The Salisbury Poisonings [BBC]

JP Liz V1

BBC One’s three-part drama The Salisbury Poisonings will premiere on Sunday June 14th at 9pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekoW6g_wg7A

expectationlost

its starts with text on the screen

“In 2018 the people of Salisbury were faced with an unprecedented crisis,” “A chemical weapons attack on a British city."

I thought it was an attempted assassination of 1/2 people.

fryup

Good opening episode, excellent acting all round, stellar cast...shall watch the remaining two with interest.

skooterblue2

expectationlost wrote: »

its starts with text on the screen

I thought it was an attempted assassination of 1/2 people.

The question was were they assassinated or were they allowed be assassinated? There were more unanswered questions than answered at the time.

expectationlost

skooterblue2 wrote: »

The question was were they assassinated or were they allowed be assassinated? There were more unanswered questions than answered at the time.

Link to Conspiracy Theories forum here for you https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=106828842

skooterblue2

expectationlost wrote: »

Link to Conspiracy Theories forum here for you https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=106828842

Ahh the BBC, home of patron saint of Charities Jimmy Saville and other nefarious characters and other propaganda.

ohnonotgmail

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Ahh the BBC, home of patron saint of Charities Jimmy Saville and other nefarious characters and other propaganda.

i'm sure there will be a putin approved version that centers on a nice day out by two russians to see a cathedral spire available any time soon

gmisk

Watched episode 1 really excellent.
It feels like it was made by people who normally do documentaries, I mean that as a compliment

fryup

those poor down on their luck couple come a cropper iirc

expectationlost

hospital security not very good.


did the cop not take his gloves off properly?

the bailey's a tweeting https://twitter.com/DSNickBailey
https://twitter.com/SarahBailey3/with_replies the wife said she was never told she couldn't touch him

expectationlost

confused by the scene of the woman using a perfume bottle at the beginning of the first episode waiting for the couple to get sick only for it to be shown they hadn't found it yet.

ejmaztec

Here's a good insight into the BBC's effort

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/06/the-miracle-of-salisbury/?fbclid=IwAR3sfArJjLDldCdEgPBJuJic2M1juIC4SM6UNrWUJlF58vdic9Zp6oiXjOk

Rabbit Redux

A nice touch to feature the real-life people whose lives were affected at the end of tonight's final episode.

fryup

i wonder will the Sturgess family have any chance of taking the kremlin to court??

i hope they succeed

Harry Palmr

Pretty good I thought, the news only dealt with the politics of the event, the people were only covered when complaining about businesses being closed and the like. Those most effected other than the Skripals (who are now in New Zealand) were never heard from really.

fryup

Can't believe those russian agents would be so careless as to dispose of that perfume bottle in a shop's wheelie bin?? I would have thought they would have had a more secure way of getting rid of it?

gmisk

I thought that was excellent the 3rd episode was quite emotional.
The acting was terrific....the Russians have some fecking neck!

The_Dave

Anyone else found it a bit weird how everyone was portrayed as so 'nice'

Harry Palmr

The_Dave wrote: »

Anyone else found it a bit weird how everyone was portrayed as so 'nice'

Nice? What were you expecting? Anyway there was a narky neighbour, an angry son, a frustrated wife, a couple of scared kids, you know emotional reactions to a pressure cooker situation.

The_Dave

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Nice? What were you expecting? Anyway there was a narky neighbour, an angry son, a frustrated wife, a couple of scared kids, you know emotional reactions to a pressure cooker situation.

I was expecting reality, not some fantasy land where everyone treats everyone else well and no one has a bad word to say about the main characters

expectationlost

The_Dave wrote: »

I was expecting reality, not some fantasy land where everyone treats everyone else well and no one has a bad word to say about the main characters

well they showed some conflict with whitehall and very angry shop keepers and residents

maudgonner

fryup wrote: »

Can't believe those russian agents would be so careless as to dispose of that perfume bottle in a shop's wheelie bin?? I would have thought they would have had a more secure way of getting rid of it?

The attempts to scupper the investigation would lead you to think that spying is often more like Johnny English than James Bond:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/04/how-russian-spies-bungled-cyber-attack-on-weapons-watchdog


Keeping the taxi receipt for expenses :pac:

JP Liz V1

It is starting on RTE 1 next Tuesday

JP Liz V1

Need a Username

I watched the first episode on Disney+ earlier.

How accurate is it?

Maybe I’m wrong because I know I know about the poison but it seems to me that Nick Bailey is portrayed as a bit thick.

He clearly knows something is wrong with and was called from work to checked out. I know it is common in fiction to have characters exposed to something to be trying to carry on as normal but in the real world wouldn’t you put two and together - or at least have the sense to have doctors check your wife and kids?

Need a Username

The wife is shown as thick too.

Thr story is all over the news and locals are complaining and these two seem to to be the only two unaware that something is going on.

I read a few months ago that Baily was suing the police. If this episode is accurately portraying events then he has no right to sue.