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The Replacement - BBC1

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southeastdweller · 28/02/2017 18:20

Anyone else planning on watching this three-parter that starts tonight at 9?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h625c

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CheeseonTwats · 14/03/2017 22:24
  1. What happened to Paula?
'I hope that she’s got the help she needs.'

Well did you write it? Because otherwise, she did not. Hmm

RainbowDashian · 14/03/2017 22:24

That was shite!

TalkingofMichaelAngel0 · 14/03/2017 22:25

The radio times article did not help.

noitsnotme · 14/03/2017 22:26

How can that writer seriously say that Ian made a good pitch for getting Ellen back? Bloody hell.

Polkadot1974 · 14/03/2017 22:26

I feel let down. There could easily have been 4 episodes and a few more twists

Polkadot1974 · 14/03/2017 22:27

Ian was a knob though

NoelHeadbands · 14/03/2017 22:27

I'm still chuckling at the hot wiring of a car after overdosing on viagra tablets. Then BOOM, the car bursting through the garage doors

I'm surprised she managed to act that with a straight face

BettyBaggins · 14/03/2017 22:29

hotwiring a car after you've overdosed? FFS! SomewhereNow

This!

fussychica · 14/03/2017 22:29

WTF!
I am not watching another BBC thriller type drama serial again, the final episodes are always a total letdown. This was just awful, totally laughable.
Releasing the article to try to explain things is just unbelievable. I have just read it and seems to me he didn't really have much of a clue about what he was trying to achieve.

CrazySexyCool123 · 14/03/2017 22:30

Didn't Georgia used to work with Paula in a busy city centre..... But the hit and run was in a quieter area. So she killed her colleagues daughter nowhere near where they worked?

BakeOffBiscuits · 14/03/2017 22:34

The more I think about this the more angry I am. A male writer, writing about motherhood and a mother's bereavement, clearly he knows very little about eitherAngry

Isitjustmeorisiteveryoneelse · 14/03/2017 22:35

Literally none of that made sense. The only good thing is, unlike that shite series Lost, I only wasted three weeks of my life instead of four years. I thought when she was ripping wires and stuff off the car she was making a rocket launcher a la the A Team. Would have fitted perfectly with the rest of this weird episode. Seriously, if Broadchurch ends up being this crap this time round I'm going to give up watching TV.

SoMuchPain · 14/03/2017 22:35

What an absolute shitting waste of life watching that!!! Jeez - and the article explaining it shows that this series should never have been made as the writer really didn't have a clue either!!!

tinypop4 · 14/03/2017 22:35

The Georgia thing was pointless in terms of the plot. And unbelievable.

The car thing was ridiculous- can you even do that to a modern car?? And then bursting through the doors like that, not even groggy from the partial-overdose. Weird!!

papayasareyum · 14/03/2017 22:36

so Paula killed Kay because she kept going on about Charis? That's it?

noitsnotme · 14/03/2017 22:36

Crazy I think she worked with Georgia after the hit and run

JaneEyre70 · 14/03/2017 22:36

Like others said, they even missed the anticlimax!!!.........DH was sat open mouthed scratching his head even more than he normally does too. I think even the writer lost what was going on tbh. Utter Shite BBC.

saniner · 14/03/2017 22:36

The twists and explanations upthread were far more satisfying. Don't become a mother you'll lose your marbles Hmm

wizzywig · 14/03/2017 22:36

Oh that shut her up

Gwenhwyfar · 14/03/2017 22:37

"So who Leah's dad? confused"

Did you watch it? Ian is Leah's dad. Paula made it up about Ellen and David having an affair.

eddiemairswife · 14/03/2017 22:38

I thought Ellen googled the hit and run and found it was Georgia who was the driver and also the car number. What I don't understand is why Paula had access to that car and used it to drug Ellen.
I also don't understand the point of drugging Ellen. It wasn't a fatal dose, and why did she block the car doors? Was Ellen supposed to starve to death?

NoelHeadbands · 14/03/2017 22:39

There's a woman at my work goes on and on about her kids all the time. She's going through the skylight tomorrow

saniner · 14/03/2017 22:39

Plus I think she would have known to take off the headrest and use the sharp bits to shatter the windscreen. If the car had already been in a rta there's a good chance there wouldn't be an airbag left.

BubbleBed · 14/03/2017 22:41

She was coughing as if there were fumes. But the engine wasn't running. So i got really confused.

CheeseonTwats · 14/03/2017 22:42

I think I'm unreasonably angry with this but never mind...

So Georgia, who also happens to be an architect, kills Paula's daughter in a hit and run.

Paula then spends the rest of her days pretending her daughter is alive as a coping mechanism but gets a job with her child's killer.

Paula takes Georgia's car - we don't know why - and stores it.

Kay finds this out so Paula kills her. Georgia felt unable to tell anyone this.

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