The Tourist - new 6 parter BBC1 1st Jan 9pm **TV pace - no spoilers please. Title edited by MNHQ**

[Rollergirl11]

Has Jamie Dornan as a man who finds himself in Australia with amnesia trying to piece together who is trying to kill him. Has been likened to the film Memento with Guy Pearce. Looks promising.

I laughed when he put the crook lock on the car in the deserted street and Also talked about missing rush hour 😀

@powershowerforanhour

Nobody here says stick we say manual. And if you remember how to use a smartphone you'd hop in and drive a manual car like you'd flick the kettle on for a cup of tea.

I think you would though if you were in a country and speaking to someone from that country that does say stick.

The money thing is daft, and I found the not being able to remember how to drive while he can do all other things a bit daft.

Overall, I'm liking it.

I was waiting for Helen to find out that it was actually Ethan’s fault that she was caught in a shoot out, as he sent Beardy Caricature Man to her!

The ending was a bit of a shocker though - with LuciVictoria knowing Beardy Caricature Man!

It had a few breaking bad vibes for me yesterday. The Mexican twins scenes and the old man watching TV.
I’m enjoying it

They were Mexican? Thought they were Greek!!!

I don't think this show is anywhere near as clever as it likes to think it is.

Definitely Greek!

Greek - I speak a bit and recognised several words, as well as the accent.

I like it.
It's quirky.
But you do have to suspend disbelief - how could big American guy be up, walking and able to plot revenge after being stabbed in the back, whacked on the head and falling down the well backwards
What's Jamie doing for money ?
That poor deaf man.
I wasn't surprised Luci appears to be a "bad un".

Oh good, I'm not gone mad (yet).

I've just looked up the cast list. For those of you who watched Heartbreak High back in thr 90s, the actor playing Kosta played Nick in that. I didn't pick up the name of the other (presumed) brother (also couldn't see him clearly) so can't check who he is.

Nick the one with long hair? He had ishoos?

I'm can't stop thinking about how bad that T-shirt Elliott is wearing would smell and that he hasn't had a shower for days. No shower, no change of underwear?

I am enjoying it, despite ridiculous things like injured man crawling out of a deep well. It reminds me of Fargo.

Still enjoying

Why is billy and his boss after Elliot

Agree being stabbed with scissors plus falling backwards out of a well plus climbing out unaided a bit unrealistic

Fiance is def a prick and she will reliese that

@Bitbloweyoutthere

Nick the one with long hair? He had ishoos?

No. Well he has ishoos (didn't they all). He was in the first few series, had a younger sister, a mother who cooked well and expanded into a business and then died, got replaced by a housekeeper who the father then went to Greece with the run a hotel (or something).

He was unpleasant and very jealous with his girlfriend but I think we were supposed to view him as a heart throb.

Sorry I meant the evil twins in breaking bad were Mexican. That scene with American and his cowboys boots just reminded me of those two twins. Apologies for confusion

@dayswithaY

I'm can't stop thinking about how bad that T-shirt Elliott is wearing would smell and that he hasn't had a shower for days. No shower, no change of underwear?

I am enjoying it, despite ridiculous things like injured man crawling out of a deep well. It reminds me of Fargo.

Jamie Dornan is so sexy he smells of perfumed air at all times. True fact.

Oh God I'm really not enjoying this now, it's almost embarrassingly bad. It's not a patch on Coen Brothers, there's nothing clever about it. It's got too many holes and the scripting and acting is awful in places. DH wanted to turn it off but I said we'd stick with it just to find out what happens. But I'm disappointed, I had high hopes (yes, based solely on JD!!) and they've been completely dashed!

Lavenderaskew I've gone down a heartbreak high rabbit hole. I was thinking of Rivers. Didn't he have an affair with a teacher? I know hh was meant to be all edgy. I remember watching it, but can't remember where I watched it.

@Bitbloweyoutthere

Lavenderaskew I've gone down a heartbreak high rabbit hole. I was thinking of Rivers. Didn't he have an affair with a teacher? I know hh was meant to be all edgy. I remember watching it, but can't remember where I watched it.

Yes with a teacher who looked like Kylie Minougue from memory.

It's now on netflix. I watch a few episide and all of them shout their lines. Which was quite annoying, I don't recall that from way back in the 90s.

@LifeInAHamsterWheel

Oh God I'm really not enjoying this now, it's almost embarrassingly bad. It's not a patch on Coen Brothers, there's nothing clever about it. It's got too many holes and the scripting and acting is awful in places. DH wanted to turn it off but I said we'd stick with it just to find out what happens. But I'm disappointed, I had high hopes (yes, based solely on JD!!) and they've been completely dashed!

I kind of feel the same. It sounded great in theory but it's let down by mediocre acting and script writing, as well as plot holes wider than the Outback.

Since I'm half way there I'll continue watching, which is probably a 'sunk cost fallacy' but however. "Fargo" it is not!

I had such high hopes for this as the premise sounded great but the acting is worse than Sons & Daughters. Even Jamie’s leading role isn’t saving this. Such a shame as he was great in The Fall. Perhaps it’s better if you’ve also drank a flask full of LSD? Hope it isn’t being lined up for second season.

oh i like Helen, and want her to ditch her fiance
i was not surprised jd was annoyed at luci, why on earth would she keep it a secret that she didnt know him
why did they run from the police
bit slow but i am invested in it now

@summertimerolls yes first scene, it's almost a quote from Duel, (I had to Google to remember the name, so creepy). The whole first ep
has that menacing suspense. It's really good.

oh his father died
www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jan/15/jamie-dornan-was-stuck-in-australian-quarantine-when-dad-died-of-covid

@mummagirl

Jamie's father delivered my twins. He was every bit as gorgeous and suave as his son. Now both twins have beards in their twenties too.

Jamie’s father delivered me! And he popped in to say hi when I was delivering my son. He was very good friends with my mum, they worked together. (I wonder if my mum was with you when your twins were born??) If my daft mother had been a bit smarter I’d be Mrs Dornan now.

I’m on episode 2. Not sure if I’m enjoying it. Surely if someone calls you and says they’re buried in a barrel underground near a waterfall you call the police?