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

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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/

Just watched the last episode. Definitely 4 hours of my life I won't get back...

It just got worse and worse! I'm actually quite embarassed for the actors in it, most of them weren't good especially the mother in the cabin at the end, just dire.

I'm loving these comments. I think we should all write series 2.

It could start with Jodie and Mark having a relationship then a baby together ...

@diddl - Cody Molko, who played Daniel, has a Vietnamese mother. In a show which literally revolved around who his parents were, it seemed a bit silly

TomDan was the most ridiculously drippy teen ever. They'd have been better off setting it 4 years later. An 8 year old may have gone along with the lunatic behaviour of Jodie and Jason but by 14 they'd tend be a bit wtf about stuff. Did his facial expression change at any point during his various kidnaps?

@burnoutbabe. think it’s only you and me who enjoyed

Yes plot silly

Mark would have immediate found birth certificate and asked for another dna test

If anyone told me toddler blondes wasn’t mine and someone’s else’s I would have flipped

I did enjoy it, while thinking it was extremely daft.

[quote Clymene]@diddl - Cody Molko, who played Daniel, has a Vietnamese mother. In a show which literally revolved around who his parents were, it seemed a bit silly [/quote]
Ah, that explains it then!

I found this photo of Cody Molko's parents online. Mr Molko from Placebo and Helena Berg, Vietnamese photographer.

I was thinking though-does a birth certificate prove who you are?

This thread is brilliant.
Unlike the show which I just binged whilst ironing.
Well, it wasn't a wasted four hours. The ironing basket is empty.
It's like one of the those free books you down load on your kindle made into a series.
I've never seen so much utter crap. And I've watched a lot of crap over the years.
Made Midsummer Murders look like Broadchurch.
Thanks for the laughs on here though

[quote Clymene]@diddl - Cody Molko, who played Daniel, has a Vietnamese mother. In a show which literally revolved around who his parents were, it seemed a bit silly [/quote]
He didn't look like anyone!!! Not even the father he was living with!!
He resembled Tom in the photo but Tom didn't look like his parents either. It was so implausible.
Why was their animosity between Jodie and her father? It was never really explained either. So many questions.

@GetOffYourHighHorse

TomDan was the most ridiculously drippy teen ever. They'd have been better off setting it 4 years later. An 8 year old may have gone along with the lunatic behaviour of Jodie and Jason but by 14 they'd tend be a bit wtf about stuff. Did his facial expression change at any point during his various kidnaps?

He seemed to accept everything didn't he? His whole life turned upside down, a weirdo lady stalking him and visiting his house. The fact that Jodie was his mum, then not his mum...then expected to grieve with his abductor and for a child he never met! It was hilarious.

That was a ridiculously poor series. I was sorry to see Rupert PJ reduced to such a poor role.

There was maybe a hint that Jodie's dad blamed her for Tom's death, but really, for what? Going to get some more matches when there were five other adults around?

Why wouldn't he blame himself - he was there? Or Ben or Kate or Jason who fucked off to the woods? Where was Mrs WoodenActingMum in all this?

And why did no-one notice Jason was absolutely drenched when someone finally noticed Tom was missing?

Totally absurd

i have one more episode to watch, thank god - it is like some awful afternoon tv film

I'm getting more sense out of binge-watching Murder She Wrote on 5 USA

@MissEliza

That was a ridiculously poor series. I was sorry to see Rupert PJ reduced to such a poor role.

Yes.

After Spooks & Whitechapel...

I wonder how it was pitched??

@diddl I do recall reading interviews with him where he said work had dried up a bit. He's not the greatest actor but he has a certain charisma whereas Jill Halfpenny is so ordinary.

I think RPJ is suffering from what a lot of actresses suffer from.

When young you thought you were hired for your acting abilities, then you realise later on it was for your looks. Because once ageing sets in somehow parts just dont seem as plentiful.

Very true.

Theres 4 hours of my life I wont get back!! Binge watched it whilst eating pizza and drinking cider....20000 calories up the swanee!

What happened to Daniel's sibling ? His real mother committed suicide , she had another child ? Where were they ?

Didn't hear that she had another child? Don't remember that.

There was no other sibling

They should have chucked in a random, implausible but very hot sex scene. Wouldn’t have made much difference to the story line but could have made watching the thing more worthwhile.