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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Sept 20, 2021 17:28:03 GMT
Well, this sounds cheerful. Not.
Hollington Drive will premiere on ITV on Wednesday September 29th at 9pm.
Hollington Drive focuses on the lives of two sisters, Theresa, and her older head teacher sibling, Helen. The sisters appear close and their families enjoy spending time together.
We open on a warm, balmy evening, barbecue sizzling on the patio, the perfect family setting. The atmosphere is chilled, as they lounge in Theresa and Fraser’s perfectly manicured garden. Apart from Fraser’s brother Eddie winding everyone up, there’s hardly a hint of tension, but this is the calm before the storm.
When Theresa’s ten-year-old son, Ben asks to play in the nearby park with his cousin Eva, the adults begin to niggle. Fraser is relaxed and is fine for them to go, but this doesn’t help Theresa’s fears of foreboding and growing feelings of anxiety.
As expected the children don’t return on time, and Theresa goes in search. Her suspicions are heightened when she finds the children on the edge of a woodland area and they appear to be fighting. Immediately her instincts tell her something terrible has happened. This is all too realised when later that evening distraught neighbour, Jean, calls on the family. Her ten-year-old son Alex has gone missing.
The drama series stars Anna Maxwell Martin, Rachael Stirling, Rhashan Stone, Peter McDonald, Ken Nwosu, Jonas Armstrong and Jodie McNee.
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Post by sootycat on Sept 20, 2021 17:53:23 GMT
This sounds really familiar, has it been done before?
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Post by marion on Sept 21, 2021 9:53:54 GMT
That’s just what I thought Sootycat! Maybe I have read a book on the same lines, or perhaps seen a foreign version. I shall be watching though.
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Post by Miranda on Sept 21, 2021 10:16:40 GMT
It sounds like that Australian drama shown last year. Can't remember the name
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Post by bethb63 on Sept 30, 2021 15:21:50 GMT
It was all a bit dour, wasn’t it?
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Post by marion on Oct 1, 2021 15:10:19 GMT
I really enjoyed it, but three things….
1. I cannot believe Theresa as played by AMM would ever be known as T.
2. Why are they thinking of moving to the country? To my eyes they already live there.
3. Their house looks massive so must surely have at least four bedrooms, so why does Eddie(who has no filter it seems) have to sleep on the sofa.
I think we would all agree these are the crunch issues.
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Post by marion on Oct 7, 2021 20:37:00 GMT
Ugh. I can’t stand it when people pervert the course of justice. I hope they get sent down!
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Post by cakewalk44 on Oct 7, 2021 23:19:07 GMT
So much of it is unconvincing. For example, when she decides to give a description of this 'fictional man' she's seen, when she realises she's described an actual neighbour - ok, easily done I suppose, but why then, when looking through the photos at the police station, she gives a very firm 'that's him' rather than being a lot more vague as she so easily coud've done. At this stage the police aren't putting any unnecessary pressure on her.
Poor script.
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Post by geometryman on Oct 8, 2021 7:35:34 GMT
The reason was everything changed after the meeting she'd just had with her sister Helen, who showed her Alex's tablet that she'd doctored to remove her daughter Eva's hate messages, just leaving Ben's - and pointing out this tablet would have to be handed to the police. She successfully planted the idea in Theresa's mind that it would be better for the police to have a definite suspect, on whom they must already "have something" anyway, to distract any future attention away from Ben.
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Post by vicky on Oct 8, 2021 14:41:17 GMT
I don't like either of these sisters. Helen is quite prepared to throw Ben under a bus to - as she thinks - save her daughter (doesn't she know that deleted messages can be retrieved by the police?) and Theresa is absolutely horrible to her poor child. She doesn't seem to love him at all and always believes the worst of him. I know she worries about what genes he may have inherited from his unknown father but even so: poor kid. I don't think I'll bother watching until the end.
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Post by bethb63 on Oct 8, 2021 18:49:26 GMT
I also feel quite sorry for Ben.
It gained some interest for me this week. I really dislike the sisters, so I want to see their scheming implode.
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Post by geometryman on Oct 8, 2021 22:48:16 GMT
I'm getting more interested now, and quite looking forward to the next episode. I think there must be a lot more to come out yet. For example, from ep. 1 it seems that Helen is having an affair with the dead child's father, played by Jonas Armstrong, but he hasn't featured much so far. Neither has Helen's husband.
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Post by bethb63 on Oct 20, 2021 21:27:00 GMT
Well. That went in a wholly different direction to anything I imagined. The finale was quite tense, which I thought played out well, though I didn’t quite see the point of the crashing the car unless she hoped to kill T.
That was a pretty amazing house that they moved to a the end. Where did the money come from?
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Post by geometryman on Oct 21, 2021 7:50:20 GMT
I didn't predict the perp, though did believe they were somehow involved. I'd forgotten about Alex's little hobby from early on in the series, of filming the neighbours.
I didn't see the point of crashing the car either, which I didn't think was her original intention when setting off. It was going to be an imprecise and uncertain method. I couldn't help wondering why the air bags didn't deploy! - it was a modern enough car that it surely would have had them.
I was unable to take the detective at all seriously - perhaps because he was played by Pat the scoutmaster from 'Ghosts'!
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Post by sootycat on Oct 21, 2021 10:57:12 GMT
I was unable to take the detective at all seriously - perhaps because he was played by Pat the scoutmaster from 'Ghosts'! Nor me, every time I looked at him I could see him as the scout  |
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Anymore to come?
