Broadchurch ITV/TV3 [** Spoilers **]

JP Liz V1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS1e4b_EXFM

Starts tonight at 9pm

David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Andrew Buchan and Jodie Whittaker, star in Broadchurch – a brand new powerful, thought provoking drama series by Kudos Film and Television for ITV.
This series is written and created by Chris Chibnall (Law and Order: UK, Doctor Who) and will explore what happens to a small community in Dorset when it suddenly becomes the focus of a police investigation, following the tragic and mysterious death of an eleven year old boy under the glare of the media spotlight.

Alicat

I have high hopes! Looks very interesting.

fifi234ie

Enough there to keep me watching, seems like everyone's involved.

Fionne

I've only seen the 1st episode but it's certainly good. Does anyone else think Olivia Colman looks very like Miss Jones from Rising Damp though? Keeps popping into my head every time she's on screen.

Jester144

I still have no idea who killed Danny.....ideas anyone?

FloatingVoter

Jester144 wrote: »

I still have no idea who killed Danny.....ideas anyone?

At this rate I'm suspecting David Tennant (I think that Pauline Quirke's dog may also know something).

Heroditas

I definitely think Ellie's son Tom knows something in connection to the murder.
I wonder what was on the hard drive he destroyed - porn maybe? Something that ties him in with Danny and the murderer.
Maybe Nige?

Mr E

Broadchurch threads merged.

dublinmarg

thinking there's a link about copper's husband and maybe her son suspects something? trying to remember the night they had dinner with new boss cop and he told him how he moved to Broadchurch? any ideas?

JP Liz V1

Jester144 wrote: »

I still have no idea who killed Danny.....ideas anyone?

Tom Miller

Heroditas

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Tom Miller

My theory is he killed Danny accidentally when they were out hunting pheasants with Nige.
What makes it even more of a tragedy is that Susan Wright is partly to blame.
How? Well bear with me...
She appears to have been following Nige for many years to ensure he didn't turn out like his father. A few episodes ago, we saw Nige give her an envelope of money - probably for her to live on.
How did he get this money? From shooting the pheasants and selling them to the butcher.

Why is it tragic? Well if Susan wasn't keeping an eye on Nige, there would never have been a need for him to raise the extra money for her to live on and he wouldn't have needed to go shooting pheasants. As a result, Danny would still be alive.

Now, he claims that he didn't know Susan was his mother but they have definitely crossed paths in the past because she said "I've disappeared before, I can do it again", perhaps indicating she has been holding a watching brief over him for many years.

That's one theory and it might not hold up to much scrutiny.
Either that or Ellie's husband is the perpetrator and is tied in to the case that was previously botched by Alex and is the murderer from that case. Somehow that seems a bit too far-fetched though.

What's on the laptop though? Messages about meeting up to go stealing pheasants?

donalh087

It is set in Dorset.
His name is Hardy.
He is reading Jude the Obscure.
The plot of Jude is child murder.
It is (IMHO) a Thomas Hardy novel - and from that, Watson, I deduce it is Ollie the young journo.

Heroditas

Final episode on now!

blue4ever

FfS- didnt see that one coming!!!

mfceiling

blue4ever wrote: »

FfS- didnt see that one coming!!!

Same as

Heroditas

What a terribly sad final episode. I'm rarely moved by a TV programme but that really made a lump stick in my throat.

See the final credit at the end?

second series??!!

donalh087

Must say I was very disappointed. A completely illogical resolution designed to pull the heart strings. Pity.

Jester144

dublinmarg wrote: »

thinking there's a link about copper's husband and maybe her son suspects something? trying to remember the night they had dinner with new boss cop and he told him how he moved to Broadchurch? any ideas?

Well you were right then!

donalh087

Did the son know/suspect all along?

niallon

The minute that

Susan was leaving the police station and Miller said "in you own house, how could you not know" coupled with Susan thinking she saw Nige and how similar he is to Tom

I knew it, only took me seven episodes but hey!

Fantastic show, Tennant is just bloody fantastic. Creator has said he only meant it as a one off but the second series option has to be there of course, more angry grumpy cop Tennant is no bad thing IMO

JP Liz V1

Second season confirmed

beepop

I love this show. Its great very interested.

donalh087

Can I ask again guys........... Did the son know/suspect all along that his father was the killer?

Jester144

No, I don't think he did - the son was angry with Danny because Danny said he had a new 'friend' and did not want to be friends with Joe anymore.

Read online today that the new series might possibly be set around the aftermath of Danny's death, not another 'whodunnit'.

brian_t

Broadchurch: exclusive extra scene - Danny's wake

Watch this exclusive clip to follow the series finale of Broadchurch. Find out what happens to the residents of the town as they gather for Danny's wake. WARNING: contains spoilers if you have not watched episode 8.

Not a fan, pretty contrived and could have been anyone they wanted it to be after 7 episodes.

cherryghost

Sorry for the bump but I wasn't really interested in it until it got broadcast in the US to critical acclaim. Sat and watched the entire season in a week. Great stuff all round. Can't wait for the second season.

I missed it to and ITV havent repeated it,I wonder if TV3 will show it!

Watching the first episode and rather enjoying it. Tennant is good and it's always nice to see Colman but by Christ she looks miserable. Casting agents must see the wires middle aged female and crying in a script and instantly think of Colman. She spends most of the first episode either crying or on the verge of.

What channel are you watching it on or is it by, ahem, other means?

Basq

Watched the whole series on a quiet Sunday a few weeks back..

.. gotta say I loved it!