Broadchurch, UK Killing-style TV drama 04 March 2013

[Anna]

I am in turn bemused that you take eighthobstruction so seriously, Anna!

No, I don't take eighthobstruction seriously re skinniess but I do take his obsession with pork pies seriously! He's just made a remark on the Pope Resigns thread about them which made me laugh out loud as it was so wonderfully witty!

[eighthobstruction]

We are here to serve....< well I am anyway>....just oiling the wheels during another day on planet earth....

[Deckerd]

I watched it and was entertained to the end, although I found the subject matter quite hard to take. David Tennant is very good in the part but then I'm a fan.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yep Mayland was awful ...

first episode of Broadchurch passable but might not have legs to carry it over eight weeks ... vary narrow range of community types and Fleet St bitch etc etc

[Nick Armstrong]

Shame about Tennant though. He shot his bolt in 'Twenty-Twelve' for me, I can't take anything in that voice seriously now.

I've watched the first part and I take it back. Give him a few days' beard growth and a rôle that requires him to be taciturn, lugubrious and gruff - like this one - and it works, even now. And he and Olivia Coleman worked well together - slightly chichéd antipathy to start with but subtle mutual regard developing. And the programme overall gripped, I thought, by the end - the moment when the dead lad's best friend (and Olivia C's 'son') started deleting texts and emails just after hearing his friend had died was a shocking moment. It galvanised the programme, followed .

I shall be following it.

[Serial_Apologist]

I've watched the first part and I take it back. Give him a few days' beard growth and a rôle that requires him to be taciturn, lugubrious and gruff - like this one - and it works, even now. And he and Olivia Coleman worked well together - slightly chichéd antipathy to start with but subtle mutual regard developing. And the programme overall gripped, I thought, by the end - the moment when the dead lad's best friend (and Olivia C's 'son') started deleting texts and emails just after hearing his friend had died was a shocking moment. It galvanised the programme, followed .

I shall be following it.

Am I right in thinking deleted texts can be retrieved, if needs be?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

almost certainly ....

and the Tennant character offers a hostage to fortune when he avers that they will get the killer ..... far more promising than Mayday ...

[i have just watched Complicit .. was there a thread? ... and found it an almost complete waste of time, longuers for a tired theme and another tricksy jihadist 30 minutes would have done but not nearly two hours]

[Nick Armstrong]

Am I right in thinking deleted texts can be retrieved, if needs be?

Think so, why?

[DracoM]

But did we get hints as to what the kid was deleting and / or why? My fault - I was only half watching. Can anyone help?

[Flay]

I enjoyed it, and am drawn to watching the rest of the series.

Especially to see Jodie Whittaker who is scruptious

[Flay]

But did we get hints as to what the kid was deleting and / or why? My fault - I was only half watching. Can anyone help?

No there was no indication of the contents. You will have to carry on watching.

[amateur51]

I enjoyed it, and am drawn to watching the rest of the series.

Especially to see Jodie Whittaker who is scruptious

I'll have to take your word for that, Flay

[Flay]

I'll have to take your word for that, Flay

Mmmmm. I must have been gobbling the word up as I typed.

[Serial_Apologist]

Think so, why?

Just needed to know, thassall...

[Flay]

Like emails I doubt if texts are considered to be our personal property. I do not think they are ever really deleted from the various servers. I know that a colleague who had an ill-advised liaison with a patient had copies of all his somewhat sordid text messages produced when the patient decided to sue. So be warned!