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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2018 23:53:39 GMT
Sort of given up . . . half watched or rather half listened. Difficult to follow a programme with subtitles when doing something else so it's me rather than the programme. Find it a bit too complicated. I need easy telly whilst working.
I did notice tonight that Jonah was surprised that the gunshot had been edited out. Commonsense that he should have made another recording or let someone else hear it . . or did he? I might well have missed it.
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Post by vicky on Sept 18, 2018 6:22:37 GMT
Agree about it being complicated. I am trusting that all these different strands and characters will gradually come together and everything will become clearer as the weeks progress!
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Post by marion on Sept 18, 2018 7:54:25 GMT
I thought the big clue was rather obscure! He doesn't live there so wouldn't get the joke, with his fear of flying he might not even get to Hong Kong to find out it was a local joke. He would need to play it to someone in the know to find out that he needs to break in to a restaurant! And the police heard it but don't seem to have made the connection.
I agree what an idiot for giving them his phone (the phone he was so desperate for.last week) rather than a recording.
I quite enjoyed the Emilia Fox stuff.
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Post by technicolour on Sept 18, 2018 8:09:02 GMT
Didn't her message say to 'ask her' about it? He assumes 'her' is the daughter.
But that phone! Not only does he hand it to the police without a copy, but then hands it to the daughter, who he doesn't know if he can trust. She could easily have pressed 2 to delete! Plonker. |
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Post by sootycat on Sept 18, 2018 11:40:28 GMT
Not too bright is he!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2018 11:56:37 GMT
I’m not sure how bright I’d be in a place like that,on my own,knowing no one and having just lost my wife. He’s in a state of shock and not thinking clearly.
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Post by geometryman on Sept 18, 2018 22:44:32 GMT
No, not really. She said "Meet her, and you'll understand" having just said the last thing she wanted to do was hurt him. I thought she was just talking about having a daughter he was unaware of. Also I got the impression the daughter didn't know anything about the rooms above the rather derelict cafe - they seemed as much a surprise to her as to him, presumably a secret "bolt hole".
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Post by vicky on Sept 25, 2018 6:32:44 GMT
I think I'm going to give up on this. The story seems very convoluted and slow to develop and I can't warm to any of the characters so I really don't care what happens to any of them. I think Jonah is particularly annoying.
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Post by marion on Sept 25, 2018 10:43:37 GMT
Personally I find the Chinese husband an odd choice. Monosyllabic and boring! Jonah is annoying, but then he is in a pretty rubbish situation. I shall watch to see how it pans out, but I don't much care about any of them now.
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Post by linseed on Sept 25, 2018 18:28:35 GMT
I did give up on this - last Monday I missed it and did not record it due to various circumstances outside my control. Then I just never caught up, and realised I wasn’t that bothered about it. Will read this thread to see what happens in the end.
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Post by sootycat on Oct 3, 2018 11:50:54 GMT
I don't know what it is about this but I can't find myself giving a stuff about any of the characters, and dare I say it, I tend to be bored by a lot of it.
Having watched stuff by the same people (The Missing and Liar etc) and being gripped by them I am disappointed really
I shall stick with it to the end though
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Post by marion on Oct 3, 2018 16:16:15 GMT
It's odd, isn't it? I mean this week we had a relocation to Macau, the daughter getting that bank account (which for one moment I feared she had emptied and had the cash in her backpack which she just dumped in the bar) and a bit of a triad connection, but it still hasn't caught fire. I blame David Chen for a lot of it as he is very flat. It didn't help that the triad business is not sex and drugs but the fish market.
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Post by vicky on Oct 3, 2018 18:37:30 GMT
I just didn't bother with it this week as I too found it boring. Given the cast and the location that shouldn't have been.
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Post by geometryman on Oct 3, 2018 23:01:38 GMT
I keep watching but it's rather disappointing. The cast aren't doing as well as you might have expected, and I think the script and direction have to take some of the blame.
Jonah, with his fear of flying, you would expect to have virtually no experience of foreign travel, but I'm constantly amazed at the ease with which he buzzes his way around Hong Kong (and now Macau), following/tracking/finding/communicating with people. It wasn't even that easy under British administration before 1997.
Katie Leung was in some Harry Potter films, which I'm not familiar with, but I did see her in the 'One Child' mini series and thought she was a lot better in that than the sullen teenager she mostly is in this production. And I'm not much impressed by Emilia Fox either.
Although I agree David Chen is excessively deadpan, and rather too taciturn (I can understand someone in his position not wanting to give much away, but he could give us something!) I actually find the character not unconvincing - so far anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2018 10:42:18 GMT
This is so convoluted that I don’t have a clue what’s going on and I’m finding it hard to care. David Chen makes a block of wood look like a good actor.
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