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Post by sleepyp on Sept 26, 2022 16:46:26 GMT
It’s had very good reviews, even from the annoying woman in the ‘i’
I really enjoyed it, good central character who is just ‘ordinary’ in the best sense - no dark past, complicated present, or general air of anguish
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Post by Miranda on Sept 26, 2022 17:41:36 GMT
I was laughing at the faces she was making in the interview with the superior officers. She looked about 14 at one point!
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Post by vicky on Sept 26, 2022 17:54:06 GMT
I was laughing at the faces she was making in the interview with the superior officers. She looked about 14 at one point! Like I said, as though she was bunking off school! If they dramatise any of the books where she has become a very senior police officer they will have to either dramatically age this actress or find someone who actually looks like a DCI!  |
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 26, 2022 20:10:38 GMT
I suspect that's our age showing. She looked old enough to me. We forget how young we looked in our 20s.
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Post by Miranda on Sept 26, 2022 20:42:52 GMT
Very true! I looked 10 years younger than I was until my mid 40s when I suddenly aged 10 years in the space of a year.
But it was the eye-rolling that was makng me laugh.
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 26, 2022 20:55:22 GMT
With me it was 50, I just went wallop what happened there. Mind you I met my twin for lunch on Sunday and she looks 10 years older than me. I haven't seen her since, well ages, she kinda hibernates and I almost did a double take. She still has a great sense of humour though, still has you laughing in 5 minutes.
We all age so differently don't we.
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Post by Miranda on Sept 26, 2022 20:59:34 GMT
We do indeed. I'm watching the second one and liking her more and more. She works on a similar principle to me: Better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.  |
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Post by Miranda on Sept 26, 2022 21:31:22 GMT
Just finished. Crikey.
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Post by Miranda on Sept 26, 2022 22:29:22 GMT
This is some gorgeous scenery! Man, I need a holiday.
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Post by Miranda on Sept 26, 2022 23:02:22 GMT
That was bloody brilliant! And I apologise to Val McDermid for my initial reaction. I should have had more faith.
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Post by cakewalk44 on Sept 27, 2022 1:46:21 GMT
There was an interesting article about this in last week's Radio Times which explained the reasoning behind the casting for this. It said that Val McDermid was fed up of the way most cop shows have the main character as being an older bloke of senior rank doing all the running around, whereas in reality it would be the younger, lower ranks who would do all the donkey work including any formal interviews. There was also a feminist side to her argument, but I do think this has been addressed lately, (but obviously the book would have been written a while ago!)
I think she said that she really liked the idea that Karen Pirie would be cast as someone at 5'3, and a good 10" shorter than her bosses, (so that was the idea of the screenwriter). I guess that us all talking about how young she appears kind of proves the point that the casting has worked anyway!
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 27, 2022 12:09:15 GMT
This is some gorgeous scenery! Man, I need a holiday. It's a beautiful county, Fife. Not hard to get to. |
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Post by vicky on Oct 3, 2022 10:17:48 GMT
I am enjoying this so much! Karen Pirie is a great character isn't she and I think this actress - who I didn't know before - has really made the part her own. Good stuff 👍
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Post by beverley61 on Oct 3, 2022 11:30:42 GMT
Yep, still so many suspects. I'm still wondering if it's the policeman who keeps telling her off or whether it's the man who she said was the father. Obviously her murder was set up to look like a copycat of the other one they mentioned that had taken place a few months earlier in another area.
So long since I've read the book that changes are only obvious to me when they happen on screen and sometimes even then I have to think, did that happen in the book?
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Post by linseed on Oct 3, 2022 13:33:59 GMT
I read the book in lockdown., but it must have made a big impression, as I can remember it clearly. Unfortunately, that means I know. Will keep  This is of no consequence to the storyline but I've a feeling in the book that the child of the murdered woman was a boy, not a girl. |
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Anymore to come?
