THE JETTY. MON 15th July - BBC 9pm - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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The series arrives on BBC One on Monday 15th July at 9pm.

4 episodes

After a property in a scenic Lancashire lake town is destroyed by a fire, Jenna Coleman's Detective Ember Manning draws a connection between a "podcast journalist investigating a missing persons cold case and an illicit relationship between a man in his twenties and two underage girls".

The Jetty which sees a fire tear through a holiday home in a scenic Lancashire lake town.
Detective Ember Manning (played by Jenna Coleman) is tasked with working out how the fire connects to a podcast journalist who is investigating a missing persons cold case and an illicit love triangle between a man in his 20s and two underage girls.

But as Manning hurtles towards the truth, "it threatens to destroy her life – forcing her to re-evaluate everything she thought she knew about her past, present and the town she's always called home".

Jenna Coleman leads the cast as Detective Ember Manning, who is investigating a case that "threatens to unravel the threads of her past".

She stars alongside:
• Tom Glynn-Carney (House of the Dragon, SAS Rogue Heroes, Dunkirk)
• Ruby Stokes (Lockwood & Co, Rocks, Una)
• Archie Renaux (The Greatest Beer Run, Shadow and Bone, Romulus)
• Laura Marcus (The Great Escaper, Bad Education, The Serpent Queen)
• Bo Bragason (The Ballad of Renegade Nell, The Radleys)
• Weruche Opia (High Desert, Slumberland, I May Destroy You)
• Amelia Bullmore (Happy Valley, The Larkins, Scott and Bailey)
• Matthew McNulty (The Rising, Domina, The Terror)
• Ralph Ineson (Nosferatu, The Witch, Green Knight)
• David Ajala (Italian Studies)
• Nina Barker-Francis (The Flash)
• Miya Ocego (Wreck, I Hate Suzie)
• Elliot Cowan (Fifteen-Love, The Crown)
• Shannon Watson
• Arthur Hughes (Then Barbara Met Alan, Help)
• Dominic Coleman (Paddington, Trollied)
• Ruaridh Mollica (Sebastian, Red Rose)

I'm sure it said he was 20

I think the programme seemed scared of making too big a point about grooming so made Malachy really not significantly older seeming or looking than Amy and also aged Amy up. This blurred the lines a bit so we wouldn't be too freaked out by the idea of Ember and Mack.

And those stupid names did never have a point.

Well Ember was just because of the fire theme.

But I quite like the name Ember actually

Yes, I assumed it was symbolism.

But it just feels like a lot of this is very juvenile writing.

What was the spider quote she said meaning ?

I think it meant she was trapped in the middle of it all. Trapped in a web around her

The senior police officer told her she was the spider earlier in Ep 4. For no apparent reason.

I think it was alluding to a web of lies
(Although unintentional in Ember's case)

So Ember finally realised she had killed Amy but blamed it on Arj . And the 'happy little ending' with her , her mum and her daughter wasn't what it seemed to be .

Ember hadn't really been a character you could empathise with and she'd have to live with what she'd done for the rest of her life , but I didn't think it would bother her that much .

Ember was the spider in the centre of the web of lies and deceit.

Ember said Amy was in the year below her at school so Amy was 15 (turning 16 at some point) and Ember turned 17 whilst dating Malachy.

And the Japanese knotweed was a complete rabbit hole as well despite making a big deal of it in episode 2.

Yes the plant meant nothing

Right so year younger meant 15 turning 16

Wonder why Amy was wild

Was it as dad was shagging /they didn't really like her

Oh God, yes, the Knotweed!!

Oh , the knotweed . I did a post about it , they fooled me with a red herring 😅

At least it showed grooming as not exclusively focused on a certain group that seems to get a very bad rap in the media.

Was Ember in the same school as Amy and Kitty ?
Was it supposed to be a small village or a town ?
If a village they should know about each other, shouldn't they?

I'm guessing Amy was so wild as she was desperately craving attention. Both her parents ignored her but the more outrageous her behaviour she then got a negative reaction from her dad. And by her sexual behaviour she got attention from men. Even when she went missing neither parent seemed that bothered. Amy told Kitty she was invisible.

They got "a very bad rap in the media" because they systematically raped young girls.

The Jetty is a very different scenario. The events you appear to be referring to should not be used as a comparison here.

Yes for a small town that hitch is friends with the crew and a copper

I'm amazed that ember didn't know Amy and Caitlin as only in year below

I've never seen "a certain group" portrayed in a TV drama apart from the docudrama Three Girls in 2017 about the Rochdale grooming gangs. On the contrary, even Corrie goes out of its way to portray groomers as always white.

I don't know @Blondeshavemorefun - I went to a large comprehensive, and certainly didn't know anyone in the year below.

Not even the really wild one who was shagging your actual boyfriend?? 😉

Yes - Ember not knowing her was odd.

Malachy was born in 1981, so he was 25/26 when Ember turned 17 and Amy went missing in 2007.

Oh, well spotted!

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-jetty-almost-had-different-ending/

This is interesting- messing about with it loads in early shots and workshops explains why there were plot holes and lots of the actual narrative from earlier scenes didn't matter. In particular the fact that Caitlin was missing from so much of the present and then suddenly introduced as a perfectly traceable lecturer makes sense if she was to be a killer in hiding!