Safe on Netflix ( released 10th May) - with spoilers

[NurseButtercup]

This looks quite good. I fancy watching this and posting running commentary as I finish each episode. Anybody watching? Here's the trailer:

I'm on Episode 5 now

I kept wondering what it was reminiscent of and then it clicked it was Broadchurch

Find the vigilantism of Pete and Tom a bit ridiculous and The Marshalls hit a weirdly comedic tone which is either intended or all 3 are terrible actors

Otherwise good but hope they don't drag it on beating a dead horse like they did Broadchurch

RISE UP TING TING LIKE GLITTER AND GOLD

I recognise Zoe from her role in the French drama Spiral/Engrenage she plays a real bitch at the start in that

I really enjoyed it, I started watching on Friday or Saturday night and just finished it,
I might have missed it but they never showed who went into Chris' parents house when they went to check on the fire at Helen's.

No I don't think they showed that. I'm guessing it was Bobby looking for the tape?

Started this last night finished it today. Good for a binge watch. Guessed the ending by episode 7 but still kept me glued to the screen till the end.
Will have a look for a HC book if this is the style

I’m in the minority here, but I really didn’t like it. It was like a shit broadchurch and MCH’s English accent got worse with every episode.

I’m on episode 3 and enjoying it, but what on earth is the party family all about? They’re so far fetched it’s almost ruining it for me.

Every other character and story line is the right level of serious, and then these 3 clowns are bordering on ridiculous.

A bit of black comedy shoehorned in. Reminded me a bit of Santa Clarita Diet

Just finished it.

I enjoyed it but it was a bit hokey.

And I thought his accent was good. (Much better than Olivia Coleman’s West Country accent in Broadchurch).

I think you need to compare it to some of the utterly shit dramas we have been subjected to and be grateful there’s a proper ending with a proper baddie who gets caught......

Such a shame bbc didn’t pick this up.

i have just finished it and was shocked at the ending, enjoyed it, but omg las episodes were so slow.

I really loved it having finished it a couple of days ago.

I really enjoyed it although agree that the Dr running around playing detective was all a bit daft, and there were a couple of plot holes.

Or maybe I just wasn't paying attention - am I right in thinking that in the opening episode Jenny goes to the party to look for Chris and sees him and is annoyed that he is getting drunk, because in the last episode with the flashback she can't find him. The idea that he could have been murdered outside in the swimming pool without anyone seeing is a complete nonsense - as if there wouldn't be dozens of people outside at a party like that, smoking, talking, snogging etc...

I sussed out whodunnit but not why. Good ending, for a change, so many of these things fizzle out.

Is Harlan Coben worth reading then? I liked that it was set in the UK, not sure I would have stuck with a US equivalent, but presumably all his books are set over there?

yes he's a good author. He has one series of books about a detective Mylon Bolitar which is really good - they are what I would call Airplane books! Those are set in the US as are most of his standalone thrillers. They are easy page turners.

Yes, I agree, most of the characters are ok other than party family who are just so ridiculous, they bring the entire script down! The scenes with the disposal of the body - I wasn't sure if I was meant to be laughing but it was almost as though they were on some BBC1 comedy!

I'm about half way through...

I liked the party family, Understandable in that their whole life could be ruined by drugs taken at the party.

Margot, came to say the exact thing, any teenage party seems that most of them are outside not in, even in bleak winter!! No one outside having a fag/snog etc made it very u relaistic. And half the people involved in the fire all lived in the same gated community?! They’d want to never see each other again.
That said it was watchable stuff, I too was so distracted by an English Dexter!!

I enjoyed it, but it certainly did stretch credulity at times - as pp have said, why are all the people involved in the fire 30 years ago living on the same couple of roads in a gated estate? Perhaps if it was small-town America in the middle of nowhere, but in the UK? Not likely. Agree likewise the lack of people outside at the party.

I thought it was fun - it reminded me of 24 in the good old days, the way that the story paced out over the episodes. I wonder why it was decided to set in in the UK? It didn't sit right, the point above about all the people still being in the same place, plus little things like the teenagers playing beer pong at the party. I wonder if it was cheaper to film it here... Props to Dexter for the accent though! I thought it was decent.

binged it on the weekend and loved it!