Doctor Foster 2: the Post-Mortem [where we continue dissecting an everyday story of Parminster folk].

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To be honest, I was hoping she’d killed him. I was also a bit surprised he turned into a snivelling suicidal wreck. It ending with the kid doing a runner was a bit of an anti climax. I really thought there would be more of a bang at the end.

Didn't someone come on one of the other DF threads & say she knew Bertie Carvel & he was definitely a twat?!

Another BBC drama. Another crap ending? Dunno why I get so emotionally invested in a series that often ends as if the crew through together outtakes and a script written on a beer mat the night before. It seems bonkers that one can be relieved a 15 year old has chosen to run away from his two nutter parents.
I can only hope Tom's teacher finally resurfaced and invited the new neighbours over for tea. They could join Tom for dinner over tales of how Gemma neglected them as well.

Two people so utterly obsessed with each other, that they have no time or interest in the car crash of their son's life going on in front of them. Using him as a pawn in their shitty power games. No wonder he left.

I've decided I'm definitely not watching this again and that Surranne isn't that great an actress. Unfair perhaps but that's my opinion. She does this weird acting is reacting thing, after an important line, breathes in and tosses her head. Of course it could be a character trait for Gemma but I'm pretty sure I remember her corrie character doing it too. Anyway I find it oddly distracting. I hope she has some theatre in the pipeline.

Well all i can say is that i wasted an hour of my life I'll never get back. What shite!

Unbelievable tripe and terrible scriptwriting. The programme lurched from one ridiculous situation to another as the writer/s tried to think up an ending. The sickly flashbacks, Simon eating a full breakfast when his life was minutes from ending, corks left on doorsteps....all the result of a frantic writer trying to inject tension and suspense. I laughed out loud at some points as the plot twisted and ended up in knots.

I couldn't wait for it to end, watched in disbelief that television could be so bad.

I loved the ending. Where Gemma says

That this terrible thing was there, obvious the whole time, and you didn't see it - and you know there's no going back. Whatever life you had whatever you thought was so important now looks so naive. What you thought was the fight was merely the warning. Your biggest fear was nothing compared to this.

She thought all that time that that her fight was Simon and Kate. First the affair. The money. Then them coming back and causing problems. She thought she had problems then.

But that was just the warning and NOW she has problems as her son is missing.

That's the problem with life. The REAL issues you face are those you never saw coming but perhaps ought to have done.

Well all i can say is that i wasted an hour of my life I'll never get back

Sick and tired of hearing this.

What else would you have been doing? Discovering the meaning of life?

Jeez it is one hour.

Didn't like the talking to the camera thing. It wasn't at all in the style of the rest of the show.

While I can see that it was rubbish in some ways –and quite boring, all that driving about and talking on phones and sitting in dreadful eateries – it did have an awful fascination. Like hearing really terrible gossip about people you know, but all the details, dull and scandalous alike.

Surely the first thing Gemma did would be to check if Tom was living with Anna, or at least had contacted her? I guess at the end time was

meant to have passed since he disappeared, so have to assume he isn't with her.

Agree Niki That's a phrase that bugs the heck out of me and I see it all the time here.

The suicide kit she provided. FFS who would do that? Why risk her job, her freedom, everything for that? Especially when she didn't actually want him to kill himself.

Totally unbelievable tripe. It was all flannel last night: lots of arguments about nothing, and very little substance.

Sick of the sound of Tom's name by the end, and also finding Tom an annoying pain. At the very end, I felt Gemma deserved all she got. Still had a bit of sympathy for Simon.

I've just finished watching it, it seemed to go on forever.. it felt like a long hour.

Also disappointed and think it could have ended with Simons life falling apart.

Erm, a doctor Foster opera?
Has anyone else seen this mentioned

Awful.

I think it was quite a fighting ending.

If Simon had killed himself Tom would have blamed Gemma and Simon would have got the easy way out.

Tom disappearing punishes both Gemma and Simon for being so selfish and wrapped up in themselves that they've forgotten they have a child. They now live with the guilt of knowing that their actions have cost them the one thing they should have cared about all along.

*fitting not fighting. Stupid autocorrect

Is the town 'shit'? It's filmed in Hertfordshire isn't it? Loads of people do want to live in these places in England that's why they're so unaffordable. I thought the location was relevant because of Simon's emotional attachment to the place - when he refers to Tom not being too young to look after a parent as that's what he had to do.

I was uncomfortable watching the turmoil they put Tom through but at the same time I would imagine most 15 year olds would be more vocal about the madness that was ensuing around them. My 10 year old has more emotional intelligence than Tom. I found that really frustrating to watch.

Applauds Nikki

Such important things to do, so switch it off and do them. Don't decide 59 minutes in it was a waste of your precious bloody time.

I think I must be the only person on the planet that actually quite liked last night's episode. I even wondered if they'd got a different scriptwriter in for the last two episodes as they were much less shit than the first 3 (which were truly dreadful). My parents had a bitterly acrimonious split when I was a similar age to Tom and there were a lot of things in last night's episode that brought back memories. Bad ones, obviously, but it had a big element of realism to me. All that anger tinged with sadness at how happy things once were, and emotional blackmail and self pity on the part of the cheating partner who caused it all in the first place.

I didn't think of running away though, nice one Tom.

I liked it! It wasn't that well written (though I liked the black humour of the Happy Eater scene) - agree it seemed to be different somehow. But it was a kind of peaceful ending, with some kind of resolution that made sense. I was also glad Tom ran away.

The town it's filmed in is Hitchin. Basically for those who cant afford St Albans.

Hitchin is a bit grotty. Been a few times. Generic market town.

Hitchin is beautiful, there’s nothing generic about it. It’s not as expensive as St. Albans to live in admittedly, but then where is, except central London perhaps?

I wouldn't fall over myself to stay in a town like that though.

Hitchin, the historic market town? Yeah, really grotty