no amount of shirtless James D'Arcy could distract from that
But boy, did they ever try. I think 90% of cinematography for this season was blurry bokeh shots of the bluebell clearing and of D'Arcy in a wifebeater, probably cut from his Poldark demo reel.
I really enjoyed season one, although I at the midway point guessed the culprit because it felt like that's how the twist would go (have you ever seen Harper's Island? I was a young and non-trope savvy person back then and it fucked me up, now I don't often get mislead, HAH). Season two was a single exercise in frustration (also because I watched it as it aired rather than back-to-back with season one). Season one had gotten me decently interested in the whole Sandbrook case, but everyone involved in it was SUCH A TERRIBLE PERSON I just. Ran out of anything ressembling investment two episodes in. Hardy should just have left these people in their toxic ass relationship alone, goodbye. Also, there were just SO MANY SUBPLOTS. The ex-wife and the cheating, the bratty teenage daughter, heart surgery, people being mad at the vicar for doing his job, implied backstory of the lawyer's son, implied backstory for the prosecutor and the journalist.... and nothing really got resolved. It was so much, they couldn't even fit all of it in the show, proper - you could watch bonus clips on their facebook (rivetting bits such as a conversation between the lawyers).
They definitely could tell S2 didn't fare as well, because as you were rightly informed - the lawyer, lawyer son, and prosecutor subplots are all just. Completely ignored in S3. The case in S3 is also entirely stand-alone, it feels much more like a "normal" procedural (but it's again one case per season). I didn't dislike it as much as S2 which was just too much all in all, but it also was a bit eh overall.
Also, I never went back to rewatch S1, but I thought I remembered that it hinted at Hardy having some possibly traumatic childhood memories relating to Broadchurch? All these flashbacks to him as a boy at the beach with some girl (?). Was I making those up or was that something that just. Also was dropped and never addressed again.
I thought I remembered that it hinted at Hardy having some possibly traumatic childhood memories relating to Broadchurch? I feel I remember that but then I also feel that most crime-shows have at one point a flashback scene to the MC's childhood that has been run through every single Instagram filter. Or perhaps I am imagining that because I watched too much of Der Adler which consisted of 50% Instagram flashbacks, 20% Therapy sessions, 20% homoerotic scenes between the MC and the evil crime lord and 5% issues of the rest of the team and 5% actual crime-solving. Ah...memories.
Currently I paused my Netflix to fully focus on the trash I can watch on Prime but I think once I have it back I might give S3 a try just because...I like both actors and it's not like I haven't watched much worse for actors I like XD
Oh, the problem of overconsumption a certain genre. This has never happened to me. Ever. I swear I can tell all the sakura swooshing gently through the wind scenes apart, thankyouverymuch.
My mother read the novelisation of the screenplay at the same time as I watched the show, by pure coincidence, and she thought she remembered something similar - but maybe we're both just going slowly insane. Who's to say.
But boy, did they ever try. I think 90% of cinematography for this season was blurry bokeh shots of the bluebell clearing and of D'Arcy in a wifebeater, probably cut from his Poldark demo reel.
I really enjoyed season one, although I at the midway point guessed the culprit because it felt like that's how the twist would go (have you ever seen Harper's Island? I was a young and non-trope savvy person back then and it fucked me up, now I don't often get mislead, HAH). Season two was a single exercise in frustration (also because I watched it as it aired rather than back-to-back with season one). Season one had gotten me decently interested in the whole Sandbrook case, but everyone involved in it was SUCH A TERRIBLE PERSON I just. Ran out of anything ressembling investment two episodes in. Hardy should just have left these people in their toxic ass relationship alone, goodbye. Also, there were just SO MANY SUBPLOTS. The ex-wife and the cheating, the bratty teenage daughter, heart surgery, people being mad at the vicar for doing his job, implied backstory of the lawyer's son, implied backstory for the prosecutor and the journalist.... and nothing really got resolved. It was so much, they couldn't even fit all of it in the show, proper - you could watch bonus clips on their facebook (rivetting bits such as a conversation between the lawyers).
They definitely could tell S2 didn't fare as well, because as you were rightly informed - the lawyer, lawyer son, and prosecutor subplots are all just. Completely ignored in S3. The case in S3 is also entirely stand-alone, it feels much more like a "normal" procedural (but it's again one case per season). I didn't dislike it as much as S2 which was just too much all in all, but it also was a bit eh overall.
Also, I never went back to rewatch S1, but I thought I remembered that it hinted at Hardy having some possibly traumatic childhood memories relating to Broadchurch? All these flashbacks to him as a boy at the beach with some girl (?). Was I making those up or was that something that just. Also was dropped and never addressed again.
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I feel I remember that but then I also feel that most crime-shows have at one point a flashback scene to the MC's childhood that has been run through every single Instagram filter. Or perhaps I am imagining that because I watched too much of Der Adler which consisted of 50% Instagram flashbacks, 20% Therapy sessions, 20% homoerotic scenes between the MC and the evil crime lord and 5% issues of the rest of the team and 5% actual crime-solving.
Ah...memories.
Currently I paused my Netflix to fully focus on the trash I can watch on Prime but I think once I have it back I might give S3 a try just because...I like both actors and it's not like I haven't watched much worse for actors I like XD
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My mother read the novelisation of the screenplay at the same time as I watched the show, by pure coincidence, and she thought she remembered something similar - but maybe we're both just going slowly insane. Who's to say.
Fair enough XD
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