have made from the book

What doesn't come across so much is how much she is excited by him being a spy, in the book you feel it drives her feelings for him more

TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth · 06/02/2017 18:11

Pah, there's me saying I was dreading watching it; now events have conspired against me and I probanly can't watch it anyway so I'm not pleased! I'll have no fingernails left soon!
The spoiler thread, Polly? Never!

Formerpigwrestler9 · 06/02/2017 18:20

perhaps Yoksha meant that even if the actual neck breaking part of being hung didnt kill her then the stress of being sentenced to hang would?

Reminds me.... other day I told my other half about a man who was injured falling from a building, he said 'but it's not the falling that kills you it's the landing' and seemed surprised when I laughed

I worried about lots of things when I was a child, but I dont recall worrying about prison!

user1475253854 · 06/02/2017 18:30

That sounds interesting Countess I might check it out.

Sorry if I sounded like and was being a dick yoksha I think I just thought it was strange to be scared of something that can't happen. I can understand being terrified of prison though, it's possible one may end up in prison one day for whatever reason.

Trills · 06/02/2017 18:40

I'm pretty certain Yoksha was carrying on from "one of my greatest fears" when she said "and being hung", rather than saying that she didn't think she'd survive being hung.

fussychica · 06/02/2017 18:54

How on earth did the police know where to go to arrest her? Surely they would have gone to her house and had to return there until she was home.
I'm quite liking this but just hope that it has a decent end, unlike most British tv drama I seem to watch.

Gwenhwyfar · 06/02/2017 19:03

"What doesn't come across so much is how much she is excited by him being a spy"

We did get some of that. The childish "I'm fucking a spy" in her head.

Gwenhwyfar · 06/02/2017 19:05

"I think I just thought it was strange to be scared of something that can't happen. "

It could happen to you if you committed a crime in a country that still has the death penalty.
I'm also terrified of ending up in prison. I'm quite law abiding so not sure why I worry so much that it'll happen.

HelenaDove · 06/02/2017 19:47

Another rape myth was covered in last nights episode. Yvonnes daughter saying to her that she had a "responsibility" to report because she had a duty to other womens safety.

So glad that a prime time TV drama is drawing attention to the fact that so much of the onus, responsibility and blame is still on women.

Maybe it will make some question their victim blaming ways.

Dulra · 06/02/2017 19:51

Not sure if I'm looking forward to tonight's episode want to find out what happens but pretty sure I won't be pleased with outcome. Dh is away so going to have to watch on my own Sad.

On the prison fears I can honestly say it has never once entered my head that I could end up in one and that's despite being arrested in US for underage drinking. I was 20 and pretending to be 21 Grin

lottieandmia · 06/02/2017 20:20

I wasn't surprised that he doesn't work for MI5. Anyone who did wouldn't want to hint at the fact would they? Particularly to a lover. It just doesn't ring true. A good spy would blend in and never be suspected of their true job, surely?

lottieandmia · 06/02/2017 20:22

His defence is that he has a personality disorder - so he's probably a pathological liar amongst other things.

NoelHeadbands · 06/02/2017 21:07

Fancy getting arrested by Dave Coaches

minisausage · 06/02/2017 21:12

I think she's going to pull something out the bag to get him sent down

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