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Broadchurch - British murder mystery similar to The Killing

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Anyone watch it? I checked it out not too long ago and thought it was pretty good. It's similar to The Killing but, in fact, even though The Killing had more of a Hollywood polish to it, I actually preferred Broadchurch.

It was remade for American audiences as the inferior Gracepoint. Don't watch that shit.

S1 of Broadchurch is currently on Netflix. The shows first and second seasons (with one final season to go) currently have an average of 88% on RT.


 
The first season was fantastic and the second season was good. I don't remember the details exactly but I just remember thinking the court scenes in season two seemed really unrealistic. I'm happy to hear that a third season has finally been confirmed.
 
DrBdan said:
The first season was fantastic and the second season was good. I don't remember the details exactly but I just remember thinking the court scenes in season two seemed really unrealistic. I'm happy to hear that a third season has finally been confirmed.
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Agreed. Excellent first season, pretty good second season.

According to Wiki, filming for third and final season began in May. It will be interesting to see what direction they go with it because the storyline from S1 is pretty neatly wrapped up by the end of S2.
 
I watched the first season. It was decent. I took a pass on the second one. Just didn't think they had anywhere to go.
 
odog said:
I watched the first season. It was decent. I took a pass on the second one. Just didn't think they had anywhere to go.
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No where to go?

By the end of the first season, there's no certainty as to who the killer is.
 
shadow_priest_x said:
No where to go?

By the end of the first season, there's no certainty as to who the killer is.
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Wasn't there certainty? I watched it a couple years ago, but I seem to remember it was the cop's husband. Am I remembering wrong?
 
odog said:
Wasn't there certainty? I watched it a couple years ago, but I seem to remember it was the cop's husband. Am I remembering wrong?
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Do you want me to spoil it for you? I'll just tell you if you don't think you'll ever go back.
 
First season awesome! But I can't get into the second season at all.
 
To be fair, there was no reason for a second season so it turned out pretty good considering it had no right to exist.

Now there's going to be s3? What sorcery is this?
 
odog said:
Spoil away.
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Joe (the husband) did kill Danny, but a big part of S2 is his trial and he's found Not Guilty. After the verdict is rendered, angry townspeople drive Joe out of the town and tell him to never come back. It's never quite clear until, if I remember right, the last ep of S2 that he really DID do it.Though I could be wrong about exactly when this was revealed for sure. In any case, we know but the town does not.

Meanwhile, while the court case is going on, we also learn more about why Alec (David Tennant's character) is so fucked in the head. If you remember, he was fucked up over a murder case that he didn't handle properly and that is why he had exiled himself to Broadchurch. Well that (and a few new characters) comes back into the picture in S2 and is finally resolved.

So S2 is basically two storylines: Joe's trial and Alec coming to terms with the past. It wasn't as good as S1 but I still enjoyed it overall.
 
shadow_priest_x said:
Anyone watch it? I checked it out not too long ago and thought it was pretty good. It's similar to The Killing but, in fact, even though The Killing had more of a Hollywood polish to it, I actually preferred Broadchurch.

It was remade for American audiences as the inferior Gracepoint. Don't watch that shit.

S1 of Broadchurch is currently on Netflix. The shows first and second seasons (with one final season to go) currently have an average of 88% on RT.


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It is superior to the Killing for me.
 
I liked it a lot at first. It had a nice athmosphere and setting, and a few actors I really like. Near the end of the season I realized I had taken a bit of a dislike to it, although I can't quit remember what irked me. It was probably unneccesary red herrings, a lack of verisimilitude and the annoying asshole-genius archertype that got to me, but I can't be too sure. I dropped it a few episodes into season 2. "The red herring of the week" was a lot stronger in The Killing, so I can totally see people liking Broadchurch more.

In a weird, roundabout way, Broadchurch led me to discover Happy Valley (another british crime series), which I thought was incredible, so I'll always be grateful for that.

Go watch Happy Valley.
 
shadow_priest_x said:
The second season is a mild letdown after the masterful first season but I'd still give it a solid 7/10.
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To me the second season is so frustrating because the dude was just a weasel trying to stay out of prison and it just makes me fucking rate defense lawyers as the scum of the earth.
 
Irenaeus said:
In a weird, roundabout way, Broadchurch led me to discover Happy Valley (another British crime series), which I thought was incredible, so I'll always be grateful for that.

Go watch Happy Valley.
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I've almost started this one a couple of times. Maybe I should go ahead and give it a look.
 
heavyarms21 said:
To me the second season is so frustrating because the dude was just a weasel trying to stay out of prison and it just makes me fucking rate defense lawyers as the scum of the earth.
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Everyone deserves a defense.

What I think is worse are over-eager prosecutors who don't concern themselves with whether or not the person they're prosecuting is innocent or guilty and who are willing to twist the evidence to win the case, and it all happens under the guise of "doing their job." That shit is diabolical.
 
Broadchurch was brilliant!

*goes to look up Happy Valley*
 
shadow_priest_x said:
Everyone deserves a defense.

What I think is worse are over-eager prosecutors who don't concern themselves with whether or not the person they're prosecuting is innocent or guilty and who are willing to twist the evidence to win the case, and it all happens under the guise of "doing their job." That shit is diabolical.
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It's both terrible , the guy that knows in confidence if a guy is a murder or child rapist manipulating the system to victimize a witness and the Prosecutor that needs a scapegoat or a quick case that overlooks details that send innocent men/women to prison .
 
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