The Split

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

Given the choice between Stephen Mangan and Christie, for me it would be Mangan every time. Christie seemed to me vaguely slimy, with zero sense of humour.

I don't get why Hannah's firm didn't want to take on her mother as part of the takeover. It's reasonable to assume she had a client base and following who would rather continue to deal with her, and she could have come in as a consultant if they didn't want her as a partner. I hope that, come the next series, another firm will have snapped her up and we will see her going from strength to strength.

I'm divorcing at the minute and had wondered if i should watch. Kinda glad i did because i'm doing alright, comparatively speaking!
As for Christie ... very handsome with the beard, not so much without.

I think Stephen Mangan is very funny and is ageing well (am sure he'll be delighted to read that....)

Looking forward to second series, saddo that i am.

Bibesia, they might think the mother would try to run the show, having been so successful and run her own firm?

Isn't the mum 70? Therefore it's a good moment to step down?

Not necessarily, if she wants to carry on. I know a number of professional people who have carried on working very effectively well into their 70s and even 80s.

Maybe Hannah had a hand in her mother not coming on board? After all, she had perjured herself (and therefore compromised Hannah's advice to the foreign secretary client to cover up), had lied about large payments to her ex over the years, run down the firm's finances, and generally been a gigantic pain in the arse. I'd have jumped at the opportunity to save the firm's name AND get rid of Mommy Dearest simultaneously. Well played, Hannah (and getting to be the good child riding to the rescue, as usual, you old sly boots in your Erdem frock, you).

Good points, Peartree!

I would choose Stephen Mangan over Christie. He may not be drop dead gorgeous but he has a lovely kind of cheeky good looks.

They said she had to 'step down', didn't they? Not necessarily leave. I assumed they just meat she could not be the partner, Hannah would - and mum, if she wanted to stay, would be in a lesser role.

The mum had already been promising Hannah a partnership for ages and never given it to her, so this way Hannah does get it (one of them has to be partner for the name to be in there I think?).

I know it’s a drama but do people really live like this? Where abouts in London where those fantastic houses? Is there such a thing as having your own silent disco in what looked like a private square?
If they are so loaded where did they hide the staff? Why wasn’t anyone paid to clear up after the wedding?

If they are so loaded where did they hide the staff? Why wasn’t anyone paid to clear up after the wedding?

Because extras can really eat into your budget...?

But I agree - a quick mention of the part-time nanny that picked up Nathan and Hannah's kids after school and cooked dinner, or a glimpse of a caterer might have been good on the believability front. I'm a writer and if I skip those details, however brief a mention is, my beta-readers and agent pull me up on it.

Then again, my DH read the opening chapter of the new book and pointed out that I hadn't taken into account the migratory patterns of Russian ducks, so what jolts people out of their suspension of disbelief clearly varies...

Just caught the last episode - I agree the silent disco and the blondie singing were of a piece - it's the sort of thing that only happens on TV - I love that song. Still beats me why Rose and James got married, she seemed happy in the last episode, but there just doesn't seem to be much there. The way James threatened the vicar - is that hinting that he's got a more evil side to be revealed?

The houses looked fairly normal – well, for affluent people, but you know what I mean! –maybe 'recognisable' is a better word. They DO exist in London. They looked like a lot of done-up, extended Victorian terraces here do.

Was Rose's disco at her mother's house? I could well believe that it would be on a private square; again, not that uncommon in London.

Just caught up. NW character is horrible. I think what she has done is worse by marrying someone when you've just slept with someone else and would rather run away with that person. Then flirting all those years later and never being there.

For me her husband was a bit of a dick shagging a woman but it was trying to kiss the sister which makes him a right spanner and makes me question him.

Didn't think there was any chemistry between rose and her sniffing partner.

And yes how christie loves nw is completely unbelievable. I mean cummon. Really. In london as a good looking and richan he'd be long gone.

Yeah the Nathan/Hannah relationship makes you wonder how it lasted that long and across 3 dc. Her heart never seemed to be in it.

And yes how christie loves nw is completely unbelievable. I mean cummon. Really. In london as a good looking and richan he'd be long gone.

He did meet someone else but it didn't work out. It isn't beyond the realms of possibility that a man could be in love with a woman who doesn't quite match him in the looks department, you know!

Finally watched the last episode and found the whole series a case of style over substance. Really disappointing.

Also, What is it with the NW school of acting? Her mouth consistently moves 2 seconds before speaking! It was all I could see by the end

Finally finished...

I loved the music and family videos in the opening credits!

I really enjoyed it.

*On MN a while ago perhaps Easter 2017ish somebody was complaining that the neighbour had rented their house out for a legal drama - was it this?

But the OP complaint was that her DD or DS was revising for exams and maybe a piano exam or recital but the filming taking place next door was making too much noise into the night

(Perhaps the music/nerf gun episode)

Anyway does anyone else remember the thread, if so please could they link to it?

IIRC the op was annoyed about noise and parking and the fact that the homeowners had been paid ££££ and production company had paid for them to move to an apartment during filming, so they were all ok

Just the neighbours were left to suffer

Please tell me someone else remembers the thread?*

Subtitles You’re right it was this!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3012036-More-problems-with-neighbours-film-crew

Had a quick look through that thread Subtitles and someone queried whether it was the spilt they were filming and the op said it definitely wasn't

Don't some people think it was the same house as used in the surgeon one with John simm and Adrian Lester? So they would have 2 lots of TV crews in a year? Unless it's not the same house.

*would have had

I agree MelodyBirds