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The Accident - Channel 4

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southeastdweller · 24/10/2019 20:25

The latest Sarah Lancashire drama starts tonight, from the writer of Kirri and National Treasure. Anyone else planning to watch?

www.channel4.com/programmes/the-accident

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CoolCarrie · 24/10/2019 23:24

Dh said there was no way the police would allow the people to be standing outside the barrier when those body bags were brought out, and everyone would have be moved out of the way. It was disappointing, but the new drama Guilt , on Wednesday BBC 2 with the lovely Mark Bonnar looks promising and it’s filmed in Edinburgh

Looobyloo · 25/10/2019 06:17

@rolytherhino oh I see. I thought the woman said "we need to get you talking" then wanted her to say the alphabet. Judging by the writing it wouldn't have been to shocking.
I couldn't hear a lot though (I'm also a bit deaf)

RolytheRhino · 25/10/2019 06:36

@Loobyloo that's what I thought at first too, I only realised because of all the blinking. Then again, as Twitter pointed out, who can make it through the alphabet without blinking?

RolytheRhino · 25/10/2019 06:38

I also thought it was rather harsh of the mother to tell her all her friends were dead in that moment. Surely she's got enough to contend with? You'd have said they were in the hospital but you'd not seen them (not a lie, technically), wouldn't you?

Loopytiles · 25/10/2019 06:45

Grim.

NoSauce · 25/10/2019 07:10

I love SL but this was shite. I couldn’t tell what she was saying half the time. I didn’t like the way she cuddled him after he punched her, not sure where that storyline is going.

I noticed on the trailer for next week, SL was sat on the bed with her H on the floor, she was holing him and he had his jeans around his ankles. I reckon it’s going to take some kind of weird, pervy direction.

LIZS · 25/10/2019 07:22

Anther series shot with low lighting and sound to the point of losing comprehension. It all felt somewhat improbable. A rural cottage hospital with capacity for a major incident, no intensive care for a patient with multiple injuries, trauma and possible paralysis. Emergency services had left the scene by nightfall. How would they know all were dead given they had no idea who was inside. Disappointing after all the hype.

CaptainMyCaptain · 25/10/2019 07:35

I agree with what people say about the general rubbishness but, two things:

Surely the man who rescued daughter did not just happen to be walking past - and then got through all the security fencing to get in then ran into an exploding building not knowing anyone was inside.

The 'baddie' woman said something to the effect of 'how can there be a gas explosion it's not connected to the gas' so maybe the gas cylinders shouldn't have been there.

I'll have to continue watching now to find out.

JosephineDeBeauharnais · 25/10/2019 07:54

There should have been some warning ahead of the DV scene, either in the trailer or at the start of the programme. It made me feel physically sick and I've never experienced it, so god knows how it would make someone feel who had.

Frillyfarmer · 25/10/2019 08:09

I agree @JosephineDeBeauharnais the DV scene has made me feel more uncomfortable than anything else I've seen on TV in recent memory - a feeling that was compounded when she affectionately embraced him afterwards.

dogsdinnerlady · 25/10/2019 08:14

Is SL's character's husband connected with the construction company or is he just a district councillor? If the later he would have limited influence on whether the building went ahead.
If a bunch of kids with lighters and phones break into a restricted site then who else is responsible? Isn't the deaf woman's partner the security guy so are they suggesting he wasn't doing his job? In the RW there would have been proper security arrangements. Drivel.

mummabubs · 25/10/2019 08:38

@RolyTheRhino actually that is a method used to support communication for people who aren't able to speak in that circumstance! That's the one bit of credit I'll give them on their portrayal 😂😂

53rdWay · 25/10/2019 08:45

That DV scene was awful. It felt like showing brutality for the sake of showing brutality, like the scriptwriters were marching you around the storyline bellowing “THIS IS HARROWING, BY THE WAY. HARROWING” into your ear.

It also felt really rushed for the sake of getting to the next harrowing scene. Why would the parents have suspected so fast the teenagers were in there, why would the search-and-rescue operation move and wrap up so fast when they couldn’t know who was in there? How did Corporate Woman In Suit get there so fast?

When Genevieve Barr’s character suggested the eye-blinking alphabet thing I thought it was meant to show how unrealistic they were being in wanting answers and communication so fast from a girl with massive trauma and a brain injury. But nope, it worked. Hmm

Fabatfortysomething · 25/10/2019 08:51

Glad I didn't give this a go having read this thread Grin

GlitteryNow · 25/10/2019 08:53

The alphabet bit was weird, yes as a way to help someone communicate a days down the line but not immediately. With a severe head injury she would have been ventilated for at least 24 hrs as a pp said, unless I missed a bit and it was a day later. Yes it's a drama but things like this matter, it has got to be plausible.

I wanted to like it but there was too much slow motion and the dv was obviously disturbing but also seemed gratuitous violence in an already grim drama. The site would have been closed off to spectators well before bodies were brought out. I'll watch next weeks anyway I'm curious to see what happens next.

Horehound · 25/10/2019 08:55

I didn't watch it yet..should I?!

NoSauce · 25/10/2019 08:58

Horehound I wouldn’t bother, personally. It’s one of the worst things I’ve seen on TV in a long time.

RolytheRhino · 25/10/2019 08:58

Fair enough @mummabubs.

Surely the man who rescued daughter did not just happen to be walking past - and then got through all the security fencing to get in then ran into an exploding building not knowing anyone was inside.

My bet is he was involved in what happened somehow- the expression on his face after the teen's mother left made me think that.

motorcyclenumptiness · 25/10/2019 08:59

The slomo and shouty dramatic music didn't bode well and the script was like a last minute piece of homework cobbled together from The Big Book Of Gritty Drama. What a waste of good actors.

MrsGrindah · 25/10/2019 09:29

I’ve had to watch it twice now and it didn’t get any better! Grin

So many unrealistic scenes, but the ones that really annoyed me were how the SL character immediately blamed the corporate woman..she didn’t even know if her daughter was safe at that moment, surely that would have been all she could focus on?

The doctor just breaking patients confidentiality

The daughter with serious head injuries who immediately gets the gist of using the alphabet...and the friends who just marches in and instinctively knows what to do

Oh..and everyone has to be a bit drab ,overweight and scruffily dressed so you know that are Salt Of The Earth.Whereas the baddie woman is slim and groomed.

Susiesoap7 · 25/10/2019 10:08

Didn't like it, though I like sarah Lancashire, the DV scene was awful!
That upset me more than anything

motorcyclenumptiness · 25/10/2019 10:15

I’ve had to watch it twice now
You've watched it twice more than the TV critics who gave this tripe 4 starsHalloween Grin

SouthWestmom · 25/10/2019 10:31

Very surprised at the four star reviews in the press and the complete opposite on Twitter.

The hospital looked like some old Victorian institute, no nurses hanging around to check on the patients just little rooms.

Wouldn't they be told not to tell her the others were dead? And when SL was like 'the others? .... ohhhh' like there were any other possibilities.

CaptainMyCaptain · 25/10/2019 10:48

That's what I thought RolytheRhino very suspicious. We are supposed to blame the kids because they were trespassing (although the parents clearly don't) and it will turn out to be him.

Sagradafamiliar · 25/10/2019 10:57

From the trailers, I'd assumed that it would be like a U.K. version of The Returned (small community, loss of the teenagers theme).
Can't believe what a bag of balls it turned out be. From the opening scene 'oh you look about 40, she's 15 you know, go on then, off you pop' to set the scene of the 'rebellious teen' complete with scene hair 'do, to....the entire rest of the episode.
Don't mind a bit of suspension of disbelief but when the viewer is taken for a pure idiot and then the acting also sucks, its not good.