Trauma - example of a bad trailer

[nuttyslackster]

Anyone feel that TV trailers give away too much? I understand it's a balance but having watched the trailer last night for ITV's new three part drama Trauma I feel like it basically gave away the whole plot bar whatever the denouement turns out to be. Has really put me off watching!

Utter utter tosh, Jon would totally have used the defence that he ‘confessed’ under duress, totally implausible arghhhh

Ending was better, so pleased Dan was a nasty shite, with his nice suits & his professional status. This drama was an exaggerated example of what probably happens all the time. Most people just sit on the feelings that mistakes were made or that a professional is not being quite honest. But I liked it.
Got to say though why is John Simms suddenly all over the tv??

I meant Jon was a nasty shite! Oops!

I didn't see Jon as nasty, just flawed. The daughter, then the wife letting Dan into the house was highly unlikely. Particularly as he had made comments to the wife about wanting to have sex with her, at their previous meeting!

I fell asleep just as Jon came into the house!! What did I miss?

We don't really know if he did make a mistake or just said it to get rid of Dan though.

And he did look as if he was on the verge of an affair with his colleague.

But how could Dan, who was mentally collapsing at home etc, suddenly pull off 'nice guy from Oxfam' act to the daughter?

I might have found this ok if John Sim’s character wasn’t so intensely unbearable to watch

John Sim's voice is just like Neil Morrissey's. Also the daughter wasn't a very good actress. Why did her well spoken parents have a child with a more working class accent.

Yes, the daughter somehow didn't convince. And I agree it was a bit unlikely Dan would be able to switch on that persona to fool the daughter. He suddenly became a skilled actor.

who who on earth doesn't press charges when a nutter holds a knife to their daughters throat

And what police force leaves the decision on referring such a serious crime to the discretion of the victims?

Uuhrgh, what rubbish

I think it was a social/class/system commentary. It wasn't meant to be realistic at all. It was a modern day fairy tale/fable with a 'moral of the story'. I know men like the doctor, men with everything. They ARE arrogant and I also think he WAS about to have an affair.

Mistakes happen all the time, things like this happen, people are not treated equally. That was the point.

I thought it was good, interesting even.

@danTDM then it was a rubbish one. No NHS surgeon (and as a trauma surgeon, he is unlikely to have a private practice) earns enough to drop £15k on a light and not even remember it. I’ll require evidence before believing that there is any real life justification for the fact that lad died, or that the surgeon wasn’t blamed, has anything to do with how much money his parents have.

I think someone jealous of money and privilege or angry about it would be better placed firing his ire at bankers, maybe corporate lawyers. Corrupt politicians. The bosses who sacked him.

Whilst consultants earn huge amounts, and psychiatrists, no one thinks that money is just about sheer greed .... Adrian Lester's monologue at the end did attempt to address that (badly) and I guess that was supposed to explain why he never seemed to be angry at the working class murderer...

This isn't normal Mike Bartlett territory : he went to one of the most expensive school in the country and his attempt at the working class anti hero groaned at the seams.

It was the life or death aspect, not money as in corporate bankers!
Arrogance and playing God. Unjustice, lies and power. Just MHO.

Where he went to school had everything to do with it I imagine. Again IMHO.

But I don't really care enough to have much more of an opinion on it than that TBH. Just fills an evening on a school night!

Oh yeah, there was that ridiculous line : 'if I had sent him to private school, he'd still be alive'. WTAF. That made me really cross at the time and you've just reminded me!

Real kids really get stabbed unfortunately (I am sure there was one yesterday) and I am not sure it plays out anything vaguely approaching the way it did.

I think if Bartlett had wanted to examine the dichotomies you describe, perhaps don't put a stabbed child at the heart of it. I just feel he felt no connection at all to the people he was writing about.

Hey ho : it's over now. For this relief, much thanks.

Yes, the doc did not come across as arrogant at all.

I think we all "got" that it was about class divide - I mean, it was shoved down our throats every third sentence wasn't it?

Thinking about it, John Sim seemed to be more bothered about the surgeon being richer than him than he did about his potential involvement with his son

imdunkel to me everyone has come out the worse. JS has still lost his son and I doubt knowing what he knows will help him cope. And the consultant has lost the trust of his family, very possibly his marriage and is suspended. I certainly didn’t feel glad about the outcome for either.

I agree that a lot seemed focussed on jealousy for those better off. But then he blamed everyone for that - he missed out on opportunities and by extension his boy died.

Well that was all a bit pointless wasn’t it! I normally like John Simm but found him rather cringey.