Kiri, Channel4, Wed 10th Jan

[southeastdweller]

Anyone else looking forward to this? The writer also wrote the recent Robbie Coltrane drama, National Treasure, and Sarah Lancashire is always superb.

www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2017-10-31/kiri-channel-4-trailer/

Braceface not necessarily if they were believed to have no contact with the father and no welfare issues with them. GPs are often a protective factor.

For some reason, I'm feeling very little sympathy for Sarah L' s character. Or those grandparents. We need to know about police investigation on how she left their house. Highly unlikely it's anyone other than the biological dad who killed her - don't think this is a standard whodunnit.

I found it v believable. But if there's three more it can't be as simple as the dad did it?!

Why are the grandparents not in trouble already??

I enjoyed it but hadn't spotted the foster mum following!

Something will also come out about her abusing alcohol otherwise the swigging from the hip flask and the morning pick me up in her coffee would be pointless. There'll be a back story with her mum too, no doubt.

Is it a weekly thing?

I'm also quite stressed about the dog being left in the car I also think it's going to be the foster brother, not her birth father

The foster Mum was a bit creepy I thought....

I find SL character very realistic, have met social workers very like her also.

Not in my long standing experience Arcadia. Incredibly poor practise if so. Highly risky.

It's on for another three weeks.

I’ve rewatched the beginning as wanted to know who was following SL in the car and it’s not exactly clear but think it was foster Mum, who then waited and watched house and saw Kiri’s father pull up (would she know he was her father?). Will look to see if she has a silver car in next episode! Feel it probably wasn’t her father who killed her. But why is SL drinking like a fish and driving? If anyone finds out she will be slaughtered, I don’t understand how she doesn’t care?

I'm a social worker and I have never met any social workers like the Sarah Lancashire character. They just wouldn't behave like that.

Just to add to my post not for an adoptive placement. They said she was about to be adopted which makes it high risk so unsupervised contact just wouldn't happen. Completely different if a long term foster placement.

Yes it doesn’t make sense that the first unsupervised contact would take place right before she was adopted. In my (non professional) mind that would be the most risky time for her to be abducted.

Also not liking the SL character. Maybe I’m naive but she was waaay too blasé when being interviewed by the police initially. Although I’m coming at it from the perspective of having had a missing child and the sheer terror of those few short hours. Maybe SWs are well used to it.

Ok I'm a bit behind, so maybe she's not so realistic. Maybe not the with the hip flask, etc. It was first impressions reminded me of social workers I knew as a child. But the more I watch maybe not so much.

I'm still enjoying watching anyway.

I'm confused about the 'foster parents'. It seemed to me like they were foster parents too but I couldn't understand cos it also seemed like they maybe adopted her? It spoke about them choosing her? You don't choose foster kids. ??

Noooo, the poor dog!

The foster parents had been given the go ahead to adopt Kiri in the near future @purpleme12

sureitsgrand "The foster Mum was a bit creepy I thought.... "

What made you think that?

purpleme12 "I'm confused about the 'foster parents'. It seemed to me like they were foster parents too but I couldn't understand cos it also seemed like they maybe adopted her? It spoke about them choosing her? You don't choose foster kids. ??" The foster parents were just that but had chosen to adopt her and were going through the process to do that. The foster dad asked about a court date when SL arrived.

I think the talking about choosing her was in the appeal to try and find out information before they realized she had been killed. Sometimes people think you cannot love an adopted child as much as a birth child so sometimes people talk about choosing their child as a way of expressing how much they love them.

I have a birth child and an adopted child. I was wondering how I would feel if our son had been taken off to see family when we were caring for him before he was legally adopted.

sureitsgrand "The foster Mum was a bit creepy I thought.... "

What made you think that?

I thought she looked a bit creepy at the part where she was sitting in the car with her husband and he was crying and she was just sitting there and looking out the window as if it was his horrible situation and she just happened to be sitting next to him.

I hoe that was just a good make up job Sue Johnson had

Italiangreyhound so are you saying that the foster parents wanted to adopt her but then social services decided she was to be adopted by the grandparents?

Either they were foster parents who wouldn't have chosen her but had decided to adopt her and this had been agreed by the L.A.

Or she was placed with them for adoption but they hadn't yet got their adoption order. But then they wouldnt have been referred to as foster carers they would have been called adopters. But does make more sense when they said they chose her.

DonnyAndVladSittingInATree I kind of agree, her response in the care was a bit odd.