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DUBLIN MURDERS - mon and tue 9pm BBC’s

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Blondeshavemorefun · 13/10/2019 14:02

Starts tomorrow

When a young, talented ballerina is found dead on an ancient stone altar, her death drags up another tragedy that befell this community years before - when three children disappeared into the local woods and only one returned

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Rollergirl11 · 29/10/2019 22:35

I’m starting to loose my rag with it. The Lexie storyline is farcical. What students live like that??! Sitting on the floor playing parlour games listening to music from the 1920’s. As if!! This storyline is fucking shit and ruins the program.

And as someone else says how come someone hasn’t spotted two identical people walking around the same city? Cassie was spotted by the pregnant woman tonight so how come that hasn’t happened before??!

Charley50 · 29/10/2019 22:45

It's fucking ridiculous. Absolutely fucking ridiculous! Still enjoying it though, not quite sure why..? 😱😱😱

Encyclo · 29/10/2019 23:09

It's totally bonkers. I'm in it for the long haul now though.

I'm secretly hoping for a second series 🙈.

Missanneshirley · 29/10/2019 23:46

Do we know who the man who just got stopped by the police in the car is? The one Lexie/Cassie met in the woods?

Starksforthewin · 30/10/2019 02:04

I have nearly given up on this so many times...

The Cassie/Lexie undercover op is utter shit. Looks like she has been found out now....

I’m actually not enjoying it. Hanging on for the glimpses of Conleth Hill who steals every scene he is in, just like on Game of Thrones. 😀

Piggywaspushed · 30/10/2019 06:59

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DUBLIN MURDERS - mon and tue 9pm BBC’s
BIWitch · 30/10/2019 07:42

Somehow it made more sense in the book! Grin

Northernsoullover · 30/10/2019 07:49

I also sat down for the 'final' episode last night. I can't believe I've got to go another week! I'm ridiculously confused.

PlasticPatty · 30/10/2019 09:03

I've forgiven everything now I know the detective fella was Cody in 'Jack Taylor'.

fessmess · 30/10/2019 09:23

I am about to watch episode 4 and skimmed this thread to see if others feel the same as me. Yes, it would seem. I am finding it really complicated and ridiculous at times. Not sure whether to carry on.

Squigean · 30/10/2019 09:48

I'm enjoying. Yes it's far fetched but if you don't expected realism is helps!!

Also I'm no longer confused. I mean I haven't an idea what the denouement might be but have managed to figure out who's who!!

Fatshedra · 30/10/2019 12:52

Cassie wandering in the woods at night with a torch, just to make sure any mad murderer knows she there, and has loud chats with police officers/ bribers whilst everyone else sits in the house reading and playing card games with no slight worry or suspicion despite her having nearly died a couple of weeks before from some random stabbing her in the abdomen.
There is suspending disbelief and there is crap story writing.This is def the latter.

OnlyTheTitOfTheIceberg · 30/10/2019 13:22

One of the things that I can remember from The Likeness (book) which didn't come over anywhere near as well - possibly at all - in last night's episode is how claustrophobic and on edge Cassie being Lexie in the house felt, always worried she would let something slip that would give herself away and having to second guess every action and decision. The TV adaptation definitely isn't doing that justice. I get that it's harder, because in a book you can have an internal monologue whereas you have to show it all on TV, but I think they could have found a way to show us more of the strain Cassie is under pretending to be not only undercover, but impersonating someone that was known to the people she's living with (even if the identity 'Lexie' assumed was itself fake).

AmIScary · 30/10/2019 13:31

I'm totally engrossed in this.

I expect to be confused. As long as it's all explained in the end then the more confused the better

happilybemused · 30/10/2019 16:20

Is she pregnant or not ? Couldn't work it out

SkintSanta · 30/10/2019 17:16

I think we can assume she is pregnant. We know ‘Lexie’ was pregnant, and that they were her pregnancy tests from her wardrobe in her clothes. The used test showed the same result as the one Cassie tested with. Assuming the green tick is the positive indication and the purple line is the control line. Time frame would indicate Sams unless we’ve managed to jump a whole two weeks and in which case it’s probably Robs.

EggysMom · 30/10/2019 17:38

What was with the guy in the woods, the document and the cheque? Was Lexie actually selling the house/land to the motorway developers, against the desire of her housemates, but Daniel found out and killed her? At the end of the episode it suggested he knew Lexie was dead and that Cassie was an imposter ...

BIWitch · 30/10/2019 18:29

The strange guy in the woods is the guy who's been calling Lexie's phone. Cassie didn't know he was going to be there, and blagged her response to him.

The whole 'pretending to be Lexie' thing was really stretched last night though - she's only just come out of hospital after having been stabbed - no way could she have run so quickly to chase down the bloke who threw the stone through their window!

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Blondeshavemorefun · 30/10/2019 20:56

Yes very unlikely she would be out running and dancing a day after being stabbed

Did she really have a tattoo on her wrist , looked like she was having a real one done

The bloke in the woods she didn’t know who she was or what he wanted but the cheq is obv a pay out by now wants more

Who is Shane? Why are the police so thrilled to find him

Was he the tramp /3rd teenager

Hope we get a proper ending and not like the standing rock or whatever it was called - the one set in oz

And

recap e6

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Charley50 · 30/10/2019 21:40

Shane is the tramp who was the quiet teenager when the two kids disappeared.
Adam/ cop is desperate for Shane to unlock the secret to the murders, as that will take the heat off the quest to find Adam. And it will solve the murders.

JemimaTab · 30/10/2019 22:13

It’s got very silly. The Lexie part of the plot is like a young teenager wrote it - incredibly far-fetched, in so many ways. Is it more credible in the book?

Corneliawildthing · 30/10/2019 22:30

I have finally given up after episode 5. I don't do confused and like everything to make sense, so obviously it isn't for me. I was just about coping until the Lexie nonsense started.

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Blondeshavemorefun · 30/10/2019 22:34

I was right :) thanks @Charley50

So many names. I get confused

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BIWitch · 30/10/2019 22:38

@JemimaTab Yes, it's more credible in the book (although still rather far-fetched!). Cassie's, in the separate book, focuses much more on her skill and experience in undercover work so it does set her up as someone who can blend in with credibility. Also, the backstory of the students is set up a bit more - whereas in the TV series it's all been rather rushed.

I have no idea why the scriptwriters decided to amalgamate the two books though. It just makes it all seem unnecessarily complicated.

BIWitch · 30/10/2019 22:39

Sorry - Cassie's story in the separate book ..