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Post by marion on Mar 21, 2019 20:54:39 GMT
The critic in the 'i' uses the term 'knee trembler' too... that isn't what it used to mean in the distant past (ie when I was young) - or did it, and I didn't know?  I think it is the usual meaning and it has been around for many years. It probably isn't commonly used by young folk these days though. |
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Post by sleepyp on Mar 21, 2019 21:15:06 GMT
Oh well, further proof that I've had a sheltered life  |
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Post by diziet sma on Mar 21, 2019 22:45:21 GMT
I think it's a Tupenny Upright - but free.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2019 8:35:41 GMT
I recorded and watched this first episode but doubt I'll watch any further. None of the characters has any redeeming, likeable feature and you have to engage with at least one to care about them and their "lives".
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Post by beverley61 on Mar 22, 2019 12:23:35 GMT
Some of the critics compared it to Broadchurch. I have to disagree. The "hero" of this drama is a bent copper tampering with evidence, and thoroughly unpleasant to boot. Her daughter appears to be equally nasty. If the DS had come clean to her DI straight away, I'd have a better opinion of her. On top of everything else, she snarls at her kids and her junior officer, just because she's got a hangover. I'll give it one more week to "grab" me, but when you don't like the main character in a drama, it's difficult to engage with it. Hardy and Miller in Broadchurch each had their flaws, so I don't expect perfection, and I'm quite partial to flawed heroes, but cowardly dishonest coppers do nowt for me. I see the similarities with Broadchurch, the cheating dad, pregnant mum, body on the beach, but for me this is a very inferior production. I felt the same, if the main premise is that she has lied about something she could have told her DI and got it cleared up in one conversation, there's not much more to hold the thing together. Police Officers must have to disclose that they know people (even in the Biblical sense) throughout their careers. I always used to tell Sister if someone I knew came into the STI Clinic, usually it was just someone you'd gone to school with or knew via friends but you told someone and opted out of their care, not telling someone could get you into trouble, because confidentiality is paramount. Simple. |
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Post by diziet sma on Mar 22, 2019 20:14:12 GMT
Daft mistakes take you out of the drama don't they?
I suppose in this case you just have go with the FLO.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 0:46:57 GMT
If it had been my choice I would have turned over after the first few minutes. Deeply unlikable characters especially the female DS who was unbelievably nasty and dismissive of her daughter.
Won't waste time watching it again.
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Post by vicky on Mar 28, 2019 15:47:29 GMT
Did no-one else bother with this last night? When the Morven Christie character (Lisa?) was interviewing Sean's drinking companions from the night in question I kept expecting at least one of them to recognise her and say she was the woman he was chatting up at the bar and then left the pub with.....but no, not a thing. In fact, nothing about that incident and her tampering with the cctv footage cropped up in the entire episode: it was as though none of it had happened. Very odd.
I'm still finding the whole lot of them deeply unlikable characters.
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Post by linseed on Mar 28, 2019 17:40:22 GMT
Yes I was expecting someone in the pub to have recognised her, especially if it was somewhere she went to frequently. However I am sticking with it.
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Post by vicky on Mar 28, 2019 18:39:09 GMT
Yes, I'm sticking with it because now I want to know how the story develops. Surely that incident in/outside the pub and what she did with the evidence must come back to haunt her?
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Post by geometryman on Mar 28, 2019 23:04:46 GMT
I think his mates never saw her - they'd already left him behind in that pub, and he was at the bar on his own by the time she was chatting him up.
I'm still watching. It's not exactly ground breaking, and now it looks like her own badly behaved teenage kids (another cliche) are becoming more prominent, but I'm still finding it OK.
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Post by cakewalk on Mar 28, 2019 23:20:50 GMT
I'm still watching ... and yes, I agree with GM, I didn't think his friends noticed Lisa.
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Post by marion on Mar 29, 2019 16:40:44 GMT
Just caught up and quite enjoying it. But I have forgotten how the bratty daughter knows the chap she was in the car with. Some punishment, suspension! No school and you get to drive around town with a bloke you fancy. And what a hardship, having to behave yourself at home and do some chores whilst your single mother is required to be at work to earn the money to keep you in your nice home etc etc.
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Post by vicky on Mar 29, 2019 17:18:02 GMT
She was wandering around the town while suspended and stopped to look at the building he is converting...seemingly single handedly....when he came out and spoke to her.
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Post by hoodylover on Mar 31, 2019 18:44:24 GMT
I've watched the second episode and I've had enough. I don't actually care who the murderer is, and I had to remind myself to watch. Good luck to those who are enjoying it.  |
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