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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Jul 23, 2020 7:09:24 GMT
The Deceived will premiere on Channel 5 on Monday August 3rd at 9pm.
The Deceived is described as having as “sinister narrative of lust, manipulation and betrayal”. It follows English student Ophelia, who falls in love with her married lecturer, seeing in him all the answers to her needs. When their affair results in a shocking and tragic death, Ophelia finds herself trapped in a world where she can no longer trust her own mind.
The four-part drama stars Emily Reid (Belgravia), Emmett J. Scanlan (The Fall), Catherine Walker (Versailles). Eleanor Methven (Little Women), Ian McElhinney (The Fall), Shelley Conn (Liar) and Dempsey Bovell (Patrick Melrose).
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Post by Miranda on Jul 23, 2020 12:19:01 GMT
Well that sounds fun!
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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Jul 23, 2020 12:34:49 GMT
Innit.
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Post by geometryman on Jul 23, 2020 22:36:40 GMT
I wasn't aware of this. Just watched the trailer and I notice Paul Mescal (from 'Normal People') is in it too. It's written by Lisa McGee, who created the fabulous comedy 'Derry Girls', but this could hardly be further from a comedy by the look of it. I'll give it a whirl.
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Post by sootycat on Aug 4, 2020 10:56:52 GMT
This is certainly no comedy that's for sure, but there is enough in it for me to watch the next episode.
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Post by geometryman on Aug 4, 2020 18:36:13 GMT
It's an interesting mystery. My theory at the moment is that Ophelia saw the living Roisin, not her ghost - because she didn't die in the fire, that was someone else. Sean said he was the one that found "what was left of" her body, so there's a suggestion that it was too badly burned to be recognisable. Also the cause of the fire was said to be a lighted cigarette - we don't know if Roisin was a smoker, but there was an implication she wasn't, when Callaghan confirmed to Ophelia that yes, she allowed him to smoke.
If I were in Ophelia's shoes, I wouldn't trust Callaghan any further than I could throw him! - I don't believe a word he says.
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Post by vicky on Aug 5, 2020 21:05:57 GMT
Don't trust a man who never speaks above a whisper I have to have the subtitles on to understand most of what he says.
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Post by sootycat on Aug 6, 2020 11:08:05 GMT
OMG, this is getting so creepy.
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Post by vicky on Aug 7, 2020 6:32:25 GMT
All a bit far fetched and melodramatic. By the end I thought they were all a group horrible of people.
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Post by geometryman on Aug 7, 2020 9:53:05 GMT
Yes, and getting more so as it went along. People seemed to flit easily back and forth between Cambridge and Ireland at the drop of a hat, and often I had difficulty establishing where each scene was set before it moved on to the next one. I got increasingly disenchanted but somehow it held my attention - I think my verdict would be: worth watching, just.
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Post by marion on Aug 19, 2020 19:56:27 GMT
Well I didn't really care what happened to any of them. I thought it was a very odd kettle of fish. At one point I thought we were going into Rosemary's Baby territory!
I fail to see why any of them would want to have sex with a sleaze bag like Michael. And at times he looked disconcertingly like Spencer Matthews from Made In Chelsea in his heavy drinking days. And as for Ophelia, my god. What a whingeing snowflake she was, ghastly. I only really liked Ruth and Annabelle's brother! The best scene was the very last one I thought.
If they blamed it all on Michael, why did Roisin have to leave? Couldn't they have said he kept her there under duress? Made her mother support him because of his threatening behaviour? I can't say I got to grips with their reasoning but I am a bit tired!
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