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Post by geometryman on Mar 14, 2019 23:41:11 GMT
Well, I've really enjoyed this series. There's probably something wrong with me, but I felt even more sorry for Rose by the end. She was the star for me and I found her a more interesting character than Leah and family - well cast and well acted by Molly Windsor imo. Yes she turned out an awful person, but there were reasons for that. I liked the "Bonnie and Clyde" (with role reversal) relationship with Burn Gorman's college porter, though quite how she got him to do her bidding was a bit of a mystery. He was on another little mission for her at the end...
I'd like a second series, but apparently ITV have stamped firmly on the idea and said there's no chance of one - it was always going to be a one-off and that's that.
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Post by marion on Mar 15, 2019 7:03:52 GMT
I very much enjoyed this too and thought it was well acted all round. I had no sympathy whatsoever for Rose!!! I mean plenty of people have difficult childhoods without becoming scheming maniacs like her, don't they? Perhaps I am just less charitable than most! The relationship with the porter was odd wasn't it? I wondered how she managed to ensnare him but guessed she just sensed the need in him and exploited it, although I didn't think she had slept with him to achieve this. The ending surprised me as I thought - I'll use a spoiler in case anyone has yet to watch their recording... {SPOILER:Click to Show}They would have Leah coming in to find him still just about alive after Rose stabbed him and she then finished him off.
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Post by vicky on Mar 15, 2019 11:03:09 GMT
Rose was undoubtedly a psychopath but her state of mind wasn't helped by the terrible things her mother's husband and Adam said to her. I think an awful lot of people might snap (although not to the extebt of committing murder I would hope!) if told it was no wonder your mother committed suicide considering she gave birth
to a monster like you. Guaranteed to inflame an already bad situation I think.
The porter was in love with her....at one stage he asked her if she still loved him...and, being an inadequate character, would do anything she asked him to. I thought the final act was going to have a different victim though.
Cheat has been really good; well plotted, well written and, especially by Molly Windsor, well acted. What amazing eyes she has!
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Post by Geoffers on Mar 15, 2019 13:29:32 GMT
Last night's finale rankled with me, some of the police procedure was just badly done,to the point where an officer goes into her room,magically finds a box in a drawer, opens box, finds 2 rings then leaves box on table.
Then Rose meets her "father" in a cafe where she confesses all and he is wired for sound, that just would not happen.
And why in the lecture hall where Rose and Leah, the two main suspects were free ,no bail conditions until again police turn up to arrest one.
And no-one gets charged in a room like that it is done in the presence of a Sergeant at a desk not as a just 'by the way' l am charging you.
Up till then it was a good series but part 4 was stretching credibility.
Oh and l suppose there is a body in the woods to be found.
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Post by beverley61 on Mar 15, 2019 15:11:01 GMT
I just get fed up of characters not having normal conversations about things that have/are going on - it's just not normal.
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Post by Netz on Mar 23, 2019 11:36:09 GMT
I binge-watched this last night and enjoyed it. I like it when a series is only several episodes long and a one-off, spread out over consecutive nights - not so much of a commitment, plus your mind's still fresh about what's gone on. When the father opened the door at the end, I wondered whether... ...it was going to be a man who was there to read the gas meter! (Yeah, I've been binge-watching Baptiste too this week.  ) |
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Post by geometryman on Mar 23, 2019 13:56:09 GMT
When you think of it, that meter reading ploy could fail in so many ways.
"I've come to read the gas meter."
- "There isn't one. We're all electric here."
- "It's a smart meter and transmits directly to the power company. You don't need to read it."
- "It's a coin operated pay-as-you-go meter. Nothing to read."
- "It's on the outside wall. You're standing beside it."
- "Someone came and read it only yesterday. Go away."
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Post by geometryman on May 20, 2021 8:30:35 GMT
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Anymore to come?
