STRIKE THE INK BLACK HEART. mon&tue bbc 1 9pm - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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I know there is a thread for this but I started to read and all talking about the book and plot so I stopped reading - I think that one may be for bingers as all will be shown on iPlayer (which drives me nuts) 😡

So this as usual will be tv paced

4 episodes. Mon and Tue this week and then 23 and 24th next week so all wrapped up by Christmas 💖

New book THE INK BLACK HEART

Robin and Corrmoran are back

This time the pair delve into the case of the cartoon creator Eddie Ledwell.

She tells Robin she is being persecuted by an anon online figure spreading hate and is found dead in a cemetery ,,,,,,,,,,

So who do we think Anomie is

I think too obvious to be Wally/drak

Prob not the fiance Philip

Nils landlord

Pez ex

Katya

Rea

Yasmin

Possibly a woman as seems catty to mention her suicide etx

So I'm going for katya

Probably be wrong 😂

It's great - I rewatched all the old series last week in preparation. 😁

You will have something new to watch every night until beyond Christmas. I hope you enjoy it.

This is my least favourite of the Strike books..... pages and pages of online chat..... so it is going to be difficult to condense for TV. They are doing their best, but I'm not sure how well it will hold the attention.
I am a huge fan of JKR, but sometimes I do think that she needs a more assertive editor!

I did wonder if they film these as she was well known as hp but not know under Robert Galbraith

Agreed. The book is loooooong and though excellent, the pages of chat room interaction could do with being edited. So far I really like it.

It was a bloke and a girl, and he was being patronising to her about the Pre-Raphaelite painting but Strike and Midge agreed that wasn't why he was going around with her.

Whoever wrote that is confused. Mitch Patterson is head of a rival agency (and he's really bad at it, though I can't remember which book that's in). Midge is the woman who Strike handed over to and she is an ex cop with an ex girlfriend who is really into Ink Black Heart.

The books are brilliant plus the first one sold well before people knew it was JKR (iirc)

@drspouse I read that and didn't even click. Thanks

I would say Katya at this point, except that Josh also got stabbed and that wouldn’t benefit her at all. So maybe Edie’s uncle, he benefits from her death and was very irritating in the one scene he’s been in!

I'm saying Katya as well

She didn't kill Josh thi. Just maimed him and now he's the sole owner of the game etx

She's their agent. It was till edie left ana no one will take Josh on now so it's a win win

Or that's why I'm saying her

Probably totally wrong 😂

She still seems suspicious to me. Huge list of suspects. Not her on it 😂

I know they are crossing people off but if there are Two then maybe other one is online when the other is being followed

Iyswim

I don't think it's pez

Fiance def dodgy esp after hiding and hitting Barclay on the bike

Hope he's ok

Enjoyed e2 much more

E2 recap

www.whattowatch.com/features/strike-the-ink-black-heart-episode-2-recap-the-lies-get-deeper-and-tensions-rise#

Ah, glad there's a thread that's not all about the books!

Enjoying this, but it is confusing, so many characters with names I can't remember!

I agree @Clawdy there are so many characters with names I can't remember.
And adult animated cartoons aren't something I find interesting 😀
I see Susan Tully aka Michelle Fowler of Eastenders fame is the director.

I'm going for Inigo/daughter combo killing Edie

I’m enjoying this much more than the book. Even better, I can’t remember whodunnit.

Interesting

Due ti jealousy ?

I've never read the books

You know me @Clawdy

Always tv pace so can absorb and chat about theories

I’ve just finished watching ep 2. If Josh is telling the truth, the uncle is out, he didn’t look particularly light on his feet! Nils is an odd one, isn’t he? And what’s the fiance up to? I’m happy to say I have no clue whodunnit as of now. Pez is growing on me a little, I hope it wasn’t him!

Light on feet could mean a girl

Just as voice is male could be like on scream and voice box changer

Also not necessarily someone who directly knew pertinent information as the game had scope to extract secrets in the gate keeping bit of the chat (eg what's your favourite dog?)

Anomie could have any number of secrets without leaving the server room, and might be several people.

I haven't read the book, but have form for spotting foreshadowing, and the game question pinged my spidey senses.

Trig the time she tried to Jill herself they knew about that and that was her close 6 friends/suspects

I tried to read a couple of the books but just couldn't get on with them although FiL raved about them. I've watched, and enjoyed, all the adaptations so far but I'm finding there are an awful lot of characters in this one. At the end I was going through the cast list trying to work out who everyone was and there were quite a few I didn't know.

I'll stick with it though.

I’ve just watched episode 1 and 2, Inigo seems way over invested and would have had access to lots of information through his wife Katya.

The bald bloke with the Norse letter on his head was waiting for Strike because he recognised Strike from the park earlier when Strike fell over in the pub, so the big bald guy realised Strike had been following him.

Is Philip Ormond the doctor from Poldark? He seems very fishy. Too fishy to be it.

I can’t remember what was happening with the two people strike was following in the art gallery.

I am enjoying it, a lot more than season 1 episode 1. DH and I were just talking about the Justin Baldoni scandal with Blake Lively, he’d paid a PR firm to take down her reputation online including social media commentary and influencers, following her legitimate requests for safeguarding on set from sexual harassment and abuse by him and the producer, so it was interesting to then start this up.