Broadchurch

It is good, and I'm still none the wiser as to who it could be. There are so many clues implicating lots of people. I don't think it's the garage guy, Lenny Henry or Charlie Higsons characters as it's be too obvious.
I think the owner of the manor house has more to do with this, like I said on a previous post, I've seen him in a few tv shows over the years so he's not a nobody actor, but he was very under used so I think they'll be more to come from him. And the sock that was found looked like it was from the football team, and it looks like a team of young guys like the people looking at mobile phones and asking to see Hardy's daughter! So could Ellie's son have more to hide than porn on his phone.

...I never thought I'd say this but I wish predictive text would not change 'porn on his phone' to 'pork on his phone'!...I was going to say something, but I'll leave it!😳

Blimey Geometryman, are you sure you don't work with DI Hardy?!🤔😉 You're proper clued up, I never thought that about the rope. I might need to have a marathon session and rewatch it. I've heard some people watch it twice, back to back as there's so much going on in an episode and so many clues and misdirections you need to see it more than once.
I think anyone that's too obvious it won't be as there's 3 episodes left, they won't want to give it away before the end.

Wow, that is impressive. It sounds too technical for me...but then, I was never very good at geometry either!

That does sound pretty technical! I always record programmes on commercial channels in order to avoid the ads, and often rewatch an episode, but simply fast forward till I reach the part I want. I usually keep all episodes of a series like Broadchurch in order to check earlier episodes if necessary.

As to whodunnit, I agree it's unlikely to be Aaron the convicted rapist, though his lying about catching mackerel is odd – what was he up to that night? I also think Lucas the taxi driver is being pushed at us too much and too soon for it to have been him, though there is that unaccounted for period when he wasn't where he said he was ...

Very curious to see where the Mark Latimer / Joe Miller story is heading. I do hope Mark isn't going to do something stupid. He's not a bad man, just a man obsessed and unable to move on.

Hardy's date was quickly dropped, wasn't it? I wonder what that was for, if it isn't part of the story. To show us he's trying to make a life in Broadchurch?

Oh Mark! Well... At least Beth won't have to worry about divorce costs But what happened to Joe?

Elsewhere the thick plottens. I think Ed's probably in the clear, now, because he's become too obvious. What is it on Trish's computer that's so vital? I assume Leo was going to clean its memory, but unless Ian has found someone else to do it properly the police forensics should be able to recover whatever he was trying to hide. Ho hum.

EDIT: Oh dear, I've just thought of another possible link to Paul: although there's been no link between Paul and the rape case characters as yet, Ian is a teacher and Paul helps (or used to help) with IT stuff at the school.  Could he have helped Ian out?

At the beginning, when Mark and Dan are together, I thought Dan looked a lot older than 11. Or was he dreaming about what might have been?

Yes, the final dream sequence of Mark and Danny in the boat showed an older Danny as well. I took it that Mark really was on the clifftop – a throwback to the image of Danny on the clifftop that we were repeatedly shown in series 1 – and the scene in the boat was a dream. I imagine we'll find out next week when his body is discovered, unless Chloe raises the alarm in time which seems unlikely (and in dramatic terms it would be better for Mark's story to end here). Terribly poignant, and beautifully played out, as was the scene with Joe. Two broken men with nothing to live for. No happy endings for either family, I fear.

The stuff on Ian's computer is sufficiently vague for us not to know if the police will be able to recover it, isn't it? If it was downloaded from the internet then I think they would be able to recover it, but if it was loaded on from a USB stick, say, then I think it could be completely cleared out, though if it was that simple he could have done it himself without all the cloak and dagger stuff with Leo the twine merchant. I'm assuming it's something that has been locally created / filmed, hence Ellie wanting to know where Tom got it from (if it's the same thing).

And yet more blue twine, this time round the veg – it's all over the place in Broadchurch!