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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 23, 2018 21:21:12 GMT
Oh well. We'll have to be satisfied with reincarnation on Corfu.
How good was that? Absobloominlootly loved it.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 23, 2018 21:25:43 GMT
There are still many loose ends.
There were some great moments - but I still have lots of questions. Particularly regarding the Home Office and Security Services.
I think we are heading for season 2.
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Post by david on Sept 23, 2018 21:26:01 GMT
A great episode and a great piece of tv drama on the BBC. Well done to everyone involved. It’s been an absolute rollercoaster show of emotion over the last 6 weeks. One of the best tv shows in 2018 in my opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2018 21:30:42 GMT
I think it went downhill really badly in the last couple of episodes. I mean, it was fun (ish) but what a load of old cobblers, really. And so many people raving on twitter about Richard Madden's amazing acting. I just don't get it I'm afraid. He had one frowny stone face expression for what - five hours? - with 20 seconds of tears and smiling at the very end. I feel as though I've wasted my time watching this to be honest, and I feel a bit let down after the excitement of the first couple of episodes.
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 23, 2018 21:35:25 GMT
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Post by crowblack on Sept 23, 2018 22:34:29 GMT
I didn't bother with the middle, switched on the last episode, was expecting a 24-style nailbiter and instead got some people standing around on a patch of muddy grass for ages and then the same 'twist' that Agatha Christie uses damn near every time.
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Post by Stephen on Sept 23, 2018 23:13:22 GMT
I enjoyed that. I thought it was considerably less silly than the middle episodes and the ending satisfied me, if not everyone.
Vicky climbed up and down that wall very quickly with that rope didn't she? That was very realistic...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2018 8:03:19 GMT
Well I just loved it. Yes, it was silly and OTT at times and the ending left me with a few more questions but on the whole I just thought it was sensationally good TV.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2018 8:11:35 GMT
You know what, sometimes I don't need an accurate portrayal of counter terrorism that paints an accurate picture of MI5 (spoiler alert that's actually just a lot of people staring at computers all day). Or one that realistically depicts politicians (lord knows you couldn't dream up what the real lot currently get up to).
SOMETIMES, just SOMETIMES I want a bit of exciting telly with some badass women (yes Gina) and some pretty man-candy. And well call me low brow but I bloomin' loved this.
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Post by karloscar on Sept 24, 2018 10:13:22 GMT
Well season 2 will need a new leading man. If David Budd has regained his family and his sanity, he'll never go near the rest of those characters ever again.....Unless....
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 24, 2018 13:07:15 GMT
1-3 good 4-5 boring 6 ridiculous
Some questionable acting too. Nina Toussaint White did the same reaction face every time she was on camera. She barely had a proper line in the script, we just kept getting her reaction face, which was frankly a bit gormless.
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Post by wickedgrin on Sept 24, 2018 20:00:03 GMT
I think that Keeley Hawes "leaving" the series after episode 3 meant that the rest of the series wasn't as riveting. She is a very "watchable" actress and once she'd left he had no-one to body guard and he had to carry the remaining episodes alone.
Enjoyed it though and good to hear it was so popular as this will encourage channels to make more drama and less reality TV!
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Post by n1david on Sept 24, 2018 20:40:42 GMT
I hoped halfway through that they might do what Homeland S1 failed to do and kill off another major character in the closing episode. I thought it might have been audacious to have killed off both the Home Sec and her bodyguard by the end of the series meaning that there would be no S2. But that didn’t happen. Enjoyed it nonetheless.
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Post by crowblack on Sept 25, 2018 8:58:35 GMT
what Homeland S1 failed to do I thought that too - Homeland was a far better series, but that last episode felt like a cop out. Looking at Twitter, quite a few people seem a bit disappointed the car didn't blow up at the end: the getting back with wife bit was so cheesy I think viewers were expecting another twist, but I don't think the BBC would kill kids on a Sunday evening. I hope the 'not announcing that there'll be more until after the ending' thing will be something the BBC stick to - they ruined a Peaky Blinders episode 5 cliffhanger by announcing a new series before the last episode had gone out - but cheesed off they're commissioning 4 more series of this when they have badly scheduled and then cancelled several superb, inventive, original TV series recently: The Hour, Dickensian, Mapp and Lucia, The Living and the Dead, Ripper Street (picked up by Amazon), The Last Kingdom (picked up by Netflix)...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2018 19:36:26 GMT
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Post by david on Sept 25, 2018 19:59:02 GMT
My guess is that she isn’t really dead. It’s just some elaborate witness protection programme as she has been seen alive and well in Corfu pretending to be some 1930s mother. She’ll make a reappearance like Bobby Ewing in the famous shower scene in Dallas for the second series.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 25, 2018 20:46:37 GMT
Ok, ok, I'll stop soon, promise! Please do, no more links to the scum
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 25, 2018 20:59:43 GMT
alive and well in Corfu pretending to be some 1930s mother. Am I the only one who's a teeny bit scared they'll splatter her brains against Spiro's windscreen round about episode 4? Please do, no more links to the scum Oh! But I like a well-rounded edercashun I do.
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Post by david on Sept 25, 2018 21:06:31 GMT
alive and well in Corfu pretending to be some 1930s mother. Am I the only one who's a teeny bit scared they'll splatter her brains against Spiro's windscreen round about episode 4? It wouldn’t surprise me if Spiro is actually revealed to be a UK Government agent who is going to kill her. It would certainly make for an interesting series of the Durrells.
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Post by lynette on Sept 26, 2018 14:29:46 GMT
My guess is that she isn’t really dead. It’s just some elaborate witness protection programme as she has been seen alive and well in Corfu pretending to be some 1930s mother. She’ll make a reappearance like Bobby Ewing in the famous shower scene in Dallas for the second series. Allison Pearson in The Telegraph ( amazing a tv prog gets such media coverage) says it is a mistake to kill off your best character and we lost the sexy bits.. I agree. Same happened in Downton with one of the girls and then whatsiname. I know they left cos they wanted to do other stuff but it was a mistake to let them.
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Post by david on Sept 26, 2018 17:03:29 GMT
My guess is that she isn’t really dead. It’s just some elaborate witness protection programme as she has been seen alive and well in Corfu pretending to be some 1930s mother. She’ll make a reappearance like Bobby Ewing in the famous shower scene in Dallas for the second series. Allison Pearson in The Telegraph ( amazing a tv prog gets such media coverage) says it is a mistake to kill off your best character and we lost the sexy bits.. I agree. Same happened in Downton with one of the girls and then whatsiname. I know they left cos they wanted to do other stuff but it was a mistake to let them. Totally agree with you Lynette. There was some great on screen chemistry between the two leads which I would liked to of seen more of. It will be interesting to see how series 2 pans out. Do you continue the story from part 1 as there appeared to be a few loose ends with some of the characters or do you go down the road of a complete new set of characters with a brand new story? I’m certainly keen to find out. Hopefully it will be just as enjoyable (even with all the plot holes in it) as series 1.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 26, 2018 17:17:05 GMT
alive and well in Corfu pretending to be some 1930s mother. Am I the only one who's a teeny bit scared they'll splatter her brains against Spiro's windscreen round about episode 4? Please do, no more links to the scum Oh! But I like a well-rounded edercashun I do. What is edercashun? Googled, just brought me make to this page!!??
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 26, 2018 17:22:11 GMT
What is edercashun? Googled, just brought me make to this page!!?? It's wot you get at skoowel innit?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 26, 2018 17:28:33 GMT
What is edercashun? Googled, just brought me make to this page!!?? It's wot you get at skoowel innit? I'm still none the wiser?
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