RED ROSE. BBC 3 mon and Tue 10pm - TV PACE ONLY. NO SPOILERS

[Blondeshavemorefun]

new thriller /spooky drama

Red Rose is set in Bolton during the long, hot summer after GCSEs and follows a group of childhood friends.

Wren (Amelia Clarkson) and Rochelle (Isis Hainsworth) are on the cusp of a summer of fun with their tight-knit gang – including Wren’s crush Noah (Harry Redding) – after finishing their GCSEs.

But when Rochelle downloads a mysterious phone app called Red Rose, it kickstarts a terrifying campaign of dangerous demands, which exposes the friends to a seemingly supernatural force. Who or what is Red Rose?

"Wren and her friends are excited for no school and no rules. It’s set to be a summer with everything ahead of them," says Amelia Clarkson, 24, who’s starred in Poldark and The Last Kingdom.

"But Wren’s romantic interest in Noah causes Rochelle to feel jealous, and the collapse of their friendship is awful timing considering what Rochelle goes through with Red Rose,’ she adds.

‘Rochelle becomes isolated, and the phone itself becomes this kind of phantom amongst the group, which is truly terrifying."

looks good - 8 in all

assume on for 4w - 2 episodes a week

Did they. I missed that. God I’m crap

The Asian boy who was googling Red Rose found her story online.

i really need to learn the names beyond Noah, Wren and Rochelle 😂😂

Last night was good

so the ladies in the hotel, one was the teenagers mum

There were two Mums present at the seance, Wren's Mum with the red hair and Rochelle's Mum who was the pregnant one (with the twins) as it gave the date as 2013😀

Ah thanks @Winniewonka and obv Rochelle’s mum killed herself

I said before could it be linked to the game

If that young coder wrote the app though, it couldn't be linked directly. Maybe a precursor to the app..? 🤔 The ouija board could have played a part... maybe the woman who said "we need to close it properly!" started something to play tricks on the rest. Not sure how that could link to Coding Boy (Jacob?)

Yes @SoupDragon that’s what I thought as they didn’t shut it down properly

I've just remembered... the tunnels and that train made me feel sick at what could have happened! Horrible.

Yes it’s not a nice ghost /thing in phone

could have died

which again makes me think Rochelle’s mum was made to kill herself

plus other girl in e1

Totally missed that was Rochelle’s mum too @Winniewonka thank you that makes sense! I can’t stop watching although I find it alternately daft & slightly terrifying.

I'm up to date on a series for once! So I'm a bit confused as to how Jacob has come into the story. Is it just because coder-girl sat at his desk after he died? That's a bit tenuous so there must be something else that I missed?

You needed to have twigged that the pregnant woman was called Gloria to realise she was Rochelle’s mum. They'd not really mentioned her name much so it wasn't obvious.

with Jacob, I think the Asian Coder Girl (who I thought they referred to as Gandalf 😂) recognised similarities between his behaviour before his death and Rochelle's. They thought he was another victim but I think that when they looked at the coding of the app on Wren's phones there were "signatures" that said he was the coder. When they found the notebook in his room it was the "blueprints" for the app.

What would we do without you @SoupDragon

Some of the details are really brief. It's just luck if I've managed to be focussing at the right points!

I may have to watch Mondays and Tuesdays tomorrow as in hospital tue

but won’t say what happened. I prob won’t understand it anyway when @SoupDragon

I'll take notes 😂

Another good episode with some twists and small bits of new information.

I'm really enjoying this.

Yes agree @SoupDragon not sure how this is going to end

think 3 left

Who was the bald man at the end? The one watching CCTV on screens. He had a mug with "dad" on it.

Assume that was simon

as he said he was playing what simon says but watching

so he may be behind this

so now the twins are alone ?

no mum dad or big sister 🥲🥲

Simon had jumped from the roof by that point though.

it's whoever is giving the instructions

Simon was dad?

im rubbish with names

so dad mum daughter all committed suicide

No... Simon was Wren's mum's newish boyfriend. Dad of Twins was Vinny.

Neither of whom were bald anyway.

<checks time before posting> looks like it isn't necessarily someone known to the kids anyway.

very difficult not to binge watch this!!

who on earth was Big Beardy Man dancing with Anthony (amongst other things!) and why was he celebrating GCSE results with a bunch of teenagers?