I tried my best to search through the site and perhaps the search engine has failed again (although I did use the Google advanced search as well, which usually works well), so perhaps this show has been discussed on here before. It just finished airing on BBC America, and despite the piss poor judgement of the network to edit each episode to fit more commercials rather than adding 10 minutes to the broadcast, I was really engrossed by this story. Yeah, the first episode seemed to mirror the Dutch version of The Killing (season 1), but I thought the brilliant cinematic qualities and storyline worked well together. I'll try to avoid spoilers, but wanted to point out that the 3+ minutes of music/ambient sound during the last episode where David Tennant's character is following a cell signal was truly great stuff.
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- Mar 2008
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- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until Jose is fired), Liverpool, and Dortmund
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Jon wrote: Not seen it. But wasn't it an ITV series? I'm intrigued, then, as to why it's showing on BBC America. Can they do that?
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In the last episode, everyone seemed to get amnesia and forget the bad things the other characters had said and done to them. The preceding episodes had numerous implausible plot twists just for the sake of producing cliffhangers. You could argue that, in the first series, drama flowed from character, but in series 2 the characters were just clothes hangers for melodrama.
Worst example was the mother of the dead kid, who swings from grief-stricken hostility to everyday friendliness at the drop of a hat.
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- Mar 2008
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- Off the purple line
- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until Jose is fired), Liverpool, and Dortmund
- Del Taco
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Levin wrote: Ha, that sounds like the first and second series of the Killing. It never came close to the power of that first series.
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I've just (last week) finished series 2 as well, and thought it was enjoyable enough but yes, not as good as series 1. I wasn't too bothered by the nonsense bits as it reminded me rather a lot (right from the first episode of the first series) of Twin Peaks, which has its fair share of ridiculous shit as well.
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Just started watching series 1 of this (in other news, have just discovered this pop group called "The Beatles" - check them out). So far I'm sort of enjoying it, apart from not really being able to get past the existence of a fictional town which is small enough that everybody knows each other, but big enough to have a massive police station with about 30 officers, and a thriving local newspaper.
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- Mar 2008
- 7491
- Off the purple line
- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until Jose is fired), Liverpool, and Dortmund
- Del Taco
Originally posted by ad hoc View PostJust started watching series 1 of this (in other news, have just discovered this pop group called "The Beatles" - check them out). So far I'm sort of enjoying it, apart from not really being able to get past the existence of a fictional town which is small enough that everybody knows each other, but big enough to have a massive police station with about 30 officers, and a thriving local newspaper.
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Ha. See, when I watched it I immediately recognised Broadchurch High Street as Hill Road in Clevedon (the cliffs are somewhere else entirely, in Devon I believe), which I used to go along a few times a week on evening bike rides from my village after school, and as such I always imagine Broadchurch as being about the size of Clevedon. Which is to say, probably still too small to have that sort of newspaper (in the twenty-first century, at least), but perhaps just big enough for the police station not to be ridiculously out of place.
But as I said before, I got a distinctly Twin Peaks vibe from it very early on, so I wasn't that bothered about the bits that didn't really make sense.
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Worth noting that the cast are top bracket actors in the main, with a fair few prestigious credits before and since. It's the characterization that drags it down, where a character suddenly changes mood or perspective. Two women fall out over the murder of a child but next episode it's all hugs again.
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