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

[stumbledin]

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/

She's not at all likeable , very strange, don't think I'd want her as a mother ! I guess there'll be an explanation as to why she's so vile to her whole family.

Finding Alice has lots of holes but this one has craters !

That said, I think that's why I'm loving it, it's keeping me entertained !!

@Wingedharpy
Is the 14 year old Simon Barlow's brother?

No (but he could easily be?!)

I was a bit surprised when I spotted the other strong cobbles link apart from JH. And it's not the fact that, like Corrie, the writing at the moment is terrible and full of massive plot holes... actually though, there could be a massive clue there...

I wonder how many parents of missing children go down the route of declaring them dead? A tiny minority I would think. Jodies ex does seem very relaxed about the whole thing.
I keep comparing this to The Missing where the long term effects of having a child missing were very well done. The final scene of the dad in Russia looking for his son were chilling. And I say that as someone who finds James Nesbitt generally unwatchable.

I'm wondering about intestacy rules now. Say you had 2 children, one of whom went missing as a young child and was never found. Decades later you die without a will so your estate should go to your children. Technically the missing child is still alive so at that point their share goes where? I guess it would then be up to the other child to apply to have their sibling declared dead?

Or you do leave a will, expressly leaving half the estate to your missing child. I'm guessing then it would have to be held in trust by the executors (for how long?) or the executors would have to apply to declare the child dead and the estate then distributed accordingly.

For her ex husband to be so relaxed about it all means that he either knows his son is still alive and well or he really has just moved on and just wants closure.
It's clear we're not getting the whole story behind the drowning on that day or it could be that they had to take the boy away from the mother and this was a 'set up 'of some kind? Would be so cruel to do it this way though!
I just hope her employee will be ok!

Are there any actual drowning scenes so far? I would like to watch this from the drama perspective but I can't watch even a hint of drowning as it is too triggering.

@Raratonga

Just pictures of the lake and the toy boat so far. I'm the same but don't think there will be any drowning scenes as I don't believe he did drown...no idea what really happened to him though!

Just watched it on catch up.

She only needed Daniel's blood and her own DNA sample, didn't she?

It's so bad it's amazing.

I've not watched this yet, recorded it. But I can't help feeling I've watched something very very similar not so long back.... anyone else? It's almost like deja vue, I feel I've seen a programme about a mother convinced someone is her dead son.

@EggysMom

"I'll make you something [to east] .... I'll put a wash on ..." in a stranger's house? Even the kid must think this is weird.

Did she do the washing?! Still figuring out this morning if I saw her hang it up! How did she know how to work the machine, I can barely work my one! Does she actually know anything about music thought she was a gardener? So many unanswered questions...yeah and the whole "What you doing in my house?!" Here have a glass of wine anyway and let's get it on..I love it though best thing I have seen in ages!

@Mairyhinge

I've not watched this yet, recorded it. But I can't help feeling I've watched something very very similar not so long back.... anyone else? It's almost like deja vue, I feel I've seen a programme about a mother convinced someone is her dead son.

There was one a few years ago about a missing toddler who the mother spotted as a teenager years later. Nicola walker was the abducter iirc.

Does she actually know anything about music thought she was a gardener?

She and her ex were successful musicians I think.

I'm really enjoying this. I like how Jill plays the character really straight, not as crazy tall pixie dream woman like Keeley Hawes in Finding Alice.

"There was one a few years ago about a missing toddler who the mother spotted as a teenager years later. Nicola walker was the abducter iirc."

Torn.

Also with Holly Aird.

"Two familys' lives are turned upside down when a mother recognises her daughter, Alice, who was kidnapped from a beach over 10 years earlier, and who was generally assumed to have drowned."

Oh Lordy-just found it on youtube-that's my afternoon sorted!

Ah yes Torn!

@Rarotonga2

Are there any actual drowning scenes so far? I would like to watch this from the drama perspective but I can't watch even a hint of drowning as it is too triggering.

They mention that her Dads cause of death maybe drowning but covered up for some reason.

I hope it ends well but i doubt it will, considering how silly it's been so far.

My theory, based on the fact that there's obviously something that would appear in a real DBS check, and Jodie's father blaming her, is that the family organised the boy's disappearance to keep him safe from her. And her best friend now ex's partner was also in on it.

I fear that might be too sensible an explanation, though.

Watched the first episode of torn it's quite similar in some aspects that she followed the child on the bus. Its more believeable though the way people are acting. No fake DBS checks. Yet anyway?

Behind as usual

Assuming now he isn’t her son. He just wants to be loved as mum is dead

But

Why havnt the police asked for dna and spoken to the dad

Some best friend 🙄 having an affair with her friends hubby

Toothbrush will come back zero

Tho what did happen to her son. Weird no body was found

How long was he missing

i am still going with they conceived son via IFV and another couple used their fertilised eggs. So its a different child.

I'd like it all to be in her head. I am not sure how a child can be drowned in a pond and not be found. This isn't loch ness? surely they would have to get the body, else imagine if it popped up one day. All odd!

Blondes, maybe the police have had this from her for years and aren’t taking it seriously anymore? Or like someone else said maybe it’s all in her head
Anyway I’m looking forward to watching it tonight ( then the bay on itv+1!)

@bumblenbean

What I don’t understand is why the ex and his new wife are still involved in all the family drama? Why were they all together at the funeral, having lunch etc? Surely the last thing she’d want is her ex and the woman he cheated on her with around ...

I think the lunch was because they were marking Tom’s birthday, so as his dad he had a right to be there? And her family and the ex had obviously all been planning the papers to get him declared legally dead.

@Graciebobcat

Does she actually know anything about music thought she was a gardener?

She and her ex were successful musicians I think.

I'm really enjoying this. I like how Jill plays the character really straight, not as crazy tall pixie dream woman like Keeley Hawes in Finding Alice.

Thank you for clearing that up Graciebobcat. I watched the first episode of Finding Alice but couldn't get by the whole stairs with no bannister issue after the first five mins..