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Thriller set in Ireland

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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 :)

QueenoftheNights
My point was that Ireland is not part of the U.K.
Our laws, in Ireland can be different to laws in the UK.

I thought his wife was upset in one of the episodes about the mistress.
His wife was very upset about the stolen money from the elderly patient.
Why was he in debt ? That wasn't made clear.
His wife would have been entitled to some care provided by the Irish health service but he would / could supplement that.

I think they referred to motor neurone, Queen.
Bean, he was paying for his lover’s place, had a mortgage on his own house, and was paying for his wife’s care.
Did I imagine it or did the lover have a child in some of the early scenes?

beanaseireann

Unless there have been cases of assisted suicide in Ireland I don't see and criminal convictions, I don't see why you are raising it.

It's NOT legal in the UK! It's classed as murder. BUT in all the cases that have come to court, the judges have shown compassion and no one has been sentenced.

I'm not sure why it's necessary to try to 'prove' he was a bad man. The fact is he had faults like all of us. My take on it is that the writer was trying to show conflict- how he was trying to manage his life, do his best for a range of people, some of it conflicting but deep down he loved his wife and was managing it all the best he could.

I think rather than focus on whether he was a 'baddie' it might be better to acknowledge that many people's lives are messy, a mix of good and bad, none of us know how we'd behave walking in their shoes.

It's not a case of taking the moral high ground trying to understand complex human emotions when shit happens to them.

Queen
My only point was to point out that Ireland is not in the UK.
Lots of Mumsnetters seem to think it is. That's all.

Yes I too wondered why he got rid of the frog but I think that’s a good suggestion, that it was because it was linked to/reminded him of the death.

Overall I thought it was pretty good although I did guess by episode 3 that it might have been a ‘mercy killing’. One thing I thought was a bit implausible was how Cat almost immediately thought her dad killed the mum- even if she had a memory of him beating up another man when she was a child, surely it’s still a bit of a leap?! Also, what was it they lied to her about? DId they say she’d imagined the whole going round to Barry’s dads house entirely?

Just finished watching this and I agree that it was brilliant. A pity that, tucked away on Channel 5, a lot of people will have missed it. Adrian Dunbar was fantastic, as was the girl who played Cat.

I think Jim did what he did out of love. He didn't seem that upset at the funeral though, but I think that was a red herring. The stone frog was also a red herring (ha!) we were obviously supposed to think he had hit Mary over the head with it.

When Cat was having hallucinations/flashbacks of seeing and talking to her mother, was that a different actress playing the mother to the one in the final episode? She looked different.

There were a few loose ends though, as pps said, what was it with the pervy cousin and the gun?

I think Cat was seeing the ghost of her mother when she was healthy, Pemba, before the motor neurone set in.
Yes, Bumble, I think they said she and her dad had never been to Barry’s dad’s house.
I enjoyed it, and thought it did a good job of showing that nothing is ever black or white. I just wish they’d tied up the loose ends, like the perv and the gun.

I guess the other thing is that Cat might not have jumped to the same conclusions about her dad if she'd seen her mother more recently. The implication was that she'd not visited in a while, so may not have witnessed the very marked decline in her mum's health? And maybe that's why she had the visions of her mum as healthy?

I think Jim did what he did out of love. He didn't seem that upset at the funeral though, but I think that was a red herring

Agree with this. I think sometimes when someone dies following a long-protracted illness - slow death if you like - the loved ones left behind have effectively done their grieving for months beforehand so by the time of the funeral they're all "grieved out" if that makes sense.

Yes, NewModelArmy, - Cat was probably feeling guilty as well that she didn’t make it home for what turned out to be her mom’s final weekend.