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[Blondeshavemorefun]

Ok new drama for next week starting Monday 7th

With martin compson from Lod, the nest, traces and Virgil

As newly weds, fi and bram brought and furnished their dream home

As time goes by the have 2 kids but end up getting a divorce

Fi has them weekdays and bram weekends

Fi arrives home from work to find a couple moving into her home, tho she had no idea it was for sale let alone sold

Tho not sure how a house cAn be sold if her name is on the mortgage

Twists and turns and lots of flashbacks as story is told in present and last

[quote QueenFool]@TheAbbotofUnreason
Fi's friend played Jamie Dornan's wife in The Fall. [/quote]
Ah, she sounded just like Orla in the murky nastiness of the studio flat.

@Spidey66

Did I miss something? How did he get a car if he's had to stop driving due to a ban?

I'm another who read it after years back but can't remember all the details.

He missed the train so went back to the house and took the car.

@Spidey66

Did I miss something? How did he get a car if he's had to stop driving due to a ban?

I'm another who read it after years back but can't remember all the details.

He missed the train

Went back to their house And took keys ffom hall table

@TheAbbotofUnreason

She is just like Orla, just 20yrs later. Love Derry Girls.

I think it was pretty good. I don't think there was enough of the confusion and panic at finding people moving into her house and not knowing where her children are as there should have been.
I think in the book Lucy Vaughan is quite calm with Fi because Fi is freaking out and I think she thinks she's dealing with a mad woman and is trying to keep the peace until her husband arrives to back her up.

I loved the book but am withholding judgment on the TV series atm. Agree that Fi doesn't ring true, she's too clipped/stuffy/unlikeable, I had real empathy when I read the book but she's not ringing true. God the panic I would feel if I couldn't locate my children, I'd be running to the school and not giving the house situation a second thought.

[quote QueenFool]@TheAbbotofUnreason

She is just like Orla, just 20yrs later. Love Derry Girls.[/quote]
Me too - just binge watched it (again) with DS and picked up on things I missed first time round.

I’ve not read the book. I quite enjoyed the first episode. He’s fucked up quite a bit so far- shagged the friend in a wendy house, got her pregnant, rejected his boss’s offer of a shag, drunk driven when he’s lost his license and possibly killed someone due to a road rage incident. Oh and possibly sold his family home from under his wife’s nose! Quite gripped.

I am enjoying it so far..one of the sons was the nephew in Afterlife..

One thing I didn’t get was about the car. She offered him the car a couple of times during the episode. He said he’d take the train so does that mean she doesn’t know he is banned?

Yes, I think he’d been keeping it a secret.

Bram definitely isn't someone you'd want to get mixed up with, more layers than an onion !
Enjoying this though, only just found out it's on every night this week, rather than weekly.

@Papergirl1968

Thanks Candlecassie. That outfit to go to the park! The bottom half is like an underslip and she clearly had no bra on!

Exactly! I said to dh, who goes to the park with their nips out, seriously!!!

The past and present are muddly as usual. In the TV listings for tonight ~ not a spoiler ~ it says 'In the past, Bram tries to cover up his involvement in the car accident' . I thought this was in the present !!

@butterpuffed

The past and present are muddly as usual. In the TV listings for tonight ~ not a spoiler ~ it says 'In the past, Bram tries to cover up his involvement in the car accident' . I thought this was in the present !!

Surely the present is her arriving to find her house has been sold and kids are not with him. There are different periods of "past".

I think the car accident was recent past (they were still living in the house, not sure if it was pre or post the Wendy House incident). House Beautiful reports that the action of Fi arriving home to find the new owners in the house and subsequent events takes place over 12 hours.

www.housebeautiful.com/uk/lifestyle/a39342255/itv-our-house/

It doesn't take much to confuse me !

I thought she caught him with Merle ten years previously. All this back and forth in time has me mixed up.

Merle was about 6mths ago. According to bump

Accident maybe a month or two ago

He was separated. Living in bedsit as said to blonde lady he had split and paying rent and mortgage

Wife didn’t know he couldn’t drive hence needed an intern to drive him

License back in a few months

I got the impression Fi doesn't know he is banned from driving because she said to take the car. He told his lady boss it would be only for a few months he would be banned for and they let him carry on working.
He obviously won't report the accident , but the other car involved did stop and they might have it recorded on camera or have his number plate.
They didn't help the other driver either, so maybe dodgy too? :(

I admired her for sitting on the grass and eating an ice cream in the silk slip and dry clean top.

I think she is an unreliable narrator. Hiding the anti-ds in her bag...then there was a moment at her 'conference' (the night she caught him shagging in the shed) when she kind of looked troubled in the mirror - did something happen we didn't see? Also why was the car that made him overtake deliberately going so slowly and then it sped off after the accident. Did it target him specifically? Why did they paint that house dark blue? Note to set designers- keep interiors bright so we can see what's going on! Thankfully no squinting at text messages this time

Also, like in The Holiday, characters are not properly introduced- her random friends seem kind of tagged on (although if if Tuppence married Jill Halfpenny she'd be Tuppence Ha'penny).

And what does Boss Lady see in a junior employee who is not yet divorced and has lost his license? She was all 'it's a problem, it's a condition of your employment' when she found out he couldn't drive, but 5 mins later she's all 'I'm drunk and I've got a room'. Don't think that's in the job description.

The other driver was targeting him I think ,
It seemed staged
Maybe the OW's husband? Adrian ?
She told him the baby isn't his, but maybe it is?
How can Fi sit close to the OW too ?
It is all very odd

The book is currently 99p on Amazon and IBooks!

I also thought Martin Compton was the best thing in it. Utterly different to LOD.

@Holothane

Oh please not another murder in it. I’d watch this but it always end with a murder or crappy ending like teachers.

Thanks for that I haven't started watching it yet

She does come across as stiff and stilted and detached, but I admire her poise and aloofness in the face of ridiculous, reckless irresponsible behaviour from her husband. I can't figure out why she is so cold with the children in front of him though. Surely she would say goodbye to them, not just walk away without a word?

Another series though where the cast all seem to have regular, normal jobs - Bram seems relatively junior in his role, yet they live in expensive 6 bedroom palaces. Meanwhile in the real world they'd be lucky to live in a 3 bed semi and would be saving for a decent bathroom to replace some 90s horror that needs replacing.