Mayday v Broadchurch

been following Mayday since it started - it's OK but not the best drama series around of recent times.  quite gripping and, as you say, lots of red herrings and seeming dead ends, and some very very strange characters.

in fact I have no real idea wtf is going on!!

Taped Broadchurch, and haven't watched it yet...

Been watching Mayday... When it finished last night Suzie asked me if I thought we had even seen the real killer yet ???

Has to be the most disfunctional village I have ever seen, Do the residents committe reject prospective buyers for being norma ?

I think Seth is the sanest person there

you could be right about Seth - on the surface, loopy as fuck, but quite sane underneath.

I have my doubts about lots of them but Malcolm and Gail's son (name??) is on my watch list - he's quiet but has a creepy air about him

fat buddha wrote (see)

been following Mayday since it started - it's OK but not the best drama series around of recent times.  quite gripping and, as you say, lots of red herrings and seeming dead ends, and some very very strange characters.

in fact I have no real idea wtf is going on!!

 

What's going on is, a twin who was to have been the village may-queen (?) has gone missing. Is she dead? (No body has yet been found, she's simply a missing person.)

Her school locker had stuff in it that suggested she might have run away, not been killed.

IF she's been killed, the BBC have given us a range of suspects, so we are invited to decide for ourselves who the guilty party is, eg:

• the property developer who has now hanged himself (the missing girl having been a thorn in his side) and whose widow and son are now being persecuted by some of the local community;
• the next door neighbour ("NDN") or possibly his son, though the son doesn't seem very likely;
• Steve or his idiot brother;
• the policeman husband who had blood on his shirt which his wife washed off;
• any other member of the cast you'd care to mention.

I've watched the first three episodes of this five-parter and thought it was very well done.

Enjoyed the first episode of Broadchurch, but there are some common themes seen in current tv dramas

- the detective with a 'past'  - cue flashbacks and fuzzy moments

- his popular sidekick who wanted the top job - cue some rivalry

- the reporter from London who has already stolen a teddy bear from the memorial

(boo hiss etc)

I do like the family/close friend twists in the town i.e. the local reporter/dead lad's best friend both related to the female detective

...and unless he was Phillips Idowu he didn't fall from that cliff

C McL - do you understand the meaning of the word irony??  

Yes, but it's hard to detect in a non-vocal post.

You make a statement, you intend the opposite, who's to know?

I reckon Linus will have killed Hattie, possibly with a little help from Seth.

nah - my money's on the one you least expect - Steve

or maybe someone else....

nice twist at the end I thought and lots of unanswered questions

what happened to Seth after he was beaten up by Hattie's father?  what's happening to Gail?  etc

perhaps a Mayday2 to explore some of these??