Mum series 3 - spoiler-ridden thread for the binge-watchers!

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Just finished it. I haven't processed it enough to say anything coherent quite yet but I'm feeling all emotional. Going to miss it immensely.

Agree that sex with Derek was to obliterate thought of ex & prove that she & Derek had sex going for them

Yes that's what I think too.

I had no idea they hadn't even kissed

Cheeseboard

Playing chess with a dice!

Pauline is grieving her previous marriage. It happens.
Even if Derek is better for her than ex was.
I feel sorry for her sometimes then she's a bitch again and I wonder why I ever did!
She is complex.

A Christmas special with the baby would be awesome.

I’ve not read anything above cos I’m only on episode 4...... but I really wanna smash Jason’s face in and slap Cathy. The things he says to Michael are awful and I’m frustrated that no one answers back or says anything!!

@youngestisapsycho - there's a non-spoiler thread here

I know but didn’t want to talk about episode 4 on it... I’m half way thru last one now!

Jason is a twat to the very end.

I loved Cathy getting more rebellious by the minute and yay for a happy ending.

Kelly has matured so much, by the time that babies five she’d be unrecognisable!

You really got a sense of how unpleasant the dead husband/father had been especially with what Jason said at the end about being his own baby up.

Yes Dave seemed like he was a prat. All the references to jumping into the pool and him being the life and soul of the party. It’s a shame they showed that last exchange between Jason and Cathy because prior to that he had been nicer to Michael talking about the bowling and the shelves.
I definitely got the feeling that Jason intended to be a different type of father to his dad.

Will there be a series with the new baby?!

"I might get a puppy or learn Chinese otherwise I'll just be waiting for the baby to wake up"

I wondered if Pauline insisting on sex was to prove to herself she was desirable after Derek was talking about the attractive waitress.
My fave bit with the grandparents was when she was catastrophising about the rain 'and I'll be screaming from the wreckage'

I didn’t get the Pauline and derek bits towards the end if I’m honest. Many different possible explanations - I think i’ll have to rewatch.

In the earlier series’ I got the impression Dave was lovely and really on Cathy’s side, sensible and intelligent. But from this series he seems a bit of a tool and Cathy’s ‘old fashioned’ comment made it seem as though perhaps they weren’t quite the team I’d taken them to be before.

Posting without reading as I haven't finished it yet. Will come back after I'm done.

Just wanted to say that I've binged watched it up to half way through the Friday episode and I think I'll have to stop for a bit before carrying on. My heart can't take it!

Spoilers

The chat about his Dad between Jason and Cathy, in ep 4, undid me (my Dad died a year ago) and then the "you melt me like butter" scene, dear god! Just finished watching Dave's Mum and Dad talking about him and Reg's little voice crack at the end has finished me off. 😭

Ok I lied. Couldn't help myself.

Loved the go fuck yourself and Pauline's smirk. "Well done."

Pauline talking about touching a pregnant bump, I'm certain she wanted children and couldn't have them. Infertility (for whatever reason) is a horrible complicated messy thing to experience and I could see that's what they were doing with Pauline. Remember how patient and kind she was with the goth step daughter last series, when she helped her with her knitting? She'd never admit to a 'weakness' so the anti baby talk is to cover that up and channel some of the hurt.She's not evil she's just very sad and angry. and a bit of a cow

'She's not evil' That should say! Although she's really vile to poor Derick. The sick in the bed was horrible! We'd all be LTB if he posted on here. No excuse for it.

I've been waiting for you from the very first words you ever said to me, when you told me you only ate crisps for dinner because your Mum was in a mood.
And Dave went and got you a pint and we waited for him together by the gents.
And I knew I was in trouble.
You melt me like butter, Cathy, you do.
You melt me like fucking butter.

From the start in series one you get the sense that the late Dave was the ' big man' who won Cathy's heart but then became complacent. Life and soul but with a darker moody side : liked to be in control of things and the first at the bbq cooking it all but not around for the washing up. His presence has been felt every series and he was nothing like Michael.

My very favourite moment was when Cathy was sitting in the window seat just after she’d told Jason and slightly nodded at Michael in the doorway. His smile! And turning away as if he couldn’t cope with the emotion. Perfect.

Ohhh yes, the little glance and nod from the window seat. Heart-melting.

I loved Jason and Kelly after they'd been trying to work out where they were going on their walk and they thought it was Cathy who was being dim.

-She's like an old iPhone, babe.
-Yeah, exactly like an old iPhone.
-And maybe one with a cracked screen.

I don't think Jason's really a twat - he was acting like one for the first few days but he's just really struggling with the loss of his dad still and trying to process his mum moving on.

I was really annoyed by Jason going on about how women get confused easily, and need looking after. He came across as misogynistic, but I can't understand why Cathy doesn't pull him up on it more. Or is there a deeper meaning behind it? I find him really hard to like!

Jason was voicing his dead dad's opinions,he started to slowly realise this at the end of the final episode.