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Thriller set in Ireland

STARTS tonight and on all week

Cat arrives at her family home after finding out her mum was dead

SOUNDS good. Shame it’s up against iacgmooh as sure many will miss it as watching that

Yah for sky record :)

Well that was brilliant.

Optimist - oh come on. Anyone who could show that much love and compassion in that last episode can't be all bad.

I can understand now his annoyance with Cat. She kept away and then delayed her last visit to see her mum (without offering any reason) so didn't see her before she died.

People aren't necessarily completely good or completely bad. I thought it was great to show him as a complex, flawed character. Stealing the money was, as he explained, a spur of the moment thing - and he returned it.

I'm not sure why he was arrested- for stealing the money, on suspicion of murder (thanks Cat) or both?

Is this a book? If so, it has flaws or the TV adaptation has missed stuff out.

Really enjoyed it - flawed human beings, all of us. No one is black and white.

Queen - faking the autopsy of the bloke he attacked, killing his wife, stealing from a patient ...

I agree, nothing is black and white.

tinstar - my point, though, is that the events shown represent what he was telling Cat had happened - of course he would portray himself as supremely compassionate and sensitive. (Or perhaps I'm just miffed that my early prediction that the elder daughter was the culprit came to nothing!)

tinstar he didn't 'fake' the post mortum (autopsy is a US word not UK). There was a flash back where the man was seen to struggle and some bruising but it was inconclusive if it was foul play.

Money, yes he stole it but felt desperate and it was to pay for the care of his wife.

Killing? There have been many examples of this in the UK where a relative has carried out a 'mercy killing' of a loved one to put them out of their misery and in all cases when it's been brought to trial, they have been no charges.

His wife WANTED him to end her life. she asked him.

Were you watching the same programme as the rest of us?

The last episode was so poignant and made total sense. It wasn't a whodunnit as much as a whydunnit. I think the money issues were to do with the wife's care. Cat clearly quite an impulsive character (got it from her dad?).

Very well done and for not being a classic 'police procedural type murder drama' a double thumbs up.

(autopsy is a US word not UK).

Er okay

There was a flash back where the man was seen to struggle and some bruising but it was inconclusive if it was foul play.

And the dr claimed the bruises were self-inflicted. Maybe the police didn't know he'd attacked Barry's dad just before he died and if Cat told them they'd arrest him and reopen the case?

His wife WANTED him to end her life. she asked him.

And what proof did he have that she did and that he didn't kill her in a fit of frustration? The police would have arrested him and it would probably have led to a long drawn out court case with huge levels of publicity given his gp status.

Were you watching the same programme as the rest of us?

Did you mean to be so rude?

QueenoftheNights
Blood was set in Ireland, not the UK.
Laws are different.

Blood was set in Ireland, not the UK.Laws are different.

I'm not sure what your point is. In the UK, people who assisted suicide, or carried out 'mercy killings' have been arrested and tried in court. Have you not read about them over the years?

This is where this series stopped- his being arrested. We don't know the outcome. It's irrelevant.

The facts for me are he was a flawed human being, as are we all. He was given permission by his wife to have an affair ( we don't know how long it had gone on), he stole to pay for her care so his son didn't have to take more time off work, he himself had health problems probably due to the stress of caring for his wife, the final episode showed clearly how he did love his wife, putting her out of her pain as she asked him to do.

The build up to it all was to make us think he was a villain, but when you look back at the previous episodes, his dodgy behaviour was all in the eye of Cat. And the way it was filmed with dark lighting , stark sets, etc was to suggest he was menacing.

And what proof did he have that she did and that he didn't kill her in a fit of frustration

Because if you watched it , you would see there was no 'fit of frustration' - you'd see the agony of a man who carried out his wife's wishes and the pain was etched on his face as he kissed her for the last time and did as she was asking him.

Because her last words, repeated over and over again were (PLEASE' when he said he was going to call an ambulance.

Given her previous conversations with her son and him, she wanted to end her life before it became unbearable.

Didn't you pick up on what she was saying, or the agony on his face when he decided to do what she was asking?

That's what I mean about not watching the same programme. Not being rude- but genuinely surprised you seem to have missed that.

Because if you watched it , you would see there was no 'fit of frustration' - you'd see the agony of a man who carried out his wife's wishes and the pain was etched on his face as he kissed her for the last time and did as she was asking him.

Did he have any proof of that? No.

I think that was the beauty of the storytelling though. We'd been led (from Cat's perspective) to believe he was the villain, pure and simple, but he wasn't. I think the story premise was to show that life isn't as black or white as we may think. The twist of the story was that his wife's death wasn't some random act of evil but a case of assisted dying, done out of love (which is a fresh take on the usual genre).

To some extent Cat played a part in her friend's suicide

I don't think it was the writer's intention for the audience to doubt what he told Cat in the wood in episode 5.

In some ways Cat was a villain too - she stirred up bad memories for Barry who was already in a vulnerable state and then left him in possession of a gun which he ultimately used to end his own life.

Well, that ending & explanation wasn’t what I had expected.
It was beautifully acted & yy the premise that life is rarely black & white agree with NewModel
Glad I stuck with it, twas much better than the usual programme of that ilk especially when they are played out over a few episodes, as generally the ending is either a cop out or silly.

He was paying his mistress’s rent I think as well.

Oh yes - of course Ursula

Just finished the last episode - that was the saddest thing I’d watched in a long time. Beautiful too.

I assume the last episode is designed to be the truth, rather than the dad making it up.

I found it difficult to reconcile the caring tender husband with the one who was shagging the OW and who had basically ruined Cat’s life (in the sense that she had become the black sheep because they made her out to be a liar) but as others have said it shows nothing is black and white, we are all flawed. And what the dad had said about little decisions having huge consequences rang very true for me.

It was excellent I thought.

Finally seen. Had family round last night and didn’t want to miss through chatting

Wow I

And yes last episode showed dad to be caring and loving and making wife/mum feel loved and romanced

After she had a good day then fell and wanted to end it

They had obv spoken about it

Must be hard to kill the person you love to stop their pain

And act of love

Did we know mum was disabled /unable to care for self in e1

Agree not black and white

Different shades of grey

I thought this was a great series and keep saying it but shouldn’t to have been when jungle celeb on

And shown on bbc 1

A good thriller

Yes we knew she was disabled.

Why did he get rid of the frog?

Also maybe we are not meant to know the truth. We can never know the truth of something unless we we were there and even then we only see the truth through the prism of our own experiences.

Interesting review here and reference to some more Channel 5 drama coming our way - www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/nov/19/blood-has-channel-5-made-its-first-piece-of-prestige-tv

I guess it reminded him of her accident, Ursula - she hit her head on it when she fell, didn’t she?
But wouldn’t there be a PM and inquest or whatever the Irish equivalent is into her death? Given that although she was dying, she clearly wasn’t expected to die right then.
And I still don’t understand why the doctor invited the pervy cousin to stay, and why he lied to Cat that he hadn’t seen a gun???

I assumed his wife had motor neurone or MS.

It's also fully believable that she had given him permission to have another relationship (posters here who are slagging him off for shagging his mistress seem to have missed that bit when his wife told him she knew and was ok about it.)

Interestingly , there have been features in magazines/ newspapers where couples have come to this agreement - one is disabled and gives the other permission to a) have a sex life and b) find someone else. It's not pure fiction - does happen in RL.

I also thought Cat was a meddler- she stirred things up and jumped to conclusions very quickly.