"What Remains"... good creepy stuff but other TV series are available !!!

[edashtav]

You're a practical man, mangey!




I've now caught up with Ep. 2... I was slightly less enthralled ...
But I liked the juxtaposition of the house-warming with David Threlfall's failed attempt at neighbourly sociability with his bottle of whisky, and the rather predatory son of the journalist was very convincing and unsettling
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Threlfall's character is being subtly strengthened whilst those of the "suspects" are being traduced. It remains very watchable.

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes I thought Vera 2 was much better and we do moody rather well up here Rumpole ......not Lady Gould of course.....

Shrewd insurance policy against Her Ladyship's browsing eye...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

'Doc Martin's back;

I was quite looking forward to this - sadly. it was a real let-down: a feebly written, cliché-ridden waste of some fine acting talent.

[mangerton]

As an OT adjunct, since they seem twinned, I thought the second episode of 'Vera' much better than the first. They let the director of photography have his head with some great moody panoramas of the north-east towards the end... !

I'll watch Vera 2 tomorrow or Friday. Choir practice tonight.

Thoughts of mangerton writ small:Looks for suitable singing icon...... fails to find one. We'll need to get some musical icons. At work - no time to look now.

[Anna]

I was quite looking forward to this - sadly. it was a real let-down: a feebly written, cliché-ridden waste of some fine acting talent.

I watched both episodes - only having seen repeats from early series - rubbish I thought, Dr, is merely a caricature and others dance around him, being dimly comic
Am watching Guilty - too much ersatz Broadchurch.
Didn't watch The Pesky Blighters - seems to have good reviews? Somehow gangsters with a Birmingham accent doesn't seem right - guess it was written for the American market, what with the Irish Fenian elements and a US actor starring?
What Remains. Dunno We shall see tomorrow.

[amateur51]

What are they, when they're at home (or indeed elsewhere)? Did you mean les biens?(!)...

[amateur51]

They let the director of photography have his head with some great moody panoramas of the north-east towards the end... !

Moody? Is that a fracking Howellian synonym for 'desolate'?

[amateur51]

I was quite looking forward to this - sadly. it was a real let-down: a feebly written, cliché-ridden waste of some fine acting talent.

Bother!

Is Stephanie Cole still doing her bit for plaid shirts?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I watched both episodes - only having seen repeats from early series - rubbish I thought, Dr, is merely a caricature and others dance around him, being dimly comic

I agree; the previous series have had a certain charm which made them watchable, but the worst aspects of the concept that you mention have been lazily exaggerated and the charm jettisoned.

Am watching Guilty - too much ersatz Broadchurch.

Yes, we didn't bother with episode two for this reason - the story in episode one wasn't gripping enough to make it unmissable.

On the other hand, the past couple of episodes of Vera were very well plotted and performed, with good characterization (the pathologist setting Vera's ringtone to We'll meet again on his mobile 'phone, and then later we saw him slumped in depression, left on his own).

And the new batch of New Tricks is a vast improvement on a series that had become formulaic - James Bolam's criticisms when he left seem to have struck a chord with the writers.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Is Stephanie Cole still doing her bit for plaid shirts?

Her character was killed off a couple of series ago - replaced by another relative with the same character quirks

[amateur51]

Her character was killed off a couple of series ago - replaced by another relative with the same character quirks

Bugler! I missed that then. Apologies

[Nick Armstrong]

Bugler! I missed that then. Apologies

I thought I'd missed an episode of 'What Remains' where Stephanie Cole was callously slaughtered

Are you talking about that Cornish vehicle for Clunes Jr.?

[amateur51]

I thought I'd missed an episode of 'What Remains' where Stephanie Cole was callously slaughtered

Are you talking about that Cornish vehicle for Clunes Jr.?

We are that, Caliban

[Nick Armstrong]

We are that, Caliban

The odd trailer I've caught made it look insufferably twee and I must say I've successfully avoided it like the plague!!

Have you watched 'What Remains' ? Last one tomorrow!

[amateur51]

The odd trailer I've caught made it look insufferably twee and I must say I've successfully avoided it like the plague!!

Have you watched 'What Remains' ? Last one tomorrow!

Hope to start epi 2 tonight if an early night doesn't claim me first