The Replacement - BBC1

[southeastdweller]

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

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h625c

Paula did imply that her husband was going to take over the bulk of the child care, The80s , but when Ellen referred to it in conversation with him at the Sunday lunch he looked a bit nonplussed. Not sure if my interpretation of his look was correct, though!

I have to admit to being very shocked by the ending - I'd thought we were in for a tale of feelings and influences, not a violent death.

I think it'll be the boss who killed his wife. Was a bit of a stretch though, why would the female boss ask her heavily pregnant employee, who's already been injured there, to meet her at the building site in the dark?

i will have to watch that bit again, i think that we had resorted to sub titles by then so i tend to just read and not look at the faces!
there has been a lot of mention of the boss lady not having any children of her own - i feel this could be significant somehow..
Now Ellen has had the baby she will feel even more left out of things.
her hubby is very attractive!

How can anyone be Team Paula

I really enjoyed it. I too thought it was going to be a surprise baby shower so when the body fell through the skylight I fair jumped out of my seat.

What with Broadchurch on a Monday and this on a Tuesday!

I'm another who is possibly Team Paula, on the basis that she's being set up to look like the oh-so-obvious baddie, but it might be just the main character's paranoia. But we'll see....

exit, i know - its a shame that all the dramas are on first part of the year and by the summer its all repeats or films!
I prefer a drama serial, the replacement is only 3 parts, but Broadchurch is 8!! the record button will be on overdrive.

Watched this after just finishing a book called The Fire Child by SK Tremayne. Again a bit far fetched but deals with the issue of pre-partum psychosis that makes the main character doubt her own sanity, become suspicious, paranoid and had also suffered with depression previously. It made me wonder whether this may be the case here or whether it is a red herring.

Is Ellen being set up here over the skylight or am I overthinking

Well that was unexpected!

I thought Ellen did great with those hormonal tears

Arkengarthdale, he was in the last episode of season 2 of Outlander, playing Roger Wakefield. I expect he'll make more appearances in season 3. The actor (Richard ??) was also in the underrated WWI drama The Crimson Field back in 2014.

Thank you Queen. Haven't got that far with series 2 yet. Is it Richard Rankin? Bonny lad, anyway

Yes, that's his name!

No the dp is not staggeringly young to be a psychiatrist. He's in his mid to late 30s, which is realistic. However Ellen seems quite young to be an architect with ten years experience. But I'm just nit picking. It's a great drama. Paula reminds me of a manipulative colleague I have at work. Oh crap, just realised we have at least two skylights at work. I'm staying well away from them!

Ah fair enough I thought he looked a lot younger than that, must be good skin :o

Yes I agree that both Julia and Ellen are way too young looking to be having such positions in an architecture's office. Most associate architects bringing in £12m contracts are mid 40s onward (unless they come from a wealthy family, which does happen) and these are mostly the men. But it's a story. Not real life.

Ellen is also in Grantchester.

I thought it was really good and just hope it doesn't go the same way as many British serial and have a crap ending. I thought Paula was incredibly creepy, especially when she touched Ellens bump it actually made me cry out "Noooo".
I wonder if Paula is after the dead woman's husband as they looked very cosy together in one of the office shots.

Looking forward to the next episode but would prefer to be able to watch the whole lot in one sitting like Nexflix etc..

Dougray Scott's character is a bit dodgy, a bit too nice IYSWIM.

Who has the time to watch all of these programmes in one sitting?

Did it suggest at one stage (ellen googling him) that Paula's husband was an architect, so her first idea about moving lights of whtever that first impressed them might have come from him? I thought at first on that Paula might have been planted there to help him take the contract from them. Far too tame a thought compared to the ending though!

We tend to tape, itv is good as i can whizz through the ads and other stuff. The programme is only 45 mins long then, if that.
I liked the more straight forward approach of this drama, no flashbacks to the past, yet anyway.

Dougray Scott's character is a bit dodgy, a bit too nice IYSWIM.

On the BBC site it talks about how his character "keeps a tight lid on his emotions especially his feelings for Ellen", so I think there is definitely more to him than meets the eye.

It's only 3 episodes so just like watching a long film. I always record and run on anything on commercial channels as I hate the adverts.

On planner

I thought he was a bit touchy feely with Ellen so wonder if there's some history there
Don't really get all the dislike of Ellen on here, I think it's just a portrayal of a very career orientated driven woman struggling a bit with impending motherhood and a weird co-worker/replacement

It was quite good, wasn't it?

I didn't think that either Paula or Ellen seemed that nice.

Paula keep going on about the baby was awful, but then when Ellen made her do the presentation, I assume with the hope of her failing...