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Broadchurch - A compelling mystery series w/ David Tennant - S2 - Mondays on ITV
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It gives David Tennant the excuse to do his anxious face.
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Really? It's the best part! This courtroom shit is lame, unrealistic as noted above and completely melodramatic. The shit at the end - I mean really? Just give Tennant and Coleman a new case and scrap the rest of these shitty characters!
That killed it for me. Didn't even finish the episode. Just shut it off and said "I'm done." If you have video evidence of him confessing BEFORE he's beaten (mind you the entire beating is probably recorded as well) then why in the world isn't this reviewed? Dramatic effect for the sake of dramatic effect while completing throwing logic and process out the window is awful.
I really enjoyed the first season and frankly, was pretty intrigued where they were going with it after the opener but this was just a really bad episode and that was the turd topping of it all.
Didn't they say because it means the bruises could have come from before they brought him in, so they could have beaten him into a confession before he got to the station?
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the court scenes in this show, the ending hahah
just smh, what the fuck happened to the writing
also this has become YELLING the show
just smh, what the fuck happened to the writing
also this has become YELLING the show
I appreciate the creators intent they didn't 'just' want to do another direct repeat of S1 with a murder whodunnit and turn it into Midsomer Murders, but it feels forced and melodramic to the point of distraction.
I'm having an OK time watching it and probably will see it through to the end, but it's a comedown.
I'm having an OK time watching it and probably will see it through to the end, but it's a comedown.
Yeah, what the fuck was that? I thought the UK have a strict defamation clauses, can Miller or Hardy just sue the hell out of that bitch for such accusations without any evidence? She straight-out accused her of not only an affair but also tempering of evidence and conspiracy.
I know that shit goes easy in USA-based series, but this is not that.
Adam Scott Aukerman
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I'm not sure how that works in court really, but I found it especially laughable that the claim was made directly after the defence shot down Miller's suspicion about her husband's movements while she was asleep. They have evidence of her arriving, and of her leaving, but nothing in between. Stick to the facts!
Then again, it's the job of barristers to be total fuckers, so perhaps that kind of thing is common place.
Personally I haven't really thought much of this series so far. I really enjoyed the first because the cast was very strong and the direction and cinematography were brilliant, while the mystery itself was so-so. So far, the new cast additions do nothing for me, the direction and cinematography have taken a clear nosedive and I'm not finding the mystery at all interesting.
UnluckyKate
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I just finished watching this.
It was really nice. Love aesthics, music and actors but it felt sometimes a bit like a throw in mystery. young and drugs, familly abuse, old pedo, village scape goat, mystic guy, you name it...
edit : wait what, there's a season 2 ? wtf
It was really nice. Love aesthics, music and actors but it felt sometimes a bit like a throw in mystery. young and drugs, familly abuse, old pedo, village scape goat, mystic guy, you name it...
edit : wait what, there's a season 2 ? wtf
This fucking episode...
I honestly didn't expect such a big dip in quality... and so soon!
Same, I really liked the first season. The 2nd is just plain bad.
Started in the UK in January. March is the BBC America premiere.
I guess in a round about way that sort of makes sense but you have a confession on tape with no video with no visible damage to him. That's asking the viewers to take a huge leap of faith. To me, it sort of invalidated the rest of the court scenes.
BlazingDarkness
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Episode 3 - crap.
Cornballer
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- BBC America trailer for S2 (premieres March 4th in the US)
thestopsign
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Feels like they are retconning the show right now. Not sure what to think after the last episode.
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Episode 5 was crap too. Every episode this season has been so dissapointing. All the law stuff is fucking atricious
The wigs are just the beginning.
That's what I'd like to know too. Feels like something out of Ace Attorney.
Adam Scott Aukerman
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Yeah direction and cinematography were a night and day improvement over eps 1-4. Having looked up the crew, it was directed by someone who's new to the series, but there's no change in the cinematographer (who's doing the whole second series).
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i don't mind the second season.
i didn't know it was this hated.
i didn't know it was this hated.
OBJECTION!
YOU AND THE OTHER PERSON WERE HAVING AN AFFAIR WEREN'T YOU!
OBJECTION!
KEY EVIDENCE COULD HAVE MAYBE BEEN BEATEN OUT OF THE DEFENDANT BEFORE THE DEFENDANT CONFESSED. HIS WIFE IS ALSO A POLICE OFFICER!
OBJECTION!
HE DIDN'T DO IT BECAUSE ???
*CUE FIVE MINUTES OF DAVID TENANT OR THE MOTHER GAZING ABOUT*
StopMakingSense
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I like it, but everything in the courtroom is HORRIBLE.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/broadchurch/11385416/Broadchurch-ep-5-review.html
Sums it up for me, though I'm not optimistic as to the last question of whether the final three will be worth it.
Bishop is an awfully written antagonist. Dire. Not one hint of truth in what otherwise could be the star turn role. The writer needs kicking, as acting talent is abundant in the show but they're just drowning in overplaying very thin material.
Sums it up for me, though I'm not optimistic as to the last question of whether the final three will be worth it.
Bishop is an awfully written antagonist. Dire. Not one hint of truth in what otherwise could be the star turn role. The writer needs kicking, as acting talent is abundant in the show but they're just drowning in overplaying very thin material.
AHA-Lambda
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I wouldn't say I actively hate the series but it is a BIG letdown, and to me actually it's the Sandbrook stuff that just doesn't hold my interest.
The court stuff ain't realistic at all no, but I find it interesting in it's soap opera schlock.
The court stuff ain't realistic at all no, but I find it interesting in it's soap opera schlock.
I stopped watching this halfway through episode 5. I thought season 1 was good, not great but really really solid.
Season 2 is straight up poop.
How many damned times are we going to have someone standing off in the distance watching someone else. How did the show take such a dive.
Season 2 is straight up poop.
How many damned times are we going to have someone standing off in the distance watching someone else. How did the show take such a dive.
I wouldn't say it's garbage, but it's definitely a huge drop in quality from S1.
What Chris1 said - it's not exactly garbage, but it's not great either.
The acting, directing and the score are as good as in S1, but the writing has taken a huge dip in quality, and that's the biggest problem in the current season.
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Only 2 more eps left thank the lord
The quality drop from s1 to s2 might be the worst ive ever seen in a show
The quality drop from s1 to s2 might be the worst ive ever seen in a show
Adam Scott Aukerman
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I think all he said was that he'd decided he didn't want to go to prison for it. I guess the reason they've not dug into it is that they'll be a SURPRISE accomplice that will be revealed in the finale or some similar utter shit.
On another note, who the fuck would choose to wear a piece of stolen evidence from a murder (in which you're seemingly involved) in a photograph that you're going to be sharing so publicly? I mean, COME ON!
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