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Age Before Beauty - BBC1

180 replies

southeastdweller · 31/07/2018 20:58

Anyone else watching tonight?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bdn4wj

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MindBodyChocolate · 29/08/2018 21:58

Well that was bloody ridiculous.

flopsyrabbit1 · 29/08/2018 21:58

well look's like they have left it open for a new series oh god no no no

IcedPurple · 29/08/2018 22:01

I don't really get how the revelation that Terry had set the whole thing up suddenly meant everything was OK between Belle and Wes. I mean... Terry didn't drug him and place him in bed with Lorelei. He still cheated. Multiple times. But now Belle is welcoming her and her baby into the family? Like I say, none of it rings true. Real people don't behave like that.

FabulousUsername · 29/08/2018 22:07

FFS. I loved it. Never realised I was so shallow but I'm hoping there will be a sequel! I'm totally convinced they will all form a huge weirdly bonded family. Obvs the 3+ glasses of wine has helped but I'm astounded that a script of such unbelievable complexity could have been resolved in such an amazing episode. I'll be missing it! Star Grin

dogsdinnerlady · 29/08/2018 22:08

The Poldark novels were written by Winston Graham so I don't see why Debbie Horseface deserves any of the credit. All she's done is condensed a series of great books into a so-soTV format.

IcedPurple · 29/08/2018 22:08

I'm astounded that a script of such unbelievable complexity could have been resolved in such an amazing episode

Are you quite sure that when you said '3 glasses' you didn't really mean to say '3 bottles'?

Hepzibar · 29/08/2018 22:22

I keep watching this because it's just so bad I strangely can't tear myself away.

This in a nutshell.

The only believable character was Teddy, but his actions were unbelievable? Not sure that makes sense but the other characters did not have any credibility at all. Very shallow like me-

MarcieBluebell · 29/08/2018 22:26

The thing I hated most was the old parents of the sisters cheating on each other and being proud like they are to be revered. That 'always come home' malarky like a cheating spouse is fine.

mydogisthebest · 29/08/2018 22:30

Well that last episode was just ridiculous. It made me so angry that all the blame was put on the Robson Green character like he forced them all to cheat.

As for Belle and Wes getting back together, I thought that was pathetic

Chickenwings85 · 29/08/2018 22:32

I loved it! I hope they make a second series. There hasn't been anything decent to watch in ages until this come along.

flopsyrabbit1 · 29/08/2018 22:39

No wonder the kids relationships were bad,look at the parents eww

Monday55 · 29/08/2018 22:40

they both remarried to their ex-in-laws after 6months of revelation ? WTaF!

ballsdeep · 29/08/2018 23:04

What is god's name was going on. I was across to blink or one of the sisters would be shagginh someone else! What a load of cock wash. Why the hell did Bel and teddy turn up and the sisters wedding AFTER they had swapped partners? It was such a promising series at the start

MarcieBluebell · 29/08/2018 23:04

Wes is still an arse marrying someone just for kicks.

Agree it was all their fault.

In a way it reminded me of a Shakespearean comedy.

topcat2014 · 30/08/2018 07:28

I realised at the end that I didn't fully get everyone's names or relationships.

Only really twigged that one of the young boyfriends was the Belles son in the last episode.

You just wouldn't go to your ex husbands wedding would you?

Didn't the two pairs in Abba 'swap'?

The best thing for me was the pink bus - but then I am a bus nerd:

Volvo Olympian

LARLARLAND · 30/08/2018 07:33

I didn’t watch the last episode and I can’t believe why I am reading! The OW had a baby? Is that right? What happened to her? Then Robson Green married Polly and Polly’s husband married her sister?

FabulousUsername · 30/08/2018 07:50

Larl, in the sober cold light of day I still can't believe it myself. Yes, yes & yes. But even though I was watching 'ironically' I did enjoy it. What a visual feast and every single cliche was thrown in.

Topcat, kudos to you on your bus spotting! The pink bus was perfect. And are there really so many beauty millionaires??

topcat2014 · 30/08/2018 08:08

Bus driving lessons booked for half term :)

ballsdeep · 30/08/2018 08:12

It was awful. In the end Bel and Wes got back together and they Bel said they'd make it work with the baby !? Awful.

JaneJeffer · 30/08/2018 08:18

Didn't the two pairs in Abba 'swap'? I think you're mixing them up with Fleetwood Mac?

HelloGabriel · 30/08/2018 09:30

Surely Wes will just want Lorelei now? He wanted Bel back when he realised he'd made a mistake in cheating and treating her like shit as a result, but too much has happened since. The sensible thing would be to start a new life with Lorelei.

VanGoghsDog · 30/08/2018 09:34

Interesting that despite being a self-obsessed airhead the blonde sister had a bus driver's licence. Forward planning from her.

I was looking up the plot lines of Cutting It on Wiki the other day and this had pretty much the exact same storyline, crammed into fewer episodes.

Where did all the money come from anyway? Why were they all so rich? How did the PT afford to be at a yoga retreat?

6m from disclosure of all the affairs to two divorces sorted and both remarried? Um, yeah.....

Wouldn't blonde sister and RG have had a gazillion tests to find out why she wasn't getting preg - how did he keep covering that up then, isn't the sperm more or less the first thing they test?

Who really punches the air after sex ever with a woman they have yearned for for 30 years? That was really cringey.

What was the point of the footballer storyline (other than that it was straight outta Cutting it)? Why was dark sister dressed like an extra from Beetlejuice?

What did the title 'Age Before Beauty' have to do with it?

It was a lot like a Shakespearean morality play. With Wes as the fool, the kids as the conscience, RG as the baddie (though, all the flaws pointed out here - he couldn't actually make anyone shag anyone else).

Urgh. Hope Bodyguard is better.

MindBodyChocolate · 30/08/2018 10:30

I haven’t started on Bodyguard yet but please god let it be better. I was dying for something decent to watch and ABB has cheated me :)

SuburbanRhonda · 30/08/2018 11:33

Why did none of them have a cover on their phone?

MrsBosh · 30/08/2018 13:48

That birth was ridiculous. Waters break and baby born five mins later in one push. I think not.

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