INSIDE MAN. BBC1 9pm. Mon 26 and tue 27 sept TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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new drama starting David tennant

4 parts

1&2 on mon and tue 26/27 sept

3&4 following week mon and tue on 3/4 October

as usual bloody iPlayer will have them all 🙄 so rem this is tv paced 😛😁

On the face of it, it looks like an unlikely story following a prisoner on death row in the United States, a vicar in a quiet English town, and a maths teacher trapped in a cellar.

What’s their connection, you may ask?

According to the synopsis, the story follows a US prisoner on death row (Tucci), who is seeking atonement as he faces execution. It continues: “On a train in England, a journalist (West) is looking for a story. In a quiet little village, a vicar (Tennant) is picking up his son’s maths tutor (Dolly Wells) from the station.

“All four are about to be entangled in a dilemma that could lead one of them to murder.”

And as the synopsis also states: “Everyone’s a murderer – you just need a good reason and a bad day.”

Like we said, this series has a star-studded cast. Tennant plays Harry Watling, Tucci plays Jefferson Grieff, West plays Beth Davenport while Dolly Wells (Pursuit Of Love) plays Janice Fife.

The cast also includes Lyndsey Marshal (Dracula), Atkins Estimond (Hightown), Mark Quarterly (Cursed), Tilly Vosburgh (Maigret), Louis Oliver (Midnight Mass), Kate Dickie (The Witch) and Dylan Baker (Hunters).

Was Janice married to Grieff then?
( I feel I need to watch it again )

That is Brilliant!

She set him up - but why did he go along with it?

Maybeeeeee . . . . . . . or maybe not . . . . . . . .

taps side of nose

That was the most enjoyable scene in the whole series for me.

I may have to watch this again ~ the whole thing was so convoluted , I think I may have missed some important bits 😅. Thoroughly enjoyed it !

I've only watched the first two episodes. Ignoring the insanity of locking the maths tutor in the basement and the death row inmate solving puzzles from prison the only thing I've taken from it so far is that the church is happy to cover up CSA. Whilst I'm sure that wasn't Moffatt's intention, I won't be watching the last two episodes.

Pretty sure faking your own murder and framing your husband for it is a criminal offence though. She’d be quite stupid to admit to (or imply) that in front of the prison cctv. So you’re probably spot on.

Where did he get her schedule from though? How did he know she works on Sundays and the address?

And why would he assume that she never left? Isn’t it just as likely that she’d left, walked to a bus stop and fallen in a canal, or under a bus, or got another tutoring job elsewhere in the evening, or went on a date, or any number of other things. No one was phoning around local hospitals to see if she’d been brought in.

I still maintain it was a black comedy !
Not really to be taken that seriously ( Beth taunting the vicars wife with that knife was terrible)
The religious context , the dodgy heater most people would have sent to the tip ( why keep it ? ) just everything was just playing with us.

Yeah I wondered that about her leaving. Why should there be any 'evidence' that she had left the vicarage on any normal Sunday?

I guess Grieff just saw it as a logical place to start.

Agreed, 80s. It won't bear too much analysis as drama but it's rare for me to lol when a vicar's wife falls under a bus. Could have been shorter and more crisply edited.

Spoilers

Boo in Fleabag died in a road traffic accident
Alex in ' am I being unreasonable' ? Died on a train
Vicars wife hit by a lorry in this
Beware the roads in dramas

Beware the roads in dramas

And never, EVER, walk on the outside of the pavement if you're trotting off to the shops with Jessica Fletcher . . .

(And if you survive the shopping expedition, be careful you don't gulp your gin coffee the wrong way or choke on a raspberry doughnut.)

Well I’ve just finished watching it all and all I can say is wtf?
It started off quite amusing but by the end- not sure what to make if any of it.

Oh I really enjoyed that eventually, I was annoyed initially with the vicar and the wife but the ending was great

@Emotionalsupportviper

just flying in to say I’m just home from work so definitely didn’t choke on my gin and raspberry donut last night 🤣

was mightily peeved to find that no one at work had watched any of it and therefore didn’t understand any of my rantings or explanations of last night’s episode.

they must have thought I’d lost the plot 🤣

Mmm I'm not sure what to think of it

Did anyone else wonder how a vicar got through several days without a single parishioner or church warden calling him or dropping in or asking for help or needing info on church flowers/next week's baptism/wedding/funeral/pet blessing ceremony etc etc. It was almost as though he had no job just a dog collar and a massive mansion.

Damn. I should have kept watching. What happened?

Spent today feeling remarkably underwhelmed. It was so thin as drama - a touch - well, the BBC’s usual sledgehammer blow - of GCSE single-issue moralising. That’s it.

Who’s good? Who’s bad? Who cares? Characters except Janice squeaky and dull.

Only complexity was the plot reversals. Needs more meat on plot bones - a whisper of moral ambiguity in someone, anyone, might help.

I don’t think the BBC does subtle. Unless it’s Gary Lineker’s eyeshadow.

BBC should call the sequel BLEEDING OBVIOUS.

Can anyone help which programme or film has featured the theme tune in apart from this one?
I'm sure I've heard it in something else

@purpleme12 I think it's the Blind Boys of Alabama or whatever they're called

Dexter and Gotham @purpleme12

So Janice is grieffs wife and she buried the head of her sister taking her identity. So there's still a whole whodunit. No there's not I bet on the dad. Because it's not grieff who killed his wife. Janice always gets it wrong. Will there be a reunion between them two. He will remain in prison until two or three more season. Really they did not take advantage of the whole prison situation. The vicar presumably was showing the moral aspect of grief situation, but it was not well written and totally unbelievable from a safeguarding point of view. Maybe it's an old script that was difficult to update. I haven't seen 3 and 4 yet. But they really could have upped the game to have a beautiful alternate Sherlock here. Waiting for episode 2 season 1 to see if it's better you never know. Beth is not working for me I had lots of expectations for this young actress.

janice isnt grieffs wife