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  • jean
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 7100

    'Apple Tree Yard' BBC1

    Is anyone watching?
  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163

    #2
    I saw the first episode up to the rape scene - I hadn't particularly been impressed up to that point (do people really behave like that?! - even if they do, I'm not interested unless the characters involved have something more appealing to go for them) and I don't have any wish to see rape presented - and certainly not in this sort of context (as a plot device to add "interest" to an otherwise indifferent drama). So I haven't bothered with it since.
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • pastoralguy
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 7739

      #3
      We've been watching it and have enjoyed it although Mrs. PG found the rape scene difficult. ( I thought the fading in and out made the point without being overly gratuitous). I think the point is that the Emily Watson character is acting totally against her normal behaviour and she's finding it both frightening and exhilarating. There are a few odd aspects in as much as she seems oddly incurious about her lover's name.

      According to the Radio Times blurb there's an unexpected 'sting in the tail'. Can't wait.

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      • jean
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 7100

        #4
        I'm finding it quite disturbing, but I have to find out what happens now.

        What puzzles me is why the partner in a situation very like that of Erica Jong's heroine seems to care about her so much. I'd have expected him to disappear at that point. Will it turn out that it was he who set up the rape?

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        Last edited by jean; 07-02-17, 10:22. Reason: Providing context for the 'bad language'

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        • cloughie
          Full Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 22115

          #5
          Originally posted by jean View Post
          I'm finding it quite disturbing, but I have to find out what happens now.

          What puzzles me is why the partner in the [Edited] seems to care about her so much. I'd have expected him to disappear at that point. Will it turn out that it was he who set up the rape?
          Mrs C doesn't like the series - too violent - so I'll have two episodes to watch after this evening - so don't tell me what happens!
          Last edited by french frank; 07-02-17, 09:50. Reason: 'Bad language' complaint

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          • pastoralguy
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 7739

            #6
            Very interesting developments! Well worth watching.

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            • Conchis
              Banned
              • Jun 2014
              • 2396

              #7
              Just watched the first episode on i-player and I'm hooked! :)

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              • pastoralguy
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 7739

                #8
                Very good ending.

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                • jean
                  Late member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 7100

                  #9
                  Very well done throughout, I though.

                  But I was not entirely convinced by the ending - when can we talk about that?

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                  • pastoralguy
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 7739

                    #10
                    Originally posted by jean View Post
                    Very well done throughout, I though.

                    But I was not entirely convinced by the ending - when can we talk about that?
                    I wondered about that too!

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                    • pastoralguy
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 7739

                      #11
                      SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT KEEP READING IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW IT ENDS,!!!

                      That should do it.

                      So she DID ask Costley to kill her rapist. The twist, for me, was she wasn't as important a scientist as she had led Costley, and therefore us, to believe she was.

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                      • jean
                        Late member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 7100

                        #12
                        I thought the twist was that she did ask him - but that she wasn't serious (she laughed as she said it) And the fact that he misinterpreted her showed that he really did have a 'high-functioning personality disorder'.

                        But I didn't believe that if she was as distressed by the rape and the stalking as we fully believed she was, she would not have joked in that way. The thought of Henry II would have stopped her in her tracks. And I think if we'd seen her say it at the point in th narrative when it happened,it would have jarred.

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                        • jean
                          Late member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 7100

                          #13
                          Some reviewers think she really did mean it when she asked Costley to kill her rapist. But if that were the case, why was she surprised when he did?

                          Some think his telling his counsel of their affair really was the betrayal it seemed, rather than absolved by the explanation he gave in the final scene.

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