THE HOLIDAY. CH 5 - March 1 - TUE WED THUR FRI. TV PACE NO SPOILERS

[Blondeshavemorefun]

New 4 part drama. Starts tue 1 March

Sunny Malta is the settling for this.new drama

A thriller staring Jill halfpenny as kate who discovers her husband Sean (Owen McDonnell) is having an affair with one of her friends who they are on Holiday with

Kate Sean and their two kids Lucy and Daniel are hoping to enjoy some sun

Kate discoverers a text on Sean’s phone

The drama follows kate as she tries to work out who the illicit lover is , as more secrets and lies are revealed

Is it

Rowan whose marriage is going through a rocky patch

Jenny who had a fling with Sean before he got with kate

Izzy who is in a new but complicated relationship

Tho amazed none of them knew Izzy was gay

After 20yrs + knowing her

@pussycatunpickingcrossesagain 🤣🤣

Finally watched the last episode.

Stand by what I said about Jake and Jenny. They are both unhinged imho.

Still don't know how old Lucy was supposed to be. Must be 16 as both parents seemed OK about her partaking in sexual activities with this Alex boy that Jake then killed 😯

Also, I don't know why the pp was saying about how they would hate to have a friend like Kate. Imho, she was the only adult being honest out of all 6 of them. Alastair and Russ were trying as well. But both their wives were keeping things from them. Rowan's secret about being pregnant was the weakest. I mean wtaf?

To respond to the Irishness thing , quite a lot of the cast are Irish (the two sons, for example - the young one was a magician on BGT!) so am wondering if it was a co production?

Also Adrian McCardle who plays Swedish one's DH...

He is Steve Coogan's cousin! You can even see it!!

Oh! And the daughter! Bloody hell, they all are!!

OK, on further investigation, the only ones who aren't are Jill Halfpenny and the one who plays Izzy. And the Swedish one.

@Piggywaspushed

To respond to the Irishness thing , quite a lot of the cast are Irish (the two sons, for example - the young one was a magician on BGT!) so am wondering if it was a co production?

Thought I recognised the Daniel actor from somewhere 😉

It was absolutely rubbish. They looked absolutely freezing most of the time too!

@vjg13

It was absolutely rubbish. They looked absolutely freezing most of the time too!

Didn't they?!! It was obviously filmed out of season with the wind blowing and quite chilly. I thought it was utter rubbish too. None of them seemed to even like each other, let alone be best friends since school or uni or whatever. It was 'The Holiday' from hell long before one of them got pushed off a cliff.

Most books of this genre is the same these days , a red herring or four and a twist or two at the end!
I watched something on Netflix ( long weekend or something like that ) set in Croatia, it was a film , but it had a similar ish plot.
I didn't realize Croatia was so nice though !!

I still can't get over the complete lack of communication between ALL the characters in the story. I mean, had they all forgotten how to actually talk to each other about things rather than trying to second guess and read body language signals all the time ffs?!?

I'm really confused. Have watched episodes 3 and 4, but episode 5 doesn't seen to exist on Sky or my5?

@SpanishFly

I'm really confused. Have watched episodes 3 and 4, but episode 5 doesn't seen to exist on Sky or my5?

I'm confused about the episodes too.

The last one I saw ended with Kate deleting Lucy's voucemail to Jake and then smashing her phone and the mirror in the bathroom!

@meredusoleil same here! I thought it was too abrupt to be the ending, and everyone on here is talking about episode 5 🤔

There’s only four

@Blondeshavemorefun

There’s only four

Thank you. It seemed an odd ending to me, then. Very sudden/abrupt.

Yes me too. I agree. It wasn't clear if by ripping her ID badge off her neck that she was going to quit her job as a copper or simply not report that her daughter was involved in the hit and run/murder?!?

My take on the ending is that Kate decided to delete evidence of a crime, hence pulling off her police ID and throwing the phone at the mirror - she’d gone against all her training / instincts / conscience as a police officer to protect her daughter.

@TheAbbotOfUnreason

My take on the ending is that Kate decided to delete evidence of a crime, hence pulling off her police ID and throwing the phone at the mirror - she’d gone against all her training / instincts / conscience as a police officer to protect her daughter.

Yes that's what I thought too.

She was all set to drop Jake in it. But then it all changed when Lucy admitted she was actually there too 😐

@TheAbbotOfUnreason

My take on the ending is that Kate decided to delete evidence of a crime, hence pulling off her police ID and throwing the phone at the mirror - she’d gone against all her training / instincts / conscience as a police officer to protect her daughter.

This

It was a really weird programme
None of them were likeable
And I don't think anyone acted very naturally. None of it seemed very natural to me

The Swedish one reminded me so much of Linda Barker

On the subject of Swedish, someone said upthread she wouldn't call her son Jake because 'Yake' but her name was 'Yenny' . Presumably she isn't Swedish in the book??

Is the book like the programme?
Is it better?