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MAGPIE MURDERS. SAT 9.15 BBC 1 - tv pace. NO SPOILERS

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Blondeshavemorefun · 27/03/2023 13:37

An unmarried, middle-aged editor named Susan Ryeland receives from her superior the handwritten manuscript of the latest projected novel of the best-selling writer Alan Conway, but notices that the final chapter is missing.

Shortly afterwards, she learns that Alan Conway has died in an apparent suicide by falling off the tower of his mansion.

A suicide note in Conway's own handwriting is delivered to her office.

However, she has nagging doubts about the reality of the events, and decides to investigate Conway's death in order to know the truth, and to find where the last chapter of the manuscript went.

new drama for Saturday night - 6 parts

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bizzey · 01/04/2023 23:47

Sorry ,,that was very curt of me
AFlockOfTugers !!
DS inturupted me.

I sort of got the connection between the sister?(?) and lady of the big house...but wasn't sure if I was following it all properly.

I think it will grow on me.

PrincessFiorimonde · 02/04/2023 00:49

Watched it as I loved Foyle's War. This seemed a bit lightweight, somehow. But will certainly watch at least one more episode in the hope that I feel more drawn in as the series goes on.

I quite liked the double cast/plot thing.

Just one tiny niggle. I'm pretty sure Andreas said he was going to watch a Premier League football match on TV at 3pm on a Saturday - and proceeded to do so. But, in order to protect attendances at matches, league games are NEVER broadcast on TV in the UK at that time (except, I think, during Covid when fans were not allowed in to stadiums to watch). I know this is a tiny thing, but it irks me when small factual errors are made, because it makes me wonder what other little (or bigger) things might also be factually incorrect.

If, of course, I misheard the time - or if Andreas was in fact illegally streaming the match from a non-UK broadcaster - I withdraw that comment!

MrsLargeEmbodied · 02/04/2023 07:30

i also loved her clothes, her shirt she wore in the first episode with the yellow in it!
gorgeous

butterpuffed · 02/04/2023 08:07

Was looking forward to this but didn't really enjoy it . I normally like Leslie M but the constant rushing around in a frenetic way was irritating.

Will stick with this for the moment to see if I settle into it .

LadyEloise1 · 02/04/2023 10:25

I spotted places I know in Dublin.
Down by the Grand Canal, near Baggot Street, the Pepper Canister church on Mount Street.
I think the Lesley Manville character's home/house is on Percy Place or very nearby.
A lovely Georgian / Victorian part of Dublin.

AFlockOfTigers · 02/04/2023 10:36

Oh I didn't realise it was shot in Dublin. The shots of Liverpool St etc set the scene so clearly that I totally bought the publishers and Susan's house being in London even though in retrospect the architectural idiom is slightly off for Georgian London.

JoanThursday1972 · 02/04/2023 15:59

I downloaded it but haven't watched it but having seen in a TV guide that it's "cosy crime" and a "playful crime caper" I probably won't watch. I don't want gangster atrocities but I do like a good police procedural.

AFlockOfTigers · 02/04/2023 16:28

JoanThursday1972 · 02/04/2023 15:59

I downloaded it but haven't watched it but having seen in a TV guide that it's "cosy crime" and a "playful crime caper" I probably won't watch. I don't want gangster atrocities but I do like a good police procedural.

It's absolutely not a police procedural. Of the parallel narratives one is has a Poirot style private detective and one is an amateur investigator.

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Blondeshavemorefun · 02/04/2023 20:23

Seen

Easy watching and enjoyed

But did get a little confused with the double role acting

Love Lesley M esp in mum

She never seems to age

But will def watch e2 next week

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Elderflower14 · 02/04/2023 21:36

We started to watch it as we live in Mid Suffolk. Recognised Woodbridge train station and Kersey splash...
Gave up though as it was too jumpy and confusing. Shame!

3littlebeans · 02/04/2023 21:47

Oooh sounds good!

Faffandahalf · 02/04/2023 21:52

It’s brilliant. Such a fun concept that’s never been done before really with the detective inside the detective novel.
She’s the editor of a crime novel reading the crime novel and that’s the novel we’re watching on screen alongside her story too.
I thought that was quite clever. The idea that the writer was this awful man who put people from his real life in the novel so he could be cruel about them.
LM was great. Her clothes were gorgeous.

3littlebeans · 02/04/2023 21:55

Can we binge it or will it appear weekly? (Sorry of its been asked before!)

AFlockOfTigers · 02/04/2023 22:23

3littlebeans · 02/04/2023 21:55

Can we binge it or will it appear weekly? (Sorry of its been asked before!)

You can binge it on iPlayer, but if you mention stuff from unbroadcast episodes on this thread you will incur the Wrath Of Blondes, so be warned.

bizzey · 02/04/2023 23:24

I hope Blonds has her pitchfork sharpened ready for the ones who come on and talk about episode 5 from BBC iPlayer when the the TV series is only upto episode 3 in real time !!!

I want to watch and follow this thread weekly.

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Blondeshavemorefun · 03/04/2023 07:06

@AFlockOfTigers

Indeed you don't want the wrath of me 😂😂😂

Tho e1 was only on sat - I assumed 2 was on next sat

Where are the other @bizzey

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Mangoesontherun · 03/04/2023 07:54

But I'm not sure about the double casting of Daniel Mays as the two cops - I think they're just doing that for the hell of it.

This didn't make sense to me because Alan Conway didn't know Detective Locke did he? So why would he base the Detective Chubb character on him in his book?

SoupDragon · 03/04/2023 08:06

Blondeshavemorefun · 03/04/2023 07:06

@AFlockOfTigers

Indeed you don't want the wrath of me 😂😂😂

Tho e1 was only on sat - I assumed 2 was on next sat

Where are the other @bizzey

The episode for this coming Saturday is listed as Episode 2

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Blondeshavemorefun · 03/04/2023 08:20

Ah cook @SoupDragon I got confused with @bizzey comment

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AFlockOfTigers · 03/04/2023 08:23

Mangoesontherun · 03/04/2023 07:54

But I'm not sure about the double casting of Daniel Mays as the two cops - I think they're just doing that for the hell of it.

This didn't make sense to me because Alan Conway didn't know Detective Locke did he? So why would he base the Detective Chubb character on him in his book?

Yes, also my problem.

The alternative explanation is that Susan is "casting" characters as she reads them. Also doesn't make strict sense because the policeman turns up in the scenes from the novel before she meets him IRL, and she hasn't met the boyfriend or the sister at all yet - probably best not to overthink it.

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Blondeshavemorefun · 03/04/2023 09:30

I think I need to rewatch it

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KrasiTime · 03/04/2023 10:17

Loved it!

Different I thought.

martinisforeveryone · 03/04/2023 10:59

I’m going to have to watch it again too. I was distracted.

bizzey · 03/04/2023 12:03

All episodes are available on BBC iPlayer.
It has happened on some other threads where , because people have watch on "TV " ..they therefore think it has been broadcast .

But in reality it hasn't as it has not been broadcast in the weekly episode .

Abra1t · 03/04/2023 12:11

I may be misremembering but in the book I think the switches between detective novel and RL were less frequent? One chunk of novel in the middle?

I like it. The subverting of the golden age detective novel is good. Love Lesley M too. I want the zigzag jumper from episode 2.