THE BOY THAT NEVER WAS - alibi tue 9&10pm - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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New 4 parter

On tonight at 9&10

And E 3&4 next tue 9&10

The Boy That Never Was season 1 is a new four-part psychological thriller starring Colin Morgan and Toni O’ Rourke as Irish couple Harry and Robin Lonergan, who face every parent's worst nightmare after their three-year-old son, Dillon, dies in an earthquake in Morocco and his body is never recovered.

Three years later the grieving husband and wife are attempting to rebuild their lives in Dublin when Harry becomes obsessed with a boy that he spots on his commute, believing him to be his son, now aged six.

Yet subsequent events threaten to tear apart their marriage and expose secrets about the night their child went missing…
Here’s everything we know about this tragedy thriller with a love story at its heart…

Viewers meet struggling artists Harry and Robin living a blissful life at their home in
Essaouira, Morocco where they live with their three-year-old son, Dillon.

Tragically, however, one evening, while waiting on Robin to return home from her job at a local hotel, Harry leaves Dillon sleeping alone in their apartment while he steps out briefly.

In that moment, everything changes. An earthquake hits and, despite Harry racing back to rescue Dillon, their home is reduced to rubble.

Tragically, after an exhaustive rescue attempt, Dillon is declared dead, although his body is never recovered.

Three years later the grieving couple have returned to Dublin when Harry becomes convinced that he’s sighted Dillon.

Desperate to be reunited with his son, he obsessively tries to track the boy down, bringing his marriage to breaking point in the process.

Yet the idea of their son being alive isn’t as far-fetched as those around him believe. When Harry obtains footage from the train station Robin deletes it without him knowing.

Is she hiding a secret that could tear them apart or trying to protect her troubled husband from himself?

“This is a four-part tragedy thriller series about a young couple living a bohemian life. He's a painter, she's an architect, but she's working in a bar.”

Colin Morgan (Belfast, Legend) stars as Harry Lonergan.
Toni O’Rourke (God’s Creatures, Calm with Horses) plays Robin Lonergan.
Kerr Logan (Alias Grace, Strike) plays Robin’s brother Ollie.

Maybe you will like it? We all have different tastes ability to suspend belief

We do 😂

3&4 tonight

Not watched it yet but from the description it sounds very similar to a book I’ve read, can’t for the life of me think what it’s called though

It might be based on a book

Just googled and it is a book of the same name! Great book look forward to watching the series

It is, never read it though

Thank god then we can talk about it

I blasted through eps 1 & 2 tonight, may go the whole hog.

Just seen 3. I will watch 4 tomorrow am as shattered

But feel free to discuss on here s4 /ending as been on tv and I will avoid thread till seen last episode

Cosmo is invested and not sure why

He knows Affair with Dave

I will say I'm Confused with the back and forth and Dave and Harry

As both beardy blokes and look similar - to me 😂 tho Harry is hairier 😂😂

And sexier imo and I don't do beards

So Dillon is Dave's not Harry's

We still don't know if dillion is alive at end of e3

Assume e4 will reveal the plot and who /how /why /if alive

Traffickers or .......

Will avoid now so discuss @Phase2 to your hearts content

E3 recap

reelmockery.com/the-boy-that-never-was-series-1-episode-3-recap/

We know she deleted the footage because it showed Dillon's brother Felix.

I was so confused by the money they all had to go hoofing off to Morocco and ditch jobs etc every two minutes (exaggeration).

And the brother got done over in real time, and Harry accused him of selling Dillon. Friendly drug lord was happy to let them all go rather than kill then for threatening his 'colleagues'

But the hilarity of episode 4 cannot be rivalled.

The trailers reminded me of the programme "The Missing" with James Nesbitt a few years ago. Are there similarities?

So for me it was a mash up of loads of over things I've watched tbh. Part The Missing and part various other missing child tropes.

Omg. Finally seen E4

Wow

Don't read any further unless seen

But it's been on tv now so fair game and why I avoided the thread

E4 recap

reelmockery.com/the-boy-that-never-was-series-1-finale-episode-4-recap/

Ok. Wow

Right so dillion wasnt dead

I kinda got something was going on once they got Eva's name

I rem she was with Dave from e3 and the photo in paper she saw

Sooooooo

Basically Dave and Robin had a son - dillion but she passed off as Harrys

Dave and Eva had a son called Felix

Felix died - sad - but stupid having balcony's like that - so Dave thought he would go and get his other son

So when they saw the boy at the station - Robin assumed it was Felix but looked like dillion as half Brothers

But

Actually was dillion

As Dave came back. Saw Harry had left dillion and kidnapped him

Tech if he hasn't he would have prob been dead buried and squashed

But how did he convince his wife Eva that to replace Felix with dillion

So looking after her husbands love child basically

Guess grief makes you so weird things

So dillion then lives his life as Felix I assume or they call him dillion at Dave's and Eva's?

Till Robin turned up and reliesed that was her son

So all ended happily for Harry Robin and dillion coming home and she's heavily preg

While like Dave and Eva now have 2 children to mourn

If I was Dave I would have wanted rights as his dad so make the other 2 share him

@duc748 @Shityshitybangbang @deeahgwitch @Phase2

Like my recap 😂😂😂

It was good. A little long winded

All of the Ollie stuff wasn't really needed and a huge red herring

I wasn't going to bother with this, but I read a couple of spoilerish reviews on imdb, and thought it looked worth a look. A couple of people said, in eps 3 & 4 it turns into a different story completely from the first two eps, and I think that's rue, but I didn't mind that. None of the trio of Harry, Robin, and Ollie were particularly likeable characters.