Broadchurch, UK Killing-style TV drama 04 March 2013

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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26572

    Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
    Rampling
    Always fun to have a bit of a Rample, though.... no?
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • Serial_Apologist
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 37814

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Always fun to have a bit of a Rample, though.... no?
      Not as much fun as Kipling...

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26572

        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
        Not as much fun as Kipling...
        We'd better not get on to Dickens...
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Always fun to have a bit of a Rample, though.... no?
          Scruptious ramplings!
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26572

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            Scruptious ramplings!
            Mr Memory Man!
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • Barbirollians
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 11752

              It is absolute nonsense . There are no solicitors involved at all in Broadchurch who of course choose the counsel they have to conduct the trial . The first episode suggested that nobody would want to act for the defendant - rubbish - murder briefs would have had the local criminal bar and London all fighting over it - the confession was excluded for nonsensical reasons . Then we have counsel for the prosecution summoning police officers to her house , without the CPS present m, to rant at them about OC attacking her husband and as for the poor parents of the victim inviting all the witnesses and counsel round for a pre-trial drink ….

              It is a shame as the first series was really gripping .

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30456

                Google Broadchurch and then hit the News tab ... :-)
                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26572

                  Originally posted by french frank View Post
                  Google Broadchurch and then hit the News tab ... :-)
                  Ouch.... Not great, is it? I'm minding less and less that I'm missing it all...
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • Richard Tarleton

                    Gave it one more try.

                    I'm trying to imagine the phone call from the agency. "You don't have to learn any lines. All you have to do is smile, eat some chips, have sex with Olivia Coleman and and grunt a lot".

                    sadface:

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                    • DracoM
                      Host
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 12986

                      From intriguing, well-plotted detective + drama in series 1, this has become a frenetic, over-plotted, poorly detailed mess. And what on EARTH Charlotte Rampling has added to the mix, I totally fail to see.

                      Now, every single character seems to have had a sub-plot annexed. Which tells me that the writers are under pressure to develop something closer to an American series for the US distribution, because what else is there to this series? Where#s the real steel in the central core plot? It's a black meringue. And if it was going to be about a court room drama, then you need a far more aggressive, hard-hitting prosecution counsel than thr wet spaghetti that Rampling is showing, and as for the Judge - how the hell she is letting the defence get away with it I fail to see. I wonder hos many JPs., magistrates, judges nationwide watching the series are gasping with incredulity.

                      They've stacked the cast with 'names' and the result is a complete script-farrago disaster shambles, and the original characters are just sitting in the court room spectating. They've emasculated and discredited the whole brand. .

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                      • Barbirollians
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 11752

                        It is a disaster - I am afraid smacks very much of writer pulled off brilliant series 1 so he has been allowed to run riot in series 2 without any proper research .

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                        • Anna

                          I agree totally with Draco, far too many subplots crammed into last night's episode. Rampling's character is obviously going blind (age related or brain tumour?) so will she, and therefore trial, collapse? What has the other barrister's son done that he has to serve another 6 years, how is this relevant to the original killing? So Claire is not now in witness protection but a suspect, what do we really know about Sandbrook? No, it's too much of a frantic mish-mash at the moment, and that's not mentioning the ludicrous portrayal of how the legal system actually operates.

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                            "You don't have to learn any lines. All you have to do is smile, eat some chips, have sex with Olivia Coleman and and grunt a lot".
                            Another job never mentioned at Careers Evenings!
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • teamsaint
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 25225

                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              Another job never mentioned at Careers Evenings!
                              bit of a sod if you don't like chips...
                              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26572

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                Another job never mentioned at Careers Evenings!


                                Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                                bit of a sod if you don't like chips...


                                Still beats work!
                                "...the isle is full of noises,
                                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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