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

Pmsl @BrandNewBicep

Yes, I thought the actresses who played them were excellent!

I also like the actress who plays Pat. In the latest CS book, The Ink Black Heart, she’s one of my favourite characters.

Pat , in the books, is beautifully described and so funny too.

I adore JKR writing. Just binged watched troubled blood and loved it. Thought the acting all round was superb.

JKR is a national treasure
A writer in the same league as Dickens.

I’m looking forward to 3&4

wonder when book 6 will be filmed and if will do all 10

Pat is my new favourite character, she needs to be in it more!

@Blondeshavemorefun are ten books of Strike JKR’s plan?

Yes sure I read that somehwhere

So google says

Thank you @Blondeshavemorefun great news, the books are so good!

Welcome @Workerbeep I haven’t read the books so like watching as don’t known he plot or how they will end

Looking forward to tonight's

Does anyone know what time it’s on? As just settled down to watch & Top Gear is on!

920 I think. I’m a few mins behind

Just finished watching on iplayer. Enjoyed it!

Looking forward to season 14, set in 2023, in which Robin finally trades in her beat-up land rover following the expansion of the London ULEZ 😁

Oh that was a good episode

lots of info

recap e3

incase @LadyEloise1 you didn’t see it and can’t do iPlayer

I'm watching the tv series in broadcast time having read the books. I think the adaptation overall is pretty good viewers would enjoy the extra detail in the book if they haven't read it.

There are some significant differences - sub plots left out, group of characters left out and both replaced by collapsing some events and people into new subplots/people. Some shifting of events as well. However unless they would need a much larger cast and at least ten episodes to do it as per the book. I think it captures the story and events well enough, even if not a literal adaptation.

Thank you @Blondeshavemorefun
I watched it. 👍

I kind of wish they would take in all the extra detail for the screen adaptations and make the serieses twice as long

Especially for the next one as its so complex

What book 6 is complex

Without spoilers, there are large & crucial chunks of book 6 that would be extremely difficult to televise.

I binge watched the whole thing but was left feeling slightly unfulfilled. TB is my favourite of the Strike books and like pp, I wish they had kept more of the original and made the series longer, it would have made for a better pace. As it was it felt a bit rushed and superficial, it was more like an ITV drama.

Agree that the casting of Pat is superb, she's a terrific character, and the relationship between strike and his aunt and uncle was very sweet.

I wonder how they'll do The Ink Black Heart, as so much of it is set online. It's overly long too so won't suffer from some heavy editing. Hope JKR gets back on track for the rest of the series, otherwise we'll end up with a HP scenario with the books getting longer and longer and nobody being brave enough to tell her to cut 10,000 words!

Oh. Intrigued now