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PLAYING NICE - sun&mon 5/6Jan ITV 9pm a TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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Blondeshavemorefun · 30/12/2024 15:30

New 4 part psychological thriller series

On Sunday 5 and mon 6th

And

Sunday 12 and Monday 13

mes Norton (www.digitalspy.com/tv/a63102573/james-norton-bbc-period-drama-2025-release/)'s intense drama follows two couples – Pete Riley (Happy Valley (www.digitalspy.com/happy-valley/)'s Norton) and his partner Maddie Wilson (Niamh Algar (www.digitalspy.com/tv/a60668764/iris-niamh-algar-tom-hollander/)) along with Miles (
James McArdle) and Lucy Lambert (
Jessica Brown Findlay (www.digitalspy.com/tv/a26376159/downton-abbey-jessica-brown-findlay-show-success-unexpected/)
) – as they make one of the most heartbreaking discoveries any parent could make: that their 3-year-old sons, Theo and David, were switched at birth.

When pete and maddie find out that their son Theo was swapped at birth they try and ‘play nice’ with Theo’s birth parents

Not knowing what the other couple are planning

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TwigletsAndRadishes · 20/01/2025 13:10

RedToothBrush · 15/01/2025 14:05

Same reason the police were fucking ridiculous the entire series. Why investigate Pete but not Miles full stop?

There were so many things that were infuriatingly implausible about the whole thing. It's a shame because it had the makings of a great plot. If only they'd focused on what really might have happened in that scenario, instead of turning it into an outlandish murder thriller.

Would the family courts really have rules that Teho should live temporarily with Miles and Lucy on the basis of such flimsy evidence of alleged poor parenting when clearly all the allegations were coming straight from Miles who had an obvious agenda and they'd never been on SS radar for anything before? Confused

What was all that about the dead brother in Scotland? We never even found out whether Miles was implicated, or why he didn't speak to his mother after his brother died. And her turning up in the court room, only to walk out and not even have a conversation with Miles? Just odd and unbelievable.

And are we really to believe that Lucy was so desperate to protect her newborn son that she's swap him with someone else's and risk that child being harmed, rather than simply leave her controlling husband? I mean come on.

And that Maddie would just take all this on the chin and say 'Okay fair enough, well let me help you evade justice by covering up Miles's death for you. If we are caught we'll all go to jail and lose both the boys, but never mind that.'

Confused
Blondeshavemorefun · 20/01/2025 15:02

Maybe maddie thought best outcome
she knew she couldn’t fight and win miles

But could Lucy

now miles is dead …….

all these cliffs

dangerous to live near one 😂

same thing happened with the drama the other week

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honeylulu · 21/01/2025 12:17

Rather disappointing and implausible. Glad to see Miles getting his comeuppance but unbelievable that the police just believed the story and didn't investigate. GPS data would easily show Miles, Lucy and Maddie all on the cliff together, Lucy's calls to Maddie etc. And as another poster said, the house cameras would show Miles and Lucy leaving together.

Felt like there were some promising threads left trailing. Edith turning up and then not doing it explaining anything. Ollie, Jen and Mia characters were developed as if they were building up to something and then ... nothing. And the baby swap reasoning was nonsensical.

Oh well, still worth a watch. The scenery and acting was good though the actors were let down by poor material to work with.

When the shot showed the bare legs and feet on the shoreline at the end, I thought they were about to go skinny dipping and I was WTF!

TwigletsAndRadishes · 22/01/2025 15:01

It annoys me when I've invested time in something that started out so well, with so much potential, then it's as if the writer had a beginning and an end but didn't know quite how to tie the two toegether, so 3/4s of the way through the plot they just start chucking in outlandish and unbelievable twists that don't work if you actually stop to analyse them. They rely on the reader/viewer being a dim, easily pleased and unquestioning sort, who is happy to go along with whatever nonsense they are fed. It feels lazy, cynical and disrespectful. I honestly don't know how half these scripts get past the post in the first place. If they are book adaptations were the books that bad too, or have they just been poorly adapted to fit TV budget constraints?

If I thought I could get away with plots with so many holes in them I'd have written and produced several blockbusters or TV mini series myself by now. Sadly I credit the audience with more intelligence than that, which is why my book and script ideas have never got past that writers' block bit in the middle. If i wouldn't buy it then I can't seriously expect anyone else too either. Clearly I am too hard on myself. I should just pitch these cobbled together, implausible piles of nonsense anyway. 😂

Chicklette · 25/01/2025 22:25

So are they a Thruple now?!

purpleme12 · 25/01/2025 22:27

lol the way i took it was that Maddie and her husband stayed with their Theo and the other one stayed with the mum and they all kind of met up and things

deeahgwitch · 18/04/2025 09:12

MabelMora · 06/01/2025 23:22

I'm quite enjoying it, but I keep seeing Tommy Lee Royce and expecting him to go full psycho on Miles!

😂😂😂

deeahgwitch · 24/04/2025 17:55

I’ve just finished it.
Foolish me googled it so I knew the ending 🤷‍♀️🙈
I agree the ending was more than a wee bit implausible.
Surely horrible Miles’s death would be thoroughly investigated considering he was involved in a child custody case.
I agree with you @honeyluluthat the reason behind Lucy switching babies was nonsensical.
James Norton was an executive producer on the show - it’s a wonder he didn’t make it more plausible.

if you can, fans of James Norton watch Nowhere Special. It’s a brilliant movie that flew under the radar when it that came out in 2020. He is fantastic in it.
I think you’d love it @Blondeshavemorefun

purpleme12 · 24/04/2025 18:03

Yes that was mentioned earlier in the thread (Nowhere Special)

deeahgwitch · 25/04/2025 19:04

I thought Maddie was very well acted by Niamh Algar.
I wonder why they chose an Irish actress ?

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