Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Telly addicts

The Split Barcelona

221 replies

oatmy · 29/12/2024 21:35

Anybody watching? I have questions!

  • Why are they so cool about Liv getting married, she can't be older than 20?
  • Surely her brother would have come back for the wedding?
  • When Rose said she was missing 'the girls' I thought she meant children, but it sounds like they haven't had any yet?
OP posts:
Thread gallery
7
SadOrWickedFairy · 01/01/2025 22:02

He was an IT student from Argentina in S3!

Glad you confirmed that as I was sure he was from a South American country! Didn't Liv meet him when she was out there on a gap year or something?

I am probably thinking too deeply here but I have now noticed that all the uncool, not part of the beautiful people, not like us are male and BAME - Rosie's first husband, the vicar who she is with now, and Nina's new boyfriend in this special. All of them set up to be ridiculous characters and ridiculed.

excelledyourself · 01/01/2025 23:15

Gael is a waste of space. Imagine seeing your mother betrayed like that, and instead of supporting her, you do a bunk and make the whole thing about yourself?

But I didn't like Liv either, so best they just stick together.

I understood the whole simplistic wedding over an extravaganza, but good grief, there really was zero shits given about how she looked.

I do have a soft spot for Nathan. Although I'm sure he pissed me off massively last time around.

Italiangreyhound · 02/01/2025 01:10

Glen is my favourite character and James was super hot. I think Rose has the best storylines.

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 02/01/2025 01:55

I've been ill o er Christmas and new year and needed something to watch. I'd never seen or heard of The Split and watched it all from start to finish.

I agree with all the comments about the clothes, the storylines and the plot holes. But the thing that absolutely baffles me is why Nathan and Hannah ever split up in the first place.

FabulousPharmacyst · 02/01/2025 13:47

AreYouShittingMe · 31/12/2024 08:22

I enjoyed it, despite its silliness and plot holes. Hannah had two people she fell for when she was a student, and after years of being married to Nathan, Christie came back as I imagine she had lots of 'what ifs...' about choosing Nathan.
We've ways known family is very important to Hannah, and it was lovely to see here. It was a better story IMHO that she met someone new, who also values family, rather than end up back with Nathan. Her and Nathen will always have their family and shared life, which came across well in the programme. Although it was hard to gauge if Nathan was genuinely happy with his new family. Loved the 'I'm not your person anymore speech' and Hannah's vulnerability at the end.
Good between Christmas and New Year non- taxing viewing (but I would be less impressed at a different time of year 😆)

I felt bad for Kate 😂 2 under 2 and married to a man still married in his head to his ex

tribpot · 02/01/2025 13:49

Was there a reason given for why Kate and the children (aka Liv's siblings) hadn't travelled for the wedding?

Soonenough · 02/01/2025 14:01

@ tribpot Nathan said it was too much for them to travel with two kids under two.

fairytailcat · 02/01/2025 14:03

Soonenough · 02/01/2025 14:01

@ tribpot Nathan said it was too much for them to travel with two kids under two.

The actress wasn't available for filming

1AngelicFruitCake · 02/01/2025 16:00

Anyone else find Rose an interesting/frustrating character? She looks so beautiful in all of her outfits and is clearly intelligent then floats around not really doing anything. Shes so mean to the vicar and she was quite mean to James. I want her to find something for herself.

Ariadneefron · 02/01/2025 16:49

FabulousPharmacyst · 02/01/2025 13:47

I felt bad for Kate 😂 2 under 2 and married to a man still married in his head to his ex

I second this emotion. I felt she was presented as a situation rather than a character, the awful girlfriend who gets pregnant so Nathan is now stuck, which is very reductive and a bit misogynistic. You haven't been given a sense of her positive qualities (and for God's sake, it's Lara Pulver, she has positive qualities). Or of him enjoying his new relationship and his children.

Having said that, I do feel like if you were going to make the decision of using Ye Olde Misogynistic Plotte Device,Two Women Catfighting Over A Man , which is what they did use, maybe wedding holiday tensions between Kate and Hannah and her sisters would have been more interesting and more to the point in terms of moving the central characters story along than whatever it was with Ren.

The point of the show, I thought, was the tensions of the main couple's split. Whereas that business with the father in law's mistress pretending to be the lawyers date and then Hannah fancies the lawyer and the lawyer fancies Hannah so there's a contrived miscommunication that frankly undermined Toby Stephens as a romantic lead because condoning adultery is a bad look for a hero. And then the show-down and the attempt to explain to the viewers what's happening , and Ren wants a settlement, and nobody can explain why, and all the main characters are basically standing around like spectators going ' Oh christ this is shitshow'. And everyone watching is going ' Oh Christ, this is a shit show'. I have heard more tightly plotted stories told under a blanket at Scout camp by someone shining a torch up their chin.

Liliputian · 02/01/2025 22:42

Thought this was awful … so so cringe in so many places they should’ve billed it as a feature-length special (90 minutes) and cut a third of the content because there were so many pointless shots and sequences that were repetitive, meaningless, hollow and just boring … and how does Nina’s boyfriend qualify as a “disinterested party” to serve court papers to the man she’s been hired to sue for divorce?? Just so many inexplicably lazy and cliched plot points and ideas … I can’t remember the last time I had to keep skipping forward through scenes in a tv drama …

MarkWithaC · 03/01/2025 09:34

My DP thinks Gael and Liv met in Argentina but he wasn't necessarily from there. I'm not convinced about that though. And yes, how come they didn't know about his family before this?
What a baby he was flouncing off, and for what reason really? His parents' marriage wasn't a fairy tale. Grow up and man up, I thought.

Toby Stephens has that irritating public school delivery, soft 't's and almost a hint of American. Also his nostrils are weirdly wide and face the wrong way.

I am almost alone in liking Hannah's navy dress. I thought it was chic among the clichéd florals.

Totally agree that in this world you're either a soignée and expensively dressed Defoe, or you're an incorrigible nerd with allergies or a stammer and fated to go under a bus or have your arse shown you by Nina.

Speaking of... that little lesbian interlude was so weird and just seemed shoehorned in for the husbands strong-armed into watching. (too cynical?)

Glad to read it wasn't really Barcelona. I sat there thinking, 'I don't remember it looking like that.'

I still don't really get the mistress thing – why Wren turned up, what she hoped to achieve, how they agreed to get her to leave, and WHY the FUCK would a married man get engaged?!? Affairs I can understand, but that was just ridiculous. They didn't even need to be engaged for the plot; it would be enough to have the mistress turn up and Toby S dragooned into pretending he's engaged to her.
I also don't get why Valentina waited to deal with her husband's affair until it would screw up Gael's wedding day and then threw a hissy fit about his wedding day being screwed up!

I wanted Christie to turn up. He's hot.

I find Nathan to be a wet lettuce. He/the script was a bit cruel about his new wife and kids though.

If there was a new full series I'd watch it, don't get me wrong, just for the clothes, Nicola Walker, and the occasional nice sisterly moment.

PeachyKeane · 03/01/2025 09:39

Christie is gorgeous 😍 bring him back, I say! Or he could perhaps have his own spin off show.....

KiIIingMeDeftly · 03/01/2025 10:31

Christie was hot in the first season but bit creepy by the end of season 2. He redeemed himself in 3, though it wasn't surprising when Hannah refused to move to NYC for him.

Still can't believe the actor's name is Barry 😆

MissMarplesNiece · 03/01/2025 11:51

Am I the only person here who didn't fancy Christie? I couldn't see at all why Hannah bothered with him.

marthaisintheway · 03/01/2025 11:58

I didn't think Christie was hot either. Nathan however....

Maddy70 · 03/01/2025 12:08

fairytailcat · 30/12/2024 09:05

Why were the streets of Barcelona so empty

And the beach?

It was shot in Sitges south of Barcelona they closed the streets off to film

Maddy70 · 03/01/2025 12:14

I loved it. Despite all the plot holes particularly as you would definitely need a Spanish lawyer

WhatToWrite · 03/01/2025 12:35

I loved it. Agree with almost every criticism of it but still loved it. 😀

I have a New Look version of the blue pleated dress, it was about £40 and honestly it's absolutely gorgeous on. One of my all time favourites. Wouldn't wear it to a wedding in Spain though, to be fair.

SomewhereInMyHeart · 03/01/2025 12:46

marthaisintheway · 03/01/2025 11:58

I didn't think Christie was hot either. Nathan however....

Hear hear!

MarkWithaC · 03/01/2025 13:23

WhatToWrite · 03/01/2025 12:35

I loved it. Agree with almost every criticism of it but still loved it. 😀

I have a New Look version of the blue pleated dress, it was about £40 and honestly it's absolutely gorgeous on. One of my all time favourites. Wouldn't wear it to a wedding in Spain though, to be fair.

TBF it was the drinks/dinner the night before the wedding.
Wonder if they still have it in New Look…

MarkWithaC · 03/01/2025 13:31

Thanks!

ApolloandDaphne · 03/01/2025 13:41

I loved it but to be honest I think I was ready for a bit of an escapist watch. I didn't need it to be at all realistic.

Swipe left for the next trending thread