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Broadchurch; Seasons 1 & 2
Topic Started: Aug 8 2013, 09:21 PM (2,993 Views)
blosslover
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The information posted originally was wrong. Broadchurch series 2 is only airing starting on March 4. I bet you all can guess that I'm peeved as I was annoyed by the February date, but then pushing it another month back is even more ridiculous. Having the wrong info out for a week makes them look idiotic. I guess they want people to watch in other ways, because the UK DVD is being released at the end of March, and the US audience won't even have seen the full show by then. Canadian viewers are getting Broadchurch within a week of the UK, so really it is going to take 2 months to edit. The only reason I can come up with beyond editing is they are going to be showing the last run of Ripper Street before then or something.
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No idea on the reason for the month-later start. Maybe it's legal reasons... might think 'UK exclusivity' clause for x amount of time, but that doesn't make sense if Canada is just a WEEK off...

I'll do my best to avoid UK spoilers... shouldn't be that bad, but yeah, if the DVD is at the right price and we could jump four or five episodes ahead in one swoop, I MIGHT...

(I'm somewhat tempted by Amazon's current buy-two-get-$10-off British tv sale... I could get Broadchurch 1 and Mr. Selfridge 2 (I have 1 already) for $15 each... but I HAVE already gotten myself enough 'presents', probably...)
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Where did Broadchurch leave off?....

Oh, that's right. Alec Hardy fell asleep while watching a Breaking Bad marathon and had a really familiar-but-American-accented fever dream....
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Ha Ha Dax...basically spoilers will be nearly impossible for me to avoid unless I stay off tumblr and twitter for 2 months. (If I can access the Canadian broadcasts online, I'll use those probably as in a pinch I've done that when CBS preempted Y&R as the CBS player can be awful.)
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Jodie Whittaker was in EP3 of Black Mirror, which made me want to rewatch some episodes of Broadchurch. But since I have until March, now....


Did you find a way to watch Black Mirror's Christmas Special, BL?
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The CBS player is awful, awful, awful... I just use it for Person of Interest...
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Actually in theory, I would have to avoid everything related to any Broadchurch performer, director, writer etc. from Jan-end of the BBCAmerica run due to spoilers and also anyone I speak to that likes any person that is on that show who isn't waiting for the BBCAmerica run. So it wouldn't be just two months, but more and due to how social media works, even if I was watching BBCA version, tweeting or tumblring about it could make me spoiled if people are jerks and respond with spoilers. (I've seen that happen, someone will think they are helping and respond to tweets from people they don't know and share story lines...) If you only discuss Broadchurch here, it would be easy enough to stay spoiler free...as even if I plan to watch ahead I'll spoiler bar everything...

Send me a message...I can share how to access the Black Mirror Christmas Special...Cool about Jodie Whittaker being in that earlier episode.
Edited by blosslover, Dec 19 2014, 11:40 PM.
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Really enjoyed the first episode of S2. The music was wonderful. There were a few moments that felt a bit like drama for the sake of drama but I was so happy to see them interact again that I didn't even care.

Pleasantly surprised at the direction the story went. I love how this show gets me so invested in the lives of fictional characters, lol.
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Yay... Bl converted me to the Fuck Waiting Two Months side...

Love Marianne Jean-Baptiste... She's like the British CCH Pounder, who must surely be her Gracepoint counterpart...

I didn't feel like bashing the American show was particularly fair, but that first scene in the bathroom definitely put an exclamation point on how much stronger the Carver/Miller interplay was/is drawn...

So terrible that Tom won't see Ellie...

Mark's thing is weird.

Set-up of the stories worked for me... Both look good.
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Reading the comments at The Guardian was like reading the comments at Sepinwall's blog for one of the lesser episodes of The Walking Dead....so much hate! I like Broadchurch so much more than TWD, so it kinda made me feel bad. There were two things they were so mad about, which makes me wonder if the US audience will be so bothered by them when it debuts here.

There's plenty of hate for Doctor Who episodes at The Guardian, too, so I should have known what I was getting myself into, lol.
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What do they hate?

Spoiler tags to protect KMI, or... she could stay away from here... Either way is fine with me, but let's discuss if we have 3/4 of our Broadchurch people watching...
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I'll stay out. :P
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We can label the first post about a new show (#1 - ) so it'll be easy to 'catch up' when you join us...
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The part that didn't make sense from a legal standpoint was how the Latimers were looking for someone to prosecute Miller for the crown. This isn't how it is done in the UK...Also the fact that the two lawyers knew each other is somewhat problematic. Also I wonder the whole 3 hours to the court how could that be...but minor things...

I love that my side is the Fuck Waiting side...LOL too true.

Martha's Mom on Doctor Who was Ellie's therapist. LOL =)

For me Colman and Tennant just have it on the chemistry side, I'm not talking about romantic chemistry, but just their interplay is great. That was one of the main problems with Gracepoint, is that it is something that is there or not.

I do wonder if Joe's comment was about something more than just him being into children in that small town. That's a horrifying thought, but not impossible.

I'm going to watch again (of course). Digital Spy, which is my go to for comments on UK shows, had over 20 pages about the second series. Everyone who posts there seems to like the show though. =)
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>> was how the Latimers were looking for someone to prosecute Miller for the crown. This isn't how it is done in the UK.

Or anywhere, I wouldn't think... but I didn't see it as their responsibility or anything, just that they had an invested interest in securing somebody good...

>> also the fact that the two lawyers knew each other is somewhat problematic.

Eh. An overly familiar scenario, sure, as are the reluctant returns from retirement after _____ (always purposely vague dialogue of 'you KNOW what happened'), but it doesn't shout 'problem' to me at this point... we already know the (alleged?) murderer, his family, the victim's family... attorneys Rampling vs. Jean-Baptiste is going to be a student/mentor longtime personal rivalry thingie... I'm fine with that.
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What do they hate?
It seems like a lot of people hate-watch over there, lol. Mostly they were pissed about the Latimers going to the Charlotte Rampling character, which they said would never happen, and the whole scene at Danny's grave. Some were bitching about the music being so loud they couldn't hear what was being said, but I don't remember scene in which I felt that. Usually, I'm the first to feel lost on what's being said in a UK show.


I'm very thankful to BL for sharing that link, both because there's next to nothing to watch right now, and because I hate my cable provider. :)
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End of #4 fun, with Susan saying she witnessed Nigel....

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(I think some of my posts are in the watching and viewing thread, so I forget some comments-forgot this thread was here waiting.)

Up to #6 now, still liking this a whole lot. Very impressed with D'Arcy's Lee. I have no idea where that's going. I continue to adore Eve Myles and so this whole thing is really working for me in a creepy way.

The court case is playing well too. Imo the writers are really doing a good job looking at the story from a new angle and showing the difficulties in PROVING guilt...to the point I am actually wondering if Joe is, in fact NOT guilty, despite his confession.

And David Tennant rocks so hard. Am I imagining it or are the scenes after his pacemaker was implanted showing him in a different light, a different color, as if he's reinvigorated...no longer hagged, weak, edgy, but ready to move forward.

Colman is also great.

There are a couple glitches with the plot but I'm still able to overlook those. (Really, Claire keeps that necklace? Ellie's sister kept evidence she was sort-of paid to lie on the stand?)

Saving this here for when I finish the series.

Bilki: This article from Variety sums up what I mean... http://variety.com/2015/tv/reviews/tv-review-broadchurch-season-2-1201442231/
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I really liked Joe pleading "Not Guilty" and the exploration of that. It felt like a good way to show how the whole town was impacted, which is part of what I loved about S1. Unfortunately, the Sandbrook case felt like a distraction from that, and some of the courtroom scenes weren't really working for me, either.

I did love it when Ellie told her son to get his ass back home, which made me want to see more. But since my cable company hates me, I can't watch anything on BBCA.
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Boy, Claire's reaction to Alec kicking her out was, um, 'big'.

Ellie telling off Tom was great.

Lots of strong courtroom moments.

I like it.
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Strong performances in the finale.

Sandbrook resolution sad. But good for Alec that it's done.

No obvious set-up for a Season 3... it definitely felt like it was GOING to be 'Joe's dead - Whodunnit?', but as that's a little TOO obvious, the banishment scenes played better. Glad Beth and Ellie are reconciled.
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I agree - strong performances. And I liked the twisty end of the Sandbrook stuff, but was disappointed with the resolution with Joe. I think it was too quick to tack on a scene where everyone is able to be their 'vengence-free' selves, able to rise above their anger and sadness. I wanted the minister to kill him or something different to happen - even a more violent 'run him out on the rails' forcibly, rather than the tame taxi scene.
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Joe DESERVED to die, sure, but... I don't know. I expected we'd see him dead on the beach, and everyone's a suspect - and everybody's justified - and I was kinda 'oh, okay, cool... they didn't do that'. Of course, he may one day slink back into town and THEN be promptly murdered...

Since Tom was more 'in denial' or still wanting to support his Dad 'even though', I thought it a shame that he was just a bystander to the 'get in the cab' and there was no moment between them there...

Sandbrook was a little harder to invest in since everybody seemed dodgy and distrustful (and, turns out, with good reason)... just an awful tragedy that three of the four adults were culpable (and then we didn't see the only innocent one in the finale...).

Season 1 was better, but Season 2 wasn't bad.
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Here is an article that EW did with the showrunner, which answers some of what has been discussed. (Since the third series hasn't been written this only has spoilers through everything we've seen.)

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/21/broadchurch-season-2-finale-interview

I liked the second series, but the first was one of my top ten in the last five years...
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http://deadline.com/2016/04/broadchurch-season-three-final-new-cast-david-tenant-olivia-colman-charlie-higson-georgina-campbell-itv-bbc-america-1201735963/
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http://deadline.com/2016/05/lenny-henry-broadchurch-david-tennant-olivia-colmanseason-3-shooting-starts-itv-1201761262/
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