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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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53rdWay · 25/10/2019 11:02

Rescuer bloke will turn out to have been the one storing the gas canisters in there, and SL character will be torn between her urge to find Someone To Blame! and her gratitude that he saved her daughter.

Oh also he’ll be the person who contacts her anonymously to let her know about the gas and whatever cover-up is probably coming. And she won’t know it’s him to start with and there’ll be a big shocking reveal at the end of the episode.

Bet you.

PuppyMonkey · 25/10/2019 11:50

Enjoyed reading back through this thread to see the comments getting more and more Hmm as the show went on last night. It was laughably awful.

The first thing that put me off was the start, where the building exploded, and the parents all immediately panicked because their wayward kids must be inside. Eh? Why would you even assume that?Confused

What would have been far more powerful was the building exploding and the shock from the locals very gradually turning into doubt, then worry, then a slow realisation that your kid was missing and where were they? Oh no, they’ve found bodies inside. Etc.

The DV thing was clumsy and unnecessary and no I couldn’t understand a single word Sarah Lancashire said.

SouthWestmom · 25/10/2019 12:14

Yeah I didn't get why he lay on her to hit her. Had a horrible feeling they were going to chuck in a rape scene for a bit of added spice. Whole thing was grim in a bd way.

mummabubs · 25/10/2019 13:07

Agree completely @GlitteryNow

UrsulaPandress · 25/10/2019 15:52

Great write up in The Telegraph as well.

It's almost as if they didn't watch the programme, just read a synopsis and presumed it would be good because of the cast and the writer.

Bit worried now as it's the same person who has written His Dark Materials for tv .......

StayAChild · 25/10/2019 16:04

Absolutely awful! The initial daughter bedroom scene was enough to indicate how shite this was going to be. Who the hell would make a young lad jump out of a second storey window? He could have broken his back.

The DV scene was truly shocking. I sadly read on here about DV but seeing it happen like that, with no warning was horrifying.

I couldn't tell a word of what SL was saying. What a truly awful accent. Loved her in Happy Valley too.

GlitteryNow · 25/10/2019 16:14

'The initial daughter bedroom scene was enough to indicate how shite this was going to be. '

I thought that and to stand there while he was getting dressed Confused. The daughter was 15! If she'd have been a bit older it could have been more believable, but yes you'd help sneak them out of the house rather than risk them breaking something jumping out of a window.

DagenhamRoundhouse · 25/10/2019 16:44

The best thing I saw SL in was 'The Cry from 2002, a TV movie about a woman who loses her baby to cot death and steals another one, then goes on the run. It was brilliant. Sometimes repeated on Sky but not recently.

MissLadyM · 25/10/2019 16:52

It was crap! Guilty on BBC was magnificent!

pinksparkleunicorns · 25/10/2019 17:39

Agree with all the points above.

Also at the start she did that old woman's hair and then the old lady left while she still had foils in her hair? What? Surely you, as a hairdresser, should check the colour has taken and then take the foil off at the right time? The old bat could get in a right pickle if that foul stays on too long, or her hair wouldn't be done properly if it came off too soon? But SL didn't seem to give a fuck. Assume the hair didn't need a cut either?

It was also odd that she didn't say THANK YOU to the guy that saved her daughters life in the hospital. She just gave him her card and barked at he nurse to look after him.

The father was awful but it just wasn't believable.

The woman who yelled 'well she's dead' about her own daughter while walking out the hospital and then screaming at everyone later 'NO SINGING'. Also just so very strange?

SouthWestmom · 25/10/2019 18:44

Oh yeah, 'no singing!' Why not?

BestIsWest · 25/10/2019 18:54

Awful, just awful and I wanted it to be good because a friend was an extra in it and has been so excited.
Why would they assume their children were inside the building?
It didn’t make sense.
The DV scene was horrendous.

mustangs · 25/10/2019 20:43

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.

^^ Yes, this. Absolutely. I was thinking the same thing, @MrsGrindah

And I will word this very carefully (I have always battled with my weight) but Sarah Lancashire is not looking healthy at the moment.

UrsulaPandress · 25/10/2019 21:14

You see I love that Sarah doesn’t seem to care about her figure.

mustangs · 25/10/2019 21:17

I also love that she doesn't care. I take my fucking hat off to her for it. And in an industry that is often so heavily biased towards an 'ideal' shape.

thegreylady · 25/10/2019 21:30

I thought it was screened too close to the anniversary and location of the Aberfan disaster. Very different in many ways but the waiting parents and the community grief and anger were too close for comfort for me.

Idontneeditatall · 25/10/2019 21:36

I’m confused about how the girl survived. They said the man managed to get her closer to the door which is why she survived but didn’t we see her laying on the floor, trapped and then the ceiling falling on her while she was screaming?

IHaveBrilloHair · 25/10/2019 22:55

It was hilariously crap.
I loved Guilt though.

Frillyfarmer · 25/10/2019 22:58

@Idontneeditatall I thought that was her friend? The one that had the haribo sandwich.

I didn't think they assumed their kids were in there, more than a completely unexplained explosion had gone off locally - you would naturally call your children to check where they are and tell them to get home? At that point it could have been a terror attack etc.

I thought the husband was just odd not going to the hospital etc when he didn't know whether his daughter was dead or alive and then not wanting to see her once she was alive?

Vagndidit · 25/10/2019 23:55

That was absolute rubbish. Inshould't be surprised It is Channel 4 But given the positive reviews and calibre of talent involved, I was expecting a bit more...something. Anything?

There isn't a single likable character. Miserable rebellious teens, miserable mothers, crazy abusive husband/politician, glam foreign executive and her boytoy, and the obesity crisis in the Welsh valleys. Nope. Nothing to see here. Just no bloody singing. Ok'?

KatyCarrCan · 26/10/2019 00:06

I wish I'd read this thread earlier. I just watched it on the strength of the trailer Sad
Honestly I thought I'd missed parts eg the way they assumed the teens were inside; the way the woman said 'she's dead' and just walked out of the hospital; the DV followed immediately by a silent cuddle. It was as though it was badly edited.
As for the DD being able to blink her way through the alphabet and the nurses leaving her on her own with her mum and any random who wandered in Hmm I suffered a similar head injury at a similar age - no way did I have energy for that much blinking Grin

purpleme12 · 26/10/2019 00:14

I'm watching it now and I've got to the but where the husband assaults the wife finding this really disturbing. Want expecting this. It was like proper calculated

LolaDabestest · 26/10/2019 09:29

What a load of shit, shit acting, can hardly understand sl fake welsh accent. And so many pointless triggering scenes, the girl in bed with a much older bloke and then the dad making a joke about it later on awful. It’s neither here nor there and none of the characters are likeable. That’s 50 minutes I’m not getting back.

Moondancer73 · 26/10/2019 09:41

@noeuf - glad it's not just me that thought it.
I won't be watching a second episode. The woman who lost her daughter showed no emotion at all and the others weren't much better. Very disappointing.

BestIsWest · 26/10/2019 10:10

I’m welsh and had to watch it with subtitles on.

Also thought screening it days after the Aberfan anniversary was poor.