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).

Most welcome. I watch a lot of trashy tv due to having a baby over my shoulder at work

@Blondeshavemorefun I love this time of year for new dramas on the tele.

Me too. Lots of them. Just tagged you in another

It's a bit odd like that other series on BBC, set in Australia, shown last year with Jamie Dornan - The Tourist.
But The Tourist was better.

Yes, I liked 'the tourist '
That was very twisty too

Not convinced by the DT v DW over the flash drive. Surely he would have just let her leave then destroyed the flash drive. If she went to the police there would be no evidence. All their computers would be clean as they didn’t download the stuff in the first place.

DW as a vulnerable but resourceful woman locked in a room cough Dracula cough Steven Moffat

I don't think the vicar does have a secret reason to want to protect the verger: He knows Edgar is a suicide risk and very vulnerable and his immediate response is to protect him and minimise what he's done, which is psychologically realistic, even if his more considered response might have been to go to the cops. Of course he hasn't seen any of the child sex abuse images, which she has, so that's probably influencing his response as well.

I did think that it was clever the way they set us up to assume that the mother was just a puritan, when in fact she had very real reasons for her apparent overreaction.

Dark humour? Which bit is that then? When the prisoner is revealed to have murdered fifteen women and eaten his mother's feet? That's not dark humour but thinly disguised misogyny from the writer and the producers.
Would it still be dark humour if he'd murdered fifteen children? No one in their right mind would find that darkly humourous, but because it's women that's comedy.

Found it a bit hard to know what was happening in Death Row sequences

Found the vicars reactions bizarre to say the least. Didn't find any of it plausible.

And the amazing house on a vicars income lol

Ben is played by Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue’s son... no nepotism there then!

I thought it was gay porn and that was going to be why she said it was sinful.

Who zooms in on a text?
How do you even zoom in on a text? You can’t do it on an iPhone. You do it through accessibility shortcuts.
Yes I am going to pick holes. I bloody well am.

That was the most ridiculously contrived rubbish ending to that little mystery.

The PA never has a conversation with the wife about the payments? Never texts back ‘You want me to pay your husband?’ Gah!!!!

If the Tennant bit is supposed to be happening in the current Church of England which - whilst still scandalously awful on safeguarding - is much, much more on the alert to safeguarding issues, then it makes zero sense. Any half way decent vicar is absolutely not accepting random memory sticks that they have been told have porn on them. Bad vicars maybe. Stupid vicars perhaps. So Tennant is supposed to be which of those? Then having accepted it he puts it in the key bowl?

Here’s how the conversation goes when they realise what’s on it.
’Janice, this is awful. I am going to go down to the police station right now. Will you please come with me? I’ll explain the situation on the way. You may not believe what I have to say but we’ll put it in the hands of the police and let them investigate. This is incredibly serious and it would be wrong to do anything else.’

That’s it. Not going to be easy to explain and not easy for the teenager to go through that but as long as he hasn’t got a stash of his own on his computer - and I’m betting Edgar isn’t a genius at wiping all evidence off his - it’s all going to come out in the end who was really responsible.

Yes @ActonBell ! I sort of enjoyed it but also found that part quite irritatingly nonsensical. Why would you take the blame for child sex abuse and risk losing your family, home, job, friends, LIFE to protect someone at work, vulnerable or not??

This is doing my head in.

I said I wasn’t going to watch and yet here I am.

I'm both loving this and hating the glaring plot holes in this.

Why on earth would anyone cover up for Edgar, especially at the expense of your own family and sanity?!

I was really looking forward to this when I saw it advertised but it's absolutely not what I was expecting. It's really annoying me, but I can't seem to switch off.

Why did he so quickly change his story from the truth and say it was his?! And cover up for a paedophile, regardless of how vulnerable?! His wife is particularly awful too.

Stanley Tucci is really annoying me too and I usually like him.

What a pile of tosh

I thought work frustrated me beyond measure today.

I was wrong.

There must be some subliminal shit in this @QueenImprov

i can’t bloody turn it off either.

I've decided I can enjoy it if I see it as a weird Dr Who episode 😄

😁 @Signeduptosimplyreplytothis

as long as those freaky angel statues don’t turn up I’ll join you

Might be one in the cellar waiting...

Why on earth did Janice just handcuff herself to the pipe without a fight?

I think she's meant to be the "mysterious spinster with nothing to lose" type

Oh bloody hell.

Woah!!