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

[Blondeshavemorefun]

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

I wondered that too

Maddie has the measure of Miles

Just seen that The Guardian only gave one star

Both of mine had 2 tags, oldest was 8 in November and youngest is 4 in may.

Recap e1

www.whattowatch.com/features/playing-nice-episode-1-recap-what-sickening-bombshell-does-miles-drop-on-pete-and-maddie#

The guardians review of the show was accurate. After finishing the show, I had to agree with it. Absolute garbage

I just rewatched and noticed a few things

Mikes is def controlling which we know

When he says his wife Lucy doesn't drink she looks sad as if she wants to

He seems to play happy families and nice in company but ignores Lucy once they have gone

Didn't reliese miles has actually met their friends at the beach yet still pretended it was his sister few weeks later

Persist persist persist what he says when surfing

Lucy says David isn't used to hugs but went straight to maddie

He does look like her

Looking forward to e2 tonight

That was rather a strange line about David not being used to hugs.

The book goes more into David's health condition. It is a while since I read it, but I'm pretty sure David is meant to be immunocompromised, hence not used to be being around other people or other kids much.
I love James Norton in most things, but this was not so good, disappointing. It's a shame as it's his production company and he was an executive producer.

As most tv people know I like most things

But I did enjoy this

So looking forward to e2 tonight

I like that expression @Blondeshavemorefun , we're the tv people !

I was switched in the hospital, but fortunately the mix up was discovered.

This was back in the days when babies were taken to the nursery and brought to the mothers for feeds.

They handed a baby to my mum, who said "this isn't my baby". The nurses assured her it was but mum was adamant "my baby's prettier than this".

She was only believed because I had been a forceps delivery and had marks from the instrument on the sides of my head, which the other baby didn't have.

I can't understand how it could happen now, with wrist bands being attached to the baby almost before the cord is cut.

In the flashback to NICU, I don't think they showed Lucy's full face. So I'm wondering if the Lucy that gave birth, isn't the current Lucy?

I don't know quite where I'm going with this 😅 but it struck me that we didn't see all of Lucy's face

I thought we saw Lucy’s full face in NICU but I could be misremembering

I love James Norton and was looking forward to seeing this but it just isn't working for us .

It's not being shown on Virgin TV in Ireland yet .
So I shall save this thread and read it once I've seen the series.

A relative of mine lives in Newquay and swims most mornings with a group of women. Earlier last year they were all sat together after their swim enjoying a flask of tea and James Norton wandered over to them. He sat and chatted and had a cup of tea with them.

We/you are @butterpuffed 😂

Wow @HurdyGurdy19 Thank god your mum knew you

Then again as I said above I would know dd and if have. A diff baby would know

@HurdyGurdy19 tho maddie remembers her

@deeahgwitch Hope Ireland gets it soon

@Rogerstreasures Claim to fame !

I did wonder if Lucy swapped her baby Theo as was told May not survive and swapped to David and then felt guilt as he has sone issues

So she always know he wasn't theirs but assumed her real baby did die /very poorly but liked the power of miles not knowing

We did see Lucy's full face in NICU

I’ve just watched the first episode and thought it was very slow. I’m not sure I’m going to bother with the rest. I have read the book and did enjoy it (although can’t now recall how it ended).

I've only watched the first segment but I noted that James Norton's character and his wife both have blue eyes. If I remember rightly two brown eyed people can have a blue eyed child but two blue eyed can't have a brown eyed child.

It makes you think how many children in the past have been mixed up.
When people do ancestory tests they may believe that their great grandad was adopted into a family when really he could have been swapped at birth.

I saw that and read it too. The i newspaper gave it 4*