CROSSFIRE - 9pm bbc 1 - Tue 20th , wed 21st, Thur 22nd - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

I'm surprised the husband survived all that.
It was a long drop to the floor.

It's okay. I was with you from the beginning.

The final episode! The world's least competent swat team who let Keely slip away and everyone else mingle willy nilly round the town. Everyone would be detained for their own safety and to find out if they were involved.

Why did Keely run off anyway? A normal person would tell the police and paramedics there was a badly injured man who needed their help? Why did she follow the boy with her shotgun? You just wouldn't.

Why did the doctor blithely let her husband go off to find the kids? "No, you haven't got to find someone else's kids, mate. Your place is with me on this sodding bus listening to how I saved someone's life with the nozzle of a piping bag while being held at gunpoint while you were off losing sight of two eight-year-olds because you were helping a woman who was scared to climb down an 18 inch wall.."

Mind you I can believe he lost sight of a couple of kids. My dad let go of my pram to help a woman do something totally trivial because he was terminally nice. I careered off down the hill and my pram was grabbed by someone else (he probably abandoned his own children to be a sodding knight in shining armour too.) Obviously I was too young to remember but my mum never let my dad forget it.

And why was Abi so understanding about it? I admit I can be a bit judgemental but if I found out my husband and father of my three kids dragged us on holiday so he could make cow eyes at the cow I thought was my friend I wouldn't be sitting her down in my nice home (I hope the mortgage was covered by the slimy bastard's life insurance) and telling her she deserved a medal.

If I was Jason having to be helped to go to the toilet by my cheating wife I'd be asking for a home help too.

Very well said! I thought it was dire - complete and utter shite. It was promising to start with - the initial shootings were very shocking but after that, bloody hell.

I have to say I don't get the love for Keeley Hawes. I saw her in Midwich Cuckoos and felt pretty much as I do now. She is fairly expressionless, speaks in a sort of loud whisper much of the time. I didn't get any emotion whatsoever from her. No passion (in relation to the affair partner), no real sense of fear throughout the whole thing, nothing at all, just all very blah.

I rolled my eyes so many times throughout but still watched til the end. Honestly, her friends reactions to the (not quite) affair was so ridiculously underplayed. it's like most of the cast were just going through the motions, knowing they were boring their audience rigid and not really caring.

I know I'm being harsh but it's just the sort of drama I usually quite enjoy but it will remain in my head as one of the worst I've seen.

Well , I guess we're to assume at the end that life now goes on as usual . 😏

Did I miss why she and her first husband [partner ?] split up, or wasn't that explained .

"Your place is with me on this sodding bus listening to how I saved someone's life with the nozzle of a piping bag..."

😄

Could've been done in two episodes. They just seemed to creep about the hotel for hours and hours, can't believe it would take that long for police to turn up. And after the two gunmen were shot everyone just went that's ok then let's all wander about when really they wouldn't have had a clue how many baddies there were and whether they were still in danger. Good idea for drama but I spent too much time going "really???"

Her husband was awful - the comments about her job, her being part time etc. I'm not sure if he had reason to be then, ie if he knew something was going on.
His voicemail was never heard, I hope, I'd be incandescent if my best friend had an affair with my spouse but I don't think I'd wish that either of them were short dead. In fact I know I wouldn't.

So of the 3 female friends, two of them lost their husbands and the cheater didn't.
Bitches do better, sadly.

Jo's husband's cowardice, hiding in the shower and sexting guy dying so the boys could escape.

I will admit that it was a bit daft towards the end - surely the whole of the nearby village would be on tenterhooks - they presumably had loved ones working there.
The two children calmly playing while the woman hung out her washing as if nothing of any consequence had happened nearby, as her neighbours looked on. 🙄

Still thought it was good though.

I don't think her husband reacted to the texts on her phone normally . Surely anyone would deal with that later fgs , his children and other friends were out there and everyone was being shot at 😳

The nearby village would be on tenterhooks - they presumably had loved ones working there. The two children calmly playing while the woman hung out her washing as if nothing of any consequence had happened nearby, as her neighbours looked on.

@LadyEloise1 Exactly. That hotel would have been a huge local employer. Whenever these terrible things happen there are always local people with kids at the school or loved ones working in the shopping centre desperately waiting at the police cordon.

Just watched all 3. Found the whole thing unrealistic and Amara really irritating.

I just finished this and enjoyed it.

Thanks for the thread @Blondeshavemorefun

i name change a lot but have asked for your advice for my DS (now 15 months) who doesn't sleep

I don't expect all my entertainment to be totally realistic and credible, but I was so annoyed at the unrealisticness(?) of Jo going after that staff member who had given the gunmen the key. At that point, his crimes were fairly minimal. She wasn't police - not even British police, let alone Spanish - so it wasn't her call to go after someone with a shotgun and try and detain them, causing someone's death in the pricess. She should have stayed with Mateo.
Stupid.

I enjoyed the first episode...

Who did Amara find dead/dying when the gunman found her?

When she kept prattling on & he was telling her to shh, did anyone else hope think that he was going to shoot her?

Did we find out why Jo left the police?

When Jason was being nasty, did he mention that she had had an affair?

When Jason was being nasty yes he said she had had an affair.

I wish I'd never started this. Rubbish.

I fast forwarded most of this and had not interest in the back story. Was just hoping no kids got shot.

finished last night. That was awful.
they are producing so much TV of this genre with good and well known actors but it is rubbish. don’t understand why they agree to be in it

I've watched it all bar the last 15-20 minutes. They're all back home etc. and just sorting themselves out from the fallout of the deaths and affairs. I really don't care.
Is there an interesting twist/development near the end that's worth hanging on for, or should I just not bother?

Don’t bother