STRIKE 5 - TROUBLED BLOOD - bbc 1 9m sun and mon - TV PACE ONLY. NO SPOILERS

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Yah no 5 of the strike series starts on Sunday

BBC
Based on the 2020 novel, the second most recent in the Strike series, Troubled Blood sees Strike tackling his first ever cold case.

The official synopsis the season says: "Private detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he’s approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough, who went missing under mysterious circumstances in 1974.

"Strike’s never tackled a cold case before let alone one 40 years old, but despite the slim chance of success, he’s intrigued and takes it on, adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency Robin Ellacott are currently working on. Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.

"As Strike and Robin investigate Margot’s disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. They learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly

@Blondeshavemorefun Thank you once again for including me in the "heads up".
Looking forward to this. I love a good 9pm Sunday evening series. Will watch with dh.
We both like Strike.

Welcome all 😘

I've not seen any of the Strike series on TV but have read all the books. I wonder if I should watch this now, or better to watch the earlier ones on catch-up first (presuming they are on catch-up!)

@Bimbleberries yes watch if you can as stories kinda interlink

thanks, I'll save them then. I have read the books, so i do know the stories kind of, but I've forgotten a lot of the details, so it might be more enjoyable to watch as a series.

Looking forward to this. Absolutely perfect casting imo

Here we go

should be work

bloody snow and can’t get there

May I join you, I've loved all the books but never seen the TV shows.

Oh please start the TV shows from the beginning! They are well worth watching all the way through. I think they are all available on iPlayer.

I'd never find time, I hardly watch TV, it just came on after Strictly.

That video :(

The timeline is all wrong! I listened to it on Audible again really recently, and they’ve turned it all on its head.

I read it fairly recently but am confused. Bits make sense.

Strike looks like he's lost weight. I like his scarf.

Can anyone tell me who the elderly couple in Cornwall are? I haven’t read all the books, we wondered if they may have fostered Strike as a child, I didn’t recall them from the TV series.

In the book the description of the video was awful.

I'm glad they have put Ted(?) and Joan in and not left them out because they have to get it all into 4 episodes.

Nice to see their faces change just that little bit when he was on the ferry and they caught sight of one another.

His aunt and uncle. I can't remember whether it's Ted or Joan who is the brother or sister of Strike's mother, Leda.

Looking forward to Episode 2

Was that St Mawes?

Thanks @upinaballoon

Ted was Leda's sister. In the books she says Strike looks like Ted.

They drive me nuts when they play with the timeline. They don't speak to Oonagh until half way through the book!

Not sure what to think of that, I agree the timeline being muddled was annoying. It felt rushed but then the book was so long it would have to be.

I’m not enjoying it at all. I don’t like the bits theyve changed. Strike looks good, Robin looks different. No one is how I imagined them except maybe Pat. Disappointed with how Margot comes across

Margot is completely different in the book. Oh
Pat is spot on though

@NearlyfiftyF thought the same about Robin and it turns out she had twins in may 2021! My face changed after pregnancy too.

Margot is described as clever and funny. I thought they captured that.
Although she didn’t confront Luca in the book.