MISSED CALL - mon 13 to fri 17th - ch 5 -9pm - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

[Blondeshavemorefun]

NEW five part drama starting next week and on Monday to Friday

It is set in a French village called Saint Michael - Joanna Scanlon Plays single mother Sarah, who received a late night call from her teen daughter Katie who then vanishes on a school exchange

When a frantic Sarah arrived in France, she is shocked at the indifference towards her daughter Katie ‘s disappearance

Rupert Graves plays Jason who drove the exchange students to France

Robert lindsy is a mysterious X expat Andrew

Lieutenant Virginia Taylor, is a local detective who makes it her mission to help Sarah find Katie

Agree

The way mum looked at the dad

Not rating this too highly so far.

Why did the teacher switch off his school phone?! And what’s he popping?

I’m quite enjoying 😀 if you ignore the usual ch5 holes 😂

So boyfriend/bus driver is in cahoots with the teacher about something

I know what you mean...I'll b watching next episode as it's easy watching

Yes - easy watching. Has almost Death in Paradise vibes in that it’s a mystery but not psychologically taxing. I like it. And I like the actress who plays mum and the actor who plays her boyfriend

Yes i like them too

I look similar to the mum so I am enjoying watching an average curvy woman having a main role 🙈

eta that sounds awful! Hope you know what I mean!

Ben and Katie made a signal to each other just before getting on the bus too - can’t remember which one but one of them made the 👌 sign

So the host family wasn’t meant to have Katie but her friend - and swapped.

why

the cleaner by the graffiti looked suspicious as well

Ooh

Looking forward to next episode. Apart from the mum it seems they are all bloody involved!

<deep breath> I’m not binging this one. Going to watch it each night

Caroline obviously seemed dodgy AF, but her husband seemed nice. Until that phone-call scene! I suspect that is something separate from whatever is going on between Rupert Graves and the teacher.

Yes no binging

normally ch5 you can’t binge so not sure why showing them now

Some stuff I have to binge or I will lose the thread if what’s going on! But there is so much other stuff on tv this week that I can’t binge all this 😂

Urgh...usual Ch 5 rubbish, but was prepared for that, clunky script, implausible storyline...why is Caroline being so monumentally gaslit by everyone, it seems, apart from in the last 5 minutes, the female french detective who did seem to finally take her seriously?
Why isn't she saying, " This is out of character, for my daughter...both her behaviour, and the middle of the night text, AND the lack of communication. I've travelled to France!"?

I wonder whether it's relying on lazy tropes of the French "laissez-faire" sterotype.
What has happened to safeguarding students on a school trip...?

I'm taking this far too seriously, aren't I?
My DH always says I can't suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy a programme!
But I find lazy plotlines and implausible scenarios so frustrating. I don't know, I should know better than to expect more from a Ch 5 drama.

Oh, and all the French accents, when speaking English, sound as if they've learnt English in America! Not authentic.
Katie's friend, ( Lucy?) can't act, I'm afraid.
Agree the close-ups of the female cleaner are significant.

Beautiful scenery though. I'm enjoying that.

My guess is that there is something going on with the bus driver boyfriend ( Rupert Graves) and the teacher, and that Katie has been drugged and groomed for money, as there was a brief scene with someone saying " that's a good price for the English girl , take it", or something like that.

I've always liked Joanna Scanlon, to my mind, she was never better than when she was in "Getting On", with Jo Brand, Vicky Pepardine and Peter Capaldi, @2010-2012 now, but was soooo good!

Caroline is the rich host, Sarah is the Mum (Joanna Scanlon).

What was the package handed over to the boyfriend at the start? Dodgy?
Why don’t the host parents seem to care that a child staying at their house didn’t sleep there? I’d be so anxious about caring for a foreign child!

Same

Tho again if the swapped and wanted her and are in on it …….

My guess is drugs, or some such dodgy substance in that wee box that went from the transit van into the coach - placed there by boyfriend/driver - though, it didn't seem a very big package for drugs (not that I've ever engaged in drug smuggling). Or, money?
My guess, as usual, based on bugger all, is that daughter has been abducted as revenge/leverage purposes, on boyfriend/bus driver for something he did/didn't do for some dodgy gang he's got himself embroiled with who are engaged in drug/people smuggling.

This was my immediate thought but I feel it’s looking more like a dodgy town than a dodgy boyfriend now. But that could be the trick!

Yes, everyone suspicious except poor Sarah. I would have thought there would be more than one teacher on a school exchange trip too.

And who was the coach driver boyfriend in the hotel room with? He closed the bathroom door as someone was in the shower