Broadchurch

[TheOstrich]

For me one of the most interesting things about Spiral, Borgen etc. being shown as two-parters was being able to see how the episodes developed and flowed straight away.

I get quite irritated with all this "Next week", "Last week" stuff. I don't want to know, and I am not a goldfish... I can remember what I saw.

Interesting viewpoint, WM .... we though the last series of Lewis was spoilt by showing them in two hour-long episodes, a week apart, rather than a single self-contained 2-hourly slot. And the Next Week slot revealed far too much.

[Kaz]

We felt the same about Lewis Ossie. In fact we recorded the last few so that we could watch them in the old format!

[Fugitive]

Slow and boring isn't it? The scenery is more animated than the acting

[debih]

Slow and boring isn't it? The scenery is more animated than the acting

Oh no. I'm really enjoying it. Apart from Dr Who and his moody acting.

Has anyone got any theories yet?

SPOILER ALERT








I don't think the dad did it - I think that the boys blood in the summer house thing and the dads fingerprint are just a coincidence - I think the dad is having an affair with someone (the woman from the hotel) and the son found out and the dad hit him and thats how his blood got on the door frame - completely unconnected with his murder. I don't think the vicar did it either, or the man from the newsagents - too obvious. Or Pauline Quirk - seeing the skateboard so early on in her cupboard means that it isn't her (in the logically world of Debih).

And I don't think the man that the newsagent saw him arguing with was the postman. You saw someone with a red van - but I didn't notice any post office markings on it - and a high vis jacket but when they interviewed the postman he wasn't wearing one then. The phone installation man has dark hair - maybe it was him.

I think the woman detectives son was involved and was out with him that night, although I suppose they would have picked that up on the CCT cameras by now.

[Fugitive]

I'm really trying to like it Debih because I know all the locations apart from the Bristol ones. David Tennant should audition to play Ratty in The Wind in the Willows with his little pointy face and starey eyes he wouldn't need any make-up

Yes to all your spoiler things

[Ally]

Slow and boring isn't it? The scenery is more animated than the acting

Oh no. I'm really enjoying it. Apart from Dr Who and his moody acting.

Has anyone got any theories yet?

SPOILER ALERT








I don't think the dad did it - I think that the boys blood in the summer house thing and the dads fingerprint are just a coincidence - I think the dad is having an affair with someone (the woman from the hotel) and the son found out and the dad hit him and thats how his blood got on the door frame - completely unconnected with his murder. I don't think the vicar did it either, or the man from the newsagents - too obvious. Or Pauline Quirk - seeing the skateboard so early on in her cupboard means that it isn't her (in the logically world of Debih).

And I don't think the man that the newsagent saw him arguing with was the postman. You saw someone with a red van - but I didn't notice any post office markings on it - and a high vis jacket but when they interviewed the postman he wasn't wearing one then. The phone installation man has dark hair - maybe it was him.

I think the woman detectives son was involved and was out with him that night, although I suppose they would have picked that up on the CCT cameras by now.

Debih Matlock-Marple.

[Diflower]

Yes to everything you said Debih, and the phone man is a bit suss isn't he. Although he could have had 'messages' he looked at the picture before...
I'm still enjoying it, but 8 parts is a lot!

[debih]

I didn't realise it was 8 parts.

Talk about dragging it out!

[Workingman]

I think that it is still building characters' backgrounds to produce a mix of possibilities. Nobody is 'it' and nobody is 'in the clear'. The friction between Dr Who and his deputy is a distraction, imo, even though he has skeletons.

I am thinking that we have not seen the murderer yet, or if we have it is only as a minor character.

[Paddypix]

I'm enjoying it, but then I'd watch David Tennant reading the phone book. Likewise Olivia Colman.