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The Drowning starts tonight on C5 at 9pm for 3 evenings Jill Halfpenny and Rupert Perry-Jones

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stumbledin · 01/02/2021 16:00

Know nothing about this but have found some C5 original dramas quite good!

For anyone who like me is still trying to find something actually worth watching.

www.channel5.com/show/the-drowning/

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EggysMom · 05/02/2021 12:48

@chestnutshell

Was it ever explained why Jodie couldn’t get a dbs?
Nope. We are left to wonder if there was something in her past that might prevent it; or whether she thought that having a drowned child might preclude her.
UnusuallyUsual · 05/02/2021 12:57

chestnutshell
Was it ever explained why Jodie couldn’t get a dbs?

It appeared to me that in the programme she applied for the job and started the next day! Where as in reality it take sometime to complete the checks.

UnusuallyUsual · 05/02/2021 13:02

#OnlyTheLangoftheTitBerg
I'm with you in wanting answers to all those questions... Maybe it will all become apparent in Series 2 Grin

stumbledin · 05/02/2021 14:01

Have to say I was disappointed in this. Not just the plot holes but wanted it to be good as Jill Halfpenny nearly always gets the second fiddle role, rather than the lead.

I think I watch too many crime dramas as this seemed to have bits from this one and that one.

Actually thought the family scenes were better than the crime bits.

Just out of interest does anyone known where it was filmed. Specifically the lake or is it a resevoir. All those alien species trees so densely planted.

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Graciebobcat · 05/02/2021 14:10

I wonder if she just wanted the DBS back really quickly so she could get access to NotTom.

C0rdelia · 05/02/2021 14:19

Lough Dan

JaimeLeeCurtains · 05/02/2021 14:20

@stumbledin, apparently it was mostly filmed in Dublin and on the outskirts in Bray and Dún Laoghaire

stumbledin · 05/02/2021 14:23

Thanks Gracie and Cordelia. Smile

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feedingfrenzyatfive · 05/02/2021 16:38

It was worth watching for all of the MN comments.

persistentwoman · 05/02/2021 16:47

So pleased to see this thread still going. And I'm still laughing at some of the comments. Grin

Cherrypie32 · 05/02/2021 17:24

And after the whole debacle why would Daniel and his Dad even be in contact with the lunatic that nearly ruined their lives, let’s alone want to pay their respects to her son or brother.

BoreOfWhabylon · 05/02/2021 17:58

@butterpuffed

I don't want to get that four hours of my life back as it was hilarious.

Three scenes should be up for BAFTAs..

Tom/Daniel hacking away at a hedge in the background for absolutely no reason at all

The actor brandishing the chainsaw to save his mate

Jason trying to catch up with the boat by swimming behind it in his suit and shoes

And a special award for Jodie's coat as everyone will be wearing them

RPJ's ballet collapse when Jill wallopped him also deserves an honourable mention.
JaimeLeeCurtains · 05/02/2021 18:02

Is he meant to fancy her? Mark, I mean. Is he supposed to be slightly besotted with the coat-fringed and unhinged Jodie with the inexplicable accent? Which is why he was there with her at the end?

MrsMackesy · 05/02/2021 18:11

Thanks for this, OP. I enjoyed the first 2 episodes but missed the last two thanks DC . I didn't know it was available to watch online. I'm not going to read the thread for fear of spoilers!

diddl · 05/02/2021 18:55

"a mere throw from the shore where he went missing?"*

Perhaps it had sunk/they were looking in the wrong area?

JaimeLeeCurtains · 05/02/2021 19:03

I think it's pretty loopy to suggest that Jodie went to get some matches for the BBQ, left her four year old at the water's edge, and ages and he parents failed to notice the following things:

That Tom disappeared
That Ben disappeared
That Kate disappeared
That Jason disappeared
That Jason reappeared soaking bloody wet
And nobody twigged anything

JaimeLeeCurtains · 05/02/2021 19:04

and she and her parents

ffs autocorrect 😱

stumbledin · 05/02/2021 19:04

When I posted earlier today I hadn't realised how long this thread had become and thought I was posting a closing note to a mistake in opening this thread to begin with. But as others have said, comments have made it much more interesting.

Hammny Grandma was the mother in some series about a woman who had taken over her husbands legal practice and two of her daughters were part of it but conspiring against her. And a third daughter was flighty and arty. She looked and sounded exactly the same in that.

I think Daniel's dad was just a bad dad obsessed with his architecture - or trying to cope with wife's suicide.

The big clue was meant to be the seafood allegy I think that alerted Jodie before she got the text about no match.

The real killer, the career obsessed brother faked the other test by bribing someone, as he did to get the unlikely visit between Jodie and Daniel's real dad. (Were we supposed to think the Detective had a soft spot for Jodie? Turing up her flat and gazing at her with sad eyes?)

I thought both the baddies and the gardening crew were terrible character cliches that give tv a bad name.

ie violent east europeans carrying out dodgy deals and forgeries exploiting alienated youths and opening operating out of a squat that the local police musth have known about. The gardening business was some awful token compensation towards having another drama about a white middle class family. So suddenly out of nowhere a primarily BAME organisation is working in leafly suburbs and giving Jodie a sort of street cred along with her (arty?) outfits. But useful to let her easilly find people with dodgy backgrounds who would make up fake DBS (she was using a false name), passports etc..

But I thought the scene with the chain saw was brilliant! However big and burly you are you are not going to stick your arm out anywhere near a whirling chain!

But as i said above, it seemed more like it was put together by someone watching other tv crime shows than anyone who had any knowledge or done any research. A bit like that children's game where you start a whisper at one end of a chain of people and see how it comes out at the other end!

I think there have been some good dramas on C5. Like the first series of Blood. The second series was nothing like as good and apparently there wont be another.

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stumbledin · 05/02/2021 19:06

And its not just mumsnetters who thought this was a bit of a sieve www.entertainmentdaily.co.uk/tv/the-drowning-ending-five-plot-holes-as-viewers-mock-final-episode/

And tv times has tried to make sense of it www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/the-drowning-ending-explained/

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butterpuffed · 05/02/2021 19:06

RPJ's ballet collapse when Jill wallopped him also deserves an honourable mention

Forgot that one , there are so many Grin

FiveFootTwoEyesOfBlue · 05/02/2021 19:20

This series started out so well and ended up so ludicrous and far-fetched it was just plain annoying.
A man doesn't tell anyone that his nephew drowned while in his care because he thinks it will affect his career prospects? I mean where do you even begin with this? FFS
A barrister can get a fake DNA result sent to the police? Really?? FFS
The police let a witness to a crime have a private interview with the accused?? So utterly couldn't ever happen it was just shit.
And yes totally agree re ridiculous gardening company whose only real function is to give everyone an opportunity to wear groovy head scarves and dungarees.
And don't get me started on Jodie's home that looks looks like something from an interior design magazine, with huge rooms, lived in by a single woman who used to be a musician but is now a partner in said ridiculous gardening company. Because everyone knows about the huge salaries in gardening, don't they? Grrr.

And, oh no, my brother's coming for us, let's run away, where's the best place to escape to, I know, let's jump in a fucking rowing boat because that makes total sense.

And breathe.

diddl · 05/02/2021 20:20

It was a good idea-but just didn't work.

I mean the false DNA would have come out at some point-plus there would have been a birth certificate & photos of Daniel as a baby & there must have been frinds & relatives of Mark & Daniel.

Also the pics of Jodie & Tom- I thought that Daniel looked a different ethnicity to Tom!

I don't really know why M&D were there at the end.

GingerFigs · 05/02/2021 20:40

And why was RPJ's wife racked with guilt? Did he say they adopted Taniel and then his wife got pregnant? Where did the baby go? I need answers!! Otherwise I'll have to go back and watch that bit when I really don't want to 😂

the80sweregreat · 05/02/2021 20:41

The more this drama invaded my mind today the more I just ended up giggling at how bad it really was. Then I read this thread and laughed a lot more. I hope they make a few more silly dramas : we all need cheering up !

Hueandcry · 05/02/2021 20:47

I think Mark & his wife had Daniel, don't think adoption was mentioned??