Back to Life - anyone watching?

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This is being pushed as the new Fleabag. Hard to like Miri so far. Who has she murdered?

Just started....

Me too.

Hmmm. I need a backstory.

just came on here to see if anyone had seen it

my impression is that she didnt intend to murder anyone and i wonder if her friend mandy was there too?

I binge watched 4 episodes. I like it! Quite dark. She is a talent. Am confused by the guy following her around though.

I thought from episode 4 it got really good. Dark but funny bits.

i dont like her mum and her ex eww

Seriously grim!

Seen first. Quite liked it

Must be hard to start again after being inmorison for so long

And was that her mum in the car with the lover

I have just watched all 6 episodes and enjoyed it. The first couple were a bit slow and Miri doesn't seem likeable or engaging at first. She definitely grew on me and I started to like and sympathise with her character. The Dad, Mum, Bill next door and the biscuit-snaffling probation officer were my favourite characters overall. Not really like Fleabag at all, apart from having a 30-something protagonist. The story was very good too, kept you guessing.

We ended up watching all six episodes in one big binge. Really liked it, very darkly funny at times.

If anyone can pm me spoilers/synopsis I would really appreciate it thanks x

On episode 2 now and enjoying it

Anyone else still watching

I liked it, watched it all in one go. But I felt the investigator guy became a bit pointless and also the reason why Lara was so angry with Miri and the whole crux of the incident was pretty obvious. If Dom knew about the rumours, loads of people must have so why didn't Miri or the investigator? And also would people really be that angry/concerned about it 18 years later? There was a lot of retribution going on.

I watched 2 episodes and my mind about it. Thought the mum and the ex in a relationship was a bit unnecessary .

I wasn’t sure about the mum. The mum is shagging/wanking her daughters ex?

It just another bearded man

Watching week by eeek so no spoilers please

I’m assuming that she didn’t actually kill her girl and was innocent but jailed

I kept watching to the end but found it all too unbelievable. I know unbelievable is okay if something else (such as humour) compensates. But I just couldn't suspend my disbelief.

Also found it a bit too preachy at times and trying too hard to deliver a message. Didn't do it for me, but in saying all that, something kept me watching - I guess the hook of finding out what actually happened.

I wonder if you would actually go back to the scene of the crime as it were, back to your childhood home.

I really enjoyed this and like Miri from the start. I am a huge fan of Daisy Haggard; she was great in Green Wing and one of my favourite characters in Episodes.

I enoyed it but the mother mase me queezy

I liked a lot of elements, not sure everything worked as a whole though.

Great to see Christine Bottomley do something different though, she always seems to play the same character.

Impressed with the dad hitting mums affair

Let alone moist pussy !!

And no sign of neighbour this week

Will miri get win fish bar owner

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I'm with cora on this.
We are expected to believe that…

1. An 18 year old would have got 18 years without parole

1. That her defence of it being self-defence, despite having a bite mark, would not have reduced the sentence

1. That neither 3rd friend nor boyfriend would have mentioned the policeman having an affair as part of her defence/motive for best friend biting her in the first place which she defended herself from

1. That the defence or appeal lawyer or a hired private detective who would have done enquiries to that effect - why they had been fighting - would have drawn a blank over 18 years

1. That the victim's diary had not been found in evidence previously or if found, had not been destroyed already to protect the policeman's reputation

1. That the community would respond as they did after nearly two decades when she pushed the victim sustaining head injury with no other details that would make the crime notorious/that such a death would not have been manslaughter in the first place

I liked the series as a whole but the plot holes are flipping ginormous and more of a crime than Miri ever did