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Post by marion on Nov 3, 2019 15:00:07 GMT
Like GMan I found episode 2 better than episode 1. At least we had a bit of information regarding Health and Safety requirements, such as the stacking of the gas canisters. On the other hand, I just do not understand how Polly and her husband are still together and how she can chat to him about how he hits her etc. And the way he spoke to her! Blimey! I also don't like the way the widow is being treated; she wasn't responsible for anything her husband may have done. When she was on the sofa I fully expected a brick to come through the window. I am finding the corporate stuff more interesting than the family stuff, which I'm sure wasn't the aim of the show, but I also don't think the conversations are very well written, which doesn't help.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2019 0:54:28 GMT
Just popped in to see what happened tonight. I didn't want to watch any more but thought I might have missed an improvement. No one has posted so I'm guessing that it hasn't got better!
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Post by sootycat on Nov 8, 2019 12:23:04 GMT
I didn't bother this week.
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Post by marion on Nov 9, 2019 23:14:49 GMT
Another poor episode this week I thought. As it finishes next week I shall watch it but if it were a 6 or 8 parter I would not bother. The acting is disappointing to me except for the Asian secretary/lover. When I looked him up he was the lead in The Informer, his first role I believe. He is not as good here but then nobody is up to their usual standard imho. I still cannot work out who is at fault for the disaster but when the private prosecution is heard next week perhaps it will all be clarified.... They are saying the blast didn't kill them so Alan and the gas bottle storage wasn't the issue, but the poor quality steel used. The Danish Prime Minister from Borgen says she did not order poor steel so the steel company acted in bad faith but they deny that. Hmm. Polly will probably decide at the last minute to copy her husband's hard drive and all will be revealed.
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Post by geometryman on Nov 10, 2019 8:22:17 GMT
I agree, rather poor, and it does look like the 30% of blame that they're bringing the private prosecution over will hinge on the steel.
I wonder if it will take a nailbiting few minutes during which it looks like she might get caught in the act of copying it? - which is often what happens in TV land when hard drives are copied. To copy mine would take hours, maybe all day, which is how long my occasional backup runs for.
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Post by marion on Nov 10, 2019 9:24:24 GMT
The families do not seem to accept that the children have any responsibility do they? I don't think they are suing over 30% of the blame. In their minds, especially Angie's, it is 100% someone else's fault. At least that is how the acting conveys it to me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2019 17:10:00 GMT
Life is too short to waste on this! Didn't bother last week and completely forgot about it until I noticed it on today's paper.
The only character I related to was the business lady, no idea of her name. I really liked her character in the Unforgotten which we watched recently (fab series)
As I said before . . if those kids hadn't broken in - to knowingly trespass and paint graffiti and whatever else they had planned they would still be alive.
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Post by bidiein on Nov 14, 2019 21:33:29 GMT
Have this on in the background. The daughter who led her friends on the vandalism crusade was torn apart by the defence - finally. It was pointed out that if the building they were running amok in had not been damaged, SHE would have been in jail for what she did. And a key prosecution witness changed his evidence.
But no doubt the families will win...
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Post by bidiein on Nov 14, 2019 21:48:02 GMT
With no idea of how funny it came across, Joanna Scanlan's character decided to tell the press all about the children who died. Like her daughter "she drank and she took drugs. And yes, she was only 15. But she wanted to be a Nursery teacher"... So that's all right then...  |
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Post by bidiein on Nov 14, 2019 21:57:30 GMT
Members of the jury, have you reached a (believable) verdict....
No, they didn't.
Gross negligence manslaughter...7 years.
Pathetic. Was any research done for this series about this kind of case? About the likelihood of a successful private prosecution and the likely sentence?
And now the mothers of the children are celebrating....
This might - just might - have worked if the children had been under 10 and had gained access easily. But they climbed a high wall topped with barbed wire to carry out their planned vandalism. The construction of the building was immaterial until THEY caused the explosion by dropping a lit cigarette lighter near stored gas cannisters.
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Post by marion on Nov 14, 2019 23:14:51 GMT
The Danish PM got 7years? I don't think I shall watch it now. I thought they were suing for damages, not a prison sentence.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2019 23:17:19 GMT
Thank goodness I didn't bother - I would have been shouting at the telly and that would have another waste of my time!
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Post by bidiein on Nov 15, 2019 9:16:16 GMT
She was convicted of corporate manslaughter, got 7 years and will serve 3.
Not accurate, imo. Despite changes to the law in this country corporate manslaughter is VERY difficult to prove in court.
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Post by marion on Nov 15, 2019 10:58:34 GMT
But apparently it is a matter which is very important to the writer, very important. So I guess he wrote a show with a point to make. I think he probably was so wrapped up in this aspect, it led to the deficiencies in the story. Plus he had decided after Kiri he wanted Sarah Lancashire as the lead and I felt she struggled with this role.
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Anymore to come?
