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

Is Lucy drinking or alcohol free bubbly

Plus if so rich why did they use local hospital when their baby was prem

And not private hospital wing

Why didn’t Miles get arrested with the same “abduction” charge, only Pete? It’s a stupid charge anyway, no one was abducted

@JewelleryCat DH and I said exactly the same thing

Yes both dads should have been charged

E2 recap

www.whattowatch.com/features/playing-nice-episode-2-recap-pete-is-questioned-by-the-police-for-abduction-but-why#

Blondeshavemorefun · Today 22:02
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Plus if so rich why did they use local hospital when their baby was prem
And not private hospital wing

Grim as the NHS is at the moment, it’s still your best bet in a life/death situation

Know full well from current experience. Husband is booked in for critical surgery in late January. In and out since October. A and E is just fucking awful. First wait for bed, 27 hours (with sepsis). Second wait, 54 hours - again, sepsis - arthritis in his spine as an aside.imagine that, sitting in a hard, plastic chair. He was literally in the waiting room with IV antibiotics and fluids. Third admission, 60 hour wait for bed. He was in for 2.5 weeks.

however. Once he was on wards, the care was exemplary. He has his pre-op on 17th and life saving surgery a week later.

Private is fine but if you need life saving surgery, NHS teaching hospitals are still the best bet.

It doesn’t make any sense at all. Nobody was abducted. They just took home their baby, or the baby they were told was theirs.

Stick it out. I've just finished and it was good.
Too close to home for me in many ways with my ex but it's worth watching the rest.

It’s one of the worst things I have ever watched. Terrible script and acting just such a waste of time. I am niggly with myself for watching it

Awful. I was really looking forward to it too!

Sounds awful @MrsSkylerWhite glad dh is recovering now

And @rainzen

Really ? You both don't like ?

I'm really enjoying

Wasn’t it awful? No idea why we watched all 4, we wouldn’t normally bother once we established what dross it was. There’s drama and there’s completely unbelievable nonsense. This was the latter.

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

I thought it was really good. Why are people so quit to just dismiss dramas these days, as shit, nonsense, rubbish, drivel, crap etc etc........? Same with Missing You that was on last week on Netflix. So many people just slated it and said it was shit.

So many people are jumping on and poo-pooing so many dramas lately. (Often within half an episode.) I really don't know what some people want. Just take them for what they are... Fictional TV Dramas. It's not that deep...

@MabelMora me too. Happy Valley was so powerful that it's hard to see him as nice. Although in Grantchester he was the perfect antidote to Tommy.

I only know James Norton from Nowhere Special

@SabreIsMyFave I agree that people are very critical of most tv now. I like to just enjoy things at face value. I ignore holes because it's not real life and it's entertainment.

I keep thinking Tommy Lee Royce wouldn’t put up with this bullshit from Miles 🤣🤣

Exactly what I thought - he would've murdered him by now!

I just thought it was boring! Very predictable.

That's such a lovely film, one of my favourites, although not the cheeriest obviously. JN was fantastic in it.

You've never seen happy valley @purpleme12

🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀

Watch it

3 series

You are in for a treat

One of the best shows ever !!!

I thought this episode was slightly better. It felt a bit slow moving at first but picked up. Miles's interfering is so out of control, I can't help wondering if he has influenced everything right from the day the babies were born. Could he have even bribed someone to fix the DNA results and the babies weren't swapped at all? I agree they look more like their alleged real parents, but that could just be lazy casting (consider Rooster in Top Gun 2 - there's no way he could have had brown hair and brown eyes unless Mav and Goose were such good friends they shared literally everything...) I notice Pete has quite fair eyebrows, he was probably fair as a kid too.

Nice to know who the drugs were really for.