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chatchien

What I Saw: Broadchurch

Apr 28, 2013 00:02

Broadchurch is a British TV series. I saw Season 1, Episodes 1-8, I did miss parts of the second episode, but it really didn't matter in the overall viewing of the show. There might be a Season 2 coming up.

Broadchurch is a British procedural murder mystery that occurs in a town called Broadchurch which might be on the western coast of Great ( Read more... )

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brijeana April 28 2013, 15:35:11 UTC

I think a guy at work was watching this on his laptop the other day because I saw SAD David Tennant sitting on a bed talking to Olivia Colman. They both looked sad actually.

Your write up is wonderful! I cackled at your review of bad, frantic Hamlet portrayals. I've never seen Olivia Coleman in anything but now, because of your review, I want to get acquainted with her and her Queen Mum.

I'm hesitant to watch this show only because I watched that murder show on AMC what was it called? It was set in Maine or somewhere and it had a lovely lady detective with a teen son. THE KILLING. That's what it was called. It was so interesting and engaging but then it just lost me. Ah well.

It's A Tale Told By... chatchien April 28 2013, 18:29:38 UTC

You have probably seen more Hamlet portrayals than I have and up close too. There always seems to be some breaking point in the play where the Hamlet actor "struts and frets" and spits out his lines like a Kalishnikov on automatic because there are just too damn many of them and there are so much more to go.

I wonder if Shakespeare put that Play within a Play just to calm things down a bit. But it just makes it longer. I think that Fortinbras should show up in the third act and start secretly knifing extraneous characters. Then we could have a Murder Mystery within a Murder Mystery. "It all started with the Late King..."

Unlike The Killing, this show doesn't drag on forever and ever. It does wrap up tidily although it does follow the stories and departures from the town of at least two other suspects for the murder. But once their stories are told, they are gone and they don't come back. This one did keep my interest ( ... )