Just saw the Broadchurch finale!

[dbskyler]

IT WASN'T RORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cue the big sigh of relief.

(Yes, I know it's just a TV show, and Doctor Who is just a TV show, and both Rory and Paul Coates are fictional characters, and it shouldn't matter if the murderer was played by Arthur Darvill or not . . . but I'm still oddly relieved. If nothing else, now I can imagine that Paul Coates was actually Rory in some undercover alien investigation, and when he "passed the word" to create lights along the coast, he just told the Doctor to go make it happen. *g*)

I have to confess that I didn't guess the murderer at all. He wasn't even on my radar as a possible suspect. Maybe because I don't watch enough murder mysteries? The revelation did seem a little like "the butler did it" -- find the person you least suspect, and that's the murderer. But the aftermath part was really well done.

Sigh; not sure now what I'm going to do now for good British TV. Is it November 23rd yet?

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[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Heh...

I didn't suspect the murderer either - and I know lots of people didn't...

Now, aren't you glad I recommended it so insistently?


If you want good TV, and more murder mystery stuff, I strongly recommend ITV's 'Endeavour' - the tales of young Endeavour Morse before he became Inspector Morse (it's set in 1965). There are 5 episodes so far - a pilot, and then a four episode series.

Shaun Evans is wonderful as Morse, there's a young Strange (the guy who eventually becomes Morse's boss in the Morse series), and Roger Allam is awesome as Endeavour's boss, Fred Thursday.

And the good news is there's going to be a second series.

(Or you might try The Bletchley Cirle, a 3-part series set post-WW2, featuring four women who worked at Bletchley, helping to win the War - the women solve a serial killer case; or there's Foyle's War with Michael Kitchen and Honeysuckle Weeks, set during WW2 - there are EIGHT series of that one!)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you for recommending it!

I'm not specifically looking for more murder mystery stuff -- in fact, I don't usually like murder mysteries. But you have very good taste in television, so I'll have to look into your recommendations. : )

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

Well, look at them as recommendations for good British, character-led TV that features strong stories. They're making more of The Bletchley Circle (2 * 2-part stories this time) - which left me overjoyed!

I confess, though, I'm a big fan of the murder-mystery genre in both book and TV format, so I would probably send you scurrying for cover if I mentioned every British favourite of mine!

[clocketpatch]

I accidentally spoiled myself for who the murderer was two episodes in, and after that I couldn't stop looking at him suspiciously and going, "No! That's the wrong bald person!" when they were all hounding the plumber man with the disturbing family background.