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Post by marion on Jan 23, 2023 14:39:28 GMT
A new drama starts at 9.00 on Wednesday 25 January.
A father who is devoted to and perhaps rather obsessive over his daughter is concerned about her new boyfriend who in the surface is successful, assured, handsome, indeed A Catch. But is he? Is the father right to have his suspicions or is he just paranoid? Jason Watkins plays the father and Aneurin Bernard plays The Catch.
This is based on a book by TM Logan which I read recently and really enjoyed as it was a total page-turner. In the book the father is a successful, retired businessman but in the show they have made him a struggling fisherman. Goodness knows why!!!! If it was just to make the pun in the title I cannot see any benefit.
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Post by linseed on Jan 23, 2023 16:09:40 GMT
I usually like stuff with Aneurin Barnard, so may give it a watch
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Post by kakewalk on Jan 23, 2023 18:23:48 GMT
I’ve not long since read the book too. Yes, it was really good but didn’t associate this new drama with it (from the trailers) for some reason. I hope they make a decent job of it.
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Post by marion on Jan 23, 2023 19:08:12 GMT
I didn’t either! It was only when I read the full blurb in the RT that I realised it was the book. The fishing aspect misled me entirely. Perhaps it is going to be a hybrid if the book and Fisherman’s Friends!😂
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Post by linseed on Jan 26, 2023 16:47:51 GMT
Did anyone watch this? Jason Watkins was fabulous as usual, and Aneurin Barnard the too-perfect boyfriend. I haven’t read the book so have no idea what is going to happen. Very good though
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Post by sootycat on Jan 26, 2023 20:52:57 GMT
As a fan of Jason I was looking forward to this and I wasn’t disappointed.
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Post by kakewalk on Jan 27, 2023 1:27:34 GMT
So far so good. They haven’t changed all that much I suppose although I don’t see why he needs to be a fisherman.
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Post by marion on Jan 28, 2023 21:46:48 GMT
I loved the book and was disappointed by this I’m afraid. I cannot understand why the father is an impoverished fisherman. For once Jason Watkins is not working for me but I do think Aneurin Bernard is very good as Ryan. So it’s watchable but not engrossing for me. And they have changed the ex boyfriend too much as well.
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Post by linseed on Jan 28, 2023 22:57:54 GMT
Maybe having the father as a fisherman means it’s an excuse to film it in a picturesque seaside resort? I don’t know where the book is set, but the locations are stunning on this.
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Post by kakewalk on Jan 29, 2023 2:46:28 GMT
Maybe having the father as a fisherman means it’s an excuse to film it in a picturesque seaside resort? I don’t know where the book is set, but the locations are stunning on this. I wondered if that was the reason, or maybe because it’s cheaper - less disruption to the public maybe. The book is set in the middle of a city, the father works in an office as a web site designer or something I think. He does a lot of following of the boyfriend in his car.
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Post by marion on Jan 29, 2023 9:11:53 GMT
Oh yes, I forgot he was still working! They are very well off in the book.
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Post by kakewalk on Jan 29, 2023 12:48:10 GMT
Well, they were to begin with until he employs that private detective and spends a fortune on tekkie stuff to track the BF.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2023 15:28:59 GMT
I really didn't like it. The boyfriend just seemed to be a smarmy b.; a slightly toned down Uriah Heep. You know that he's a bad 'un; but, in this, you really don't want to know how it will play out, or at least, I don't. I will not be taking this any further than the first episode. I see that the book is highly rated on Amazon; but this has slightly put me off getting it.
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Post by kakewalk on Jan 30, 2023 0:45:06 GMT
In the book, during the boyfriend’s first visit with the family, the father thinks he sees the BF kick the cat, but he didn’t actually see the incident - just that the cat is limping after an encounter with the BF. That is what really what turns him off the BF in the first place. In this production, he seems to be only acting on his gut instinct.
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Post by marion on Jan 30, 2023 8:59:40 GMT
I think the whole plot is far more ambivalent in the book. The father comes over as very creepy at times with his over-possessiveness and total obsession with his daughter. I changed my mind several times reading the book about who was a wrong’un.
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