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LARLARLAND · 24/04/2018 21:20

Anybody else watching it? I really want to like it but I am really not feeling it.

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BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 30/05/2018 09:33

I think Hannah and Christie are perfectly matched- they both like to dither and dither, then just at the moment the other one is about to get on with their life (get married, go to Chicago), they make the Big Declaration.
Bloody annoying

Willow2017 · 30/05/2018 09:47

Loved Ninas dress and think she and the comedian are good together. Think he will be good for her and she will become the backbone of Defoes now.
I also think Christie really loves Hannah, no idea why she is bloody annoying. As pp said she is a high profile lawyer yet canot get a sensible sentance out without having to think about it for 5 minutes in her own life.

And can totally get why the mum still loves the dad i have been in love with AH for donkeys years 😁😁😁

NamedyChangedy · 30/05/2018 10:16

Oh another thing that had me shouting at the screen was Hannah listing all the things that might annoy Christie when they're married, eg teeth grinding in bed etc. WTF, he's not proposed, love! That was such a leap that I had to check whether I'd missed an episode - at no point had marriage been discussed, as far as I can recall? In real life Christie would be on that plane, no questions asked - the woman's not stable.

Loopytiles · 30/05/2018 10:20

When Nathan said “this is love” about “working through” the affair revelation angst while cleaning their teeth in their double bathroom any sensible woman would’ve thought, bloody hell, if that’s all love has to offer with you then I’m off!

BurningTheToast · 30/05/2018 10:29

I'm not sure Hannah was listing the things that would annoy him when/if they got married, just pointing out that when you've been together as long as she and Nathan had you acquire these habits and failings and you grow into each other and put up with them to a degree where you can't imagine getting together with someone new and having to get used to each other's foibles.

And I'm not sure I get the assertions that Christie is too good-looking for her. NW is hardly a bag of spanners. And I'm no Cindy Crawford but I've pulled a couple of real lookers in my day! The heart wants what the heart wants, and often the hearts worth having aren't that shallow.

mydogisthebest · 30/05/2018 10:54

Hannah really annoyed me. She was unfaithful before Nathan was but suddenly the marriage has to end? I also think Nathan is much better looking that Christie.

Also if the dad was dead I am pretty sure an ambulance would not be taking him away

VanGoghsDog · 30/05/2018 11:33

Also if the dad was dead I am pretty sure an ambulance would not be taking him away

Yeah, they would. And he might not have been dead when they called them.

She was unfaithful before Nathan was but suddenly the marriage has to end? - but this is what was so annoying. She never sat down with him and said 'look, I can't move on from this, fidelity is important to me, so for me, it's over' - just a load of silence, lingering looks, telling other people she is all about family - then she just wanders off, not telling anyone, not thinking about her kids, and gets into bed with another man.

I get that she didn't really choose Nathan, she just felt all those years ago that C wasn't really up for it, and that she feels she has spent 19 years with the wrong man and now he is back being all drippy over her - but FFS, she's a grown woman.

Willow2017 · 30/05/2018 11:42

Also if the dad was dead I am pretty sure an ambulance would not be taking him away

Hannah had time to slope off to Christies and have sex and get back. Ambulance crew could have been trying to save him for an hour or more before giving up. Course they would take his body away.

Clawdy · 30/05/2018 12:02

I actually love NW's acting style, it is so distinctive. Really wish in the end she had either gone back to Nathan after a bit of making him suffer, or that she had decided to have a life without either him or Christie.

Peartree17 · 30/05/2018 12:13

Ah, now I've only just discovered NW in Unforgotten and love her in that. Haven't seen Last Tango in Halifax, will take a look.

But back to this. After enjoying episode 5 I was hoping for a really good finale that would justify the whole, slightly disappointing series, but no. I thought Hannah would stay with Nathan. He got quite tough with her about her lifelong hankering after Christie and I thought she'd sort of slap herself around the face, and realise she'd got what she wanted with her marriage. But then Nathan went all unattractively teary and wobbly lipped and, amazingly, Christie was still hanging around for her. Tosh! and then her mother saying, yeah go shag - and Hannah thinking that was a good idea. I still don't know if she plans to leave or not and right now, don't care.
James got attractive in episode 5 and was made laughable again. Boo.
I found all the slo-mo, poignant frozen shots just ludicrous.

Seemed like a colossal waste of talent and cash TBH but there you go, it kept us all watching, so must have hit a lot of right buttons! (My husband, bless him, thinks I'm even odder in my tastes now, but he likes cricket and programmes about weird weather patterns, so what does he know?)

Oh, and I did like Hannah's dress. Long sleeves, high neck, but shows off the figure, mmm very demurely sexy. A bit Kate Middleton - especially with nude shoe (actually, I'm not a fan of the nude shoe, but they seem de rigueur for a summer wedding).

I was disappointed in the Goldie ending - didn't really understand why pushing for more than was being offered was, at one moment, going to rain down catastrophe on her children; but the final agreement was a lot more than was initially offered and in the end seemed to leave everyone squared away OK. Was the pension fund intact? And if not, why would Goldie have wanted to remain a director, wouldn't she have been liable?

MargotLovedTom1 · 30/05/2018 12:32

Oh God, her acting style drives me mad.

"You know, I...."
Pause. Nervous smile. Quick sigh. Slight shake of the head.
"I have to..."
Pause. Sharp intake of breath
"....remember to put the bins out."
Rueful smile. Exit stage left.

MargotLovedTom1 · 30/05/2018 12:35

And anyone who prefers horse-face Nathan over the divine Christie needs to get to Specsavers. I would've been bonking him senseless on that boardroom table from the minute I clapped eyes on him.

VanGoghsDog · 30/05/2018 12:41

The Goldie story was insane - so he's been ripping the pension fund to support their lifestyle ("where did you think the money came from?". er, your business?) but in fact, transferring a million a year to his son by his mistress.

His other children have nothing really but the threat of a Serious Fraud Office investigation and Goldie a) gets more than the first offer (yet not what she wanted, but somehow this is still seen as a big 'win'?) and b) gets to sit on the board of a broke fraudulent company. Why?

You'd just drag your kids away from there, take the money and run. I would. Oh, and call the Serious Fraud Office, if the barrister didn't do it first....

Clawdy · 30/05/2018 12:58

Quite nice that the dad told the mum she looked beautiful outside the church. She actually looks rather like the comedy actress, Bella Emberg.

mydogisthebest · 30/05/2018 13:18

My DH used to be a paramedic and they did not take dead bodies away. Unless they have changed the rules, which I am pretty sure they haven't they would not have taken his body

mydogisthebest · 30/05/2018 13:20

I don't find Christie good looking in the slightest. Has a shifty look to me but then I don't tend to find fair haired men attractive

MargotLovedTom1 · 30/05/2018 14:14

I don't either, but I think he's an extraordinarily handsome man so I'll make an exception for him and Sawyer from Lost Wink.

I see it's coming back for a second series.

Loopytiles · 30/05/2018 14:20

Ah now Christie does not even come close to Sawyer! But the gorgeous Sawyer wasn’t well paid Grin

blueskypink · 30/05/2018 14:37

I actually love NW's acting style, it is so distinctive.

'Distinctive' is one word for it. Shame she's only got the one style that she uses whatever role she's playing ...

Willow2017 · 30/05/2018 14:49

You know, I...."
Pause. Nervous smile. Quick sigh. Slight shake of the head.
"I have to..."
Pause. Sharp intake of breath
"....remember to put the bins out."
Rueful smile. Exit stage left.

😁😁😁

dogsdinnerlady · 30/05/2018 15:21

Anyone else seen NW in River? She was great in that, feisty and funny - a bit like her LTinH role. Not sure she suits the drippy, love-lorn look.

VanGoghsDog · 30/05/2018 16:10

My DH used to be a paramedic and they did not take dead bodies away.

It must be different in different Trusts then. I worked in an office above a morgue and either ambulances or mortuary vans would drop the bodies off.

This seems to confirm that it can happen in some circumstances:

www.ambulance.nsw.gov.au/Media/docs/transportation_of_deceased_persons-9d303620-1a0b-4ae6-be79-0e6fe1407cb7-0.pdf

Blostma · 30/05/2018 16:23

Well DH and I both loved it. We are both a little in love with dippy/super lawyer NW though.

Willow2017 · 30/05/2018 16:30

Did someone mention 'Rupert'?

Any excuse Grin

The Split
Tomboytown · 30/05/2018 17:45

Why do people pick apart a drama like this?
Why say "that wouldn't happen in real life"

It's not real life, it's a drama, it's called dramatic licence.
showing the father being taken away- had them all outside, dramatic moment for Hannah, Christie following, the wife being invited in.