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Post by Miranda on Jan 30, 2018 23:16:58 GMT
ERmmm.... not sure what you meant by that. I was just being tidy. And everyone is entitled to their opinion.
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Post by sootycat on Jan 31, 2018 12:12:20 GMT
I always enjoy this and especially this episode with Clarissa having a good meaty part...I like that young policeman too.
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Post by beatxt on Jan 31, 2018 13:49:58 GMT
It's been a very ho-hum series so far. This week's was notable for two things: the script aberration that it wasn't all about Nikki - in fact she hardly appeared - plus the ridiculous deployment of possibly the entire Met armed terrorist response team when one of a couple with learning difficulties made a verbal threat to a park keeper that he would shoot him. Last one next week. There's no indication in Radio Times that they are off to an exotic foreign location. But it sounds like it might be all about Nikki. What are the chances she'll spend most of the episode accidentally locked in the office stationery cupboard?  |
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Post by HoraceCoker on Jan 31, 2018 14:36:15 GMT
It's been a very ho-hum series so far. This week's was notable for two things: the script aberration that it wasn't all about Nikki - in fact she hardly appeared - plus the ridiculous deployment of possibly the entire Met armed terrorist response team when one of a couple with learning difficulties made a verbal threat to a park keeper that he would shoot him. Last one next week. There's no indication in Radio Times that they are off to an exotic foreign location. But it sounds like it might be all about Nikki. What are the chances she'll spend most of the episode accidentally locked in the office stationery cupboard? ..only Nikki could get trapped in a bathroom with a chair wedged under the other side handle of an inward opening door... |
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Post by Miranda on Jan 31, 2018 15:50:27 GMT
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Post by vicky on Jan 31, 2018 19:29:27 GMT
But if you can't depress the handle because a chair is wedged under it on the other side......  I found this week's offering managed to be both ludicrous (the armed response team for example) AND disturbing at the same time. Disturbing because we do know that such abuse has actually taken place in care homes and it is an issue that needs to be brought into the public domain. However, I'm not sure such a badly written story as this is the right vehicle for it. I was very confused at the end. Jack said Serena wasn't missing, she was hiding. Next thing we see, they are talking to Serena in some room: what room, where? I don't think that was made clear was it? And how did they know where she was? On the whole, for me, too much time has been given over to the team's private lives and not enough to their cases this series. |
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Post by beatxt on Jan 31, 2018 21:34:04 GMT
But if you can't depress the handle because a chair is wedged under it on the other side...... I found this week's offering managed to be both ludicrous (the armed response team for example) AND disturbing at the same time. Disturbing because we do know that such abuse has actually taken place in care homes and it is an issue that needs to be brought into the public domain. However, I'm not sure such a badly written story as this is the right vehicle for it. I was very confused at the end. Jack said Serena wasn't missing, she was hiding. Next thing we see, they are talking to Serena in some room: what room, where? I don't think that was made clear was it? And how did they know where she was? On the whole, for me, too much time has been given over to the team's private lives and not enough to their cases this series. T'was ever so! Have the writers never watched Vera? - increasingly minimal private life element as each series has progressed. Wasn't Serena found in the boy's house? Wonder how she got in??! |
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Post by deansay on Feb 1, 2018 11:46:57 GMT
But if you can't depress the handle because a chair is wedged under it on the other side...... I found this week's offering managed to be both ludicrous (the armed response team for example) AND disturbing at the same time. Disturbing because we do know that such abuse has actually taken place in care homes and it is an issue that needs to be brought into the public domain. However, I'm not sure such a badly written story as this is the right vehicle for it. I was very confused at the end. Jack said Serena wasn't missing, she was hiding. Next thing we see, they are talking to Serena in some room: what room, where? I don't think that was made clear was it? And how did they know where she was? On the whole, for me, too much time has been given over to the team's private lives and not enough to their cases this series. T'was ever so! Have the writers never watched Vera? - increasingly minimal private life element as each series has progressed. Wasn't Serena found in the boy's house? Wonder how she got in??! That's where I thought she was........did he give her a key?? |
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Post by vicky on Feb 1, 2018 13:37:33 GMT
He had a house? I know Serena said he had when they were interviewing her after he was killed but I thought she meant the Palm House at Kew which he told her he would buy for her. I thought he lived at the care home because his mother couldn't cope with him at the family home. My attention must have wandered somewhere along the way!
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Post by marion on Feb 1, 2018 15:43:49 GMT
Wasn't it the mother's house and so Kevin's family (and inherited) home?
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Post by bethb63 on Feb 1, 2018 16:30:33 GMT
It was Kevin’s mother’s house.
As others have said, parts of this story were ridiculous, but Clarissa’s back story was good - following through to the final reveal about her mum. Heartbreaking.
Serena was good, and I also liked the young policeman, who was maybe on the Autism Spectrum?
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Post by marion on Feb 1, 2018 17:10:06 GMT
Yes Beth, I agree. I enjoyed Clarissa's involvement, thought Serena was very good and really liked Sergeant Button. Get that man in the regular cast!
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Post by vicky on Feb 1, 2018 17:50:31 GMT
It was Kevin’s mother’s house. As others have said, parts of this story were ridiculous, but Clarissa’s back story was good - following through to the final reveal about her mum. Heartbreaking. Serena was good, and I also liked the young policeman, who was maybe on the Autism Spectrum? Oh, of course. Sorry to have been so slow.  |
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Post by janne on Feb 1, 2018 17:53:42 GMT
Yes Beth, I agree. I enjoyed Clarissa's involvement, thought Serena was very good and really liked Sergeant Button. Get that man in the regular cast! I agree, the young cop was good. The flashbacks with Clarissa's mum, she had a lovely mum. |
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Post by undertheparapet on Feb 4, 2018 15:31:54 GMT
I must say I was interested in the parts of this week’s episodes that focused on the abuses at care homes and how vulnerable residents and those with disabilities are generally, once their parents or other family members have died or lack capacity.
But I never foresaw the conspiracy between the contract GP, the rogue carer and various family members. With care homes costing upwards of £25k a year, and inheritances dwindling before their eyes, it’s easy ( well, not easy) to understand people taking these steps, but how likely is it in actuality? Shudders.......
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Anymore to come?
