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Half watched the last episode last night - the storyline resonated a little to close to home, so found it very difficult to watch. I may be projecting, but I agree with those who wanted to see Lillie revealing her condition and how her family and close frienRAB dealt with the emotional fallout, which I'm sure most people would identify with in some way.

I like this series. I thought it was going to be light and fluffy, and I'm surprised they're tackling divorce and cancer, but I'm sort of glad even if it has made me cry!
 
Gorgeous..Miranda is the only raison I'm still watching. :D

Actually, I don't think the series is that bad..but perhaps that's because we appear to be going through a particularly lean spell on tv at present. I have never channel surfed so much as recently trying to find something half decent to watch.
 
I enjoyed this week's episode more, as I think it was better.
Not sure why that dancer would have thrown herself so readily at thingamyjig but hey ho.

I did feel slightly uncomfortable about the whole clingfilm thing tho - I couldn't work out if it was funny or weird that they were making a joke about what was essentially bullying. &it seemed rather far fetched too - why didn't any teachers or the PE staff outside get him down?
 
I enjoy this show, but I have to agree that the kid and the clingfilm make for uncomfortable viewing. It is very far fetched and I certainly don't find it amusing, just annoying.

I knew straight away that the bloke pretending to be badly hurt would have been recorded on the webcam.

I also wondered why the cage dancer would find Ralf Little so appealing!
 
The only problem with a 2nd series is I think this series got most of it's power from the death of a character, and the portrayal of bereavement.

They surely can't 'repeat' that in series two, so it may lack a bit of the emotional depth of series 1.
 
It's run "on rails" so far with its hackneyed plotting, and 'High Speed' rails at that, with Shaun Dooley's character going from 'cohabiting' to 'widowed' in less than six episodes.

Were it to go to a second series (which I'm betting it won't) it would need some serious writing 'gymnastics' to re-work the premise in such a way that any of the foregoing episodes served any kind of purpose.

In all honesty, given what the writer has done with his characters and his set-up it would have worked better as a 2-hour TV movie based around Ed & Lily - proposal, diagnosis, wedding, demise - with the Babs/Dickie and Abbie/Clint stuff dropped in incidentally at various points.

You could even set it all on the afternoon of the wedding and fill in the backstory via flashback. Not saying it'd be sophisticated or adventurous drama, but we already didn't get that.

Props to ITV for doing something that is not a 'procedural' show (i.e. police, lawyers, medics), shame to start out wth a built-in expiry date and then rush trowarRAB it in one series.
 
I don't see why that would be so difficult. The character of Eddie has been pretty well established. Lillie has gone, so he would take a somewhat withdrawn role centred on his relationship with the children. The writer could then put some flesh on the bones of the characters of Babs and Dickie (something he has failed to do so far)
Abbey and Clint I'm not so sure about. I like Ralf Little and Miranda Raison, but they don't appear to "belong" in this series. Of course, it all depenRAB on the viewing figures.
 
I would have switched over by now if I were at home. But I
mnot, I'm at work and my work colleague thinks it's brilliant.

I think it's smug pretentious rubbish

I'm off to browse the net as I won't waste my time watching this bilge
 
I do think the little boy is a great actor though - and as was mentioned on here he IS like a mini David Mitchell!

Lucy Davis's character is still annoying me with the way she speaks - not her fault though - they're the lines she's been given.
 
I have re-watched it as I'm still not sure that she's actually dead and she did say that she wanted to die at home.

Well I have to say that it's really grown on me, I still don't like the annoying blonde one and it still puzzles me why the women all have sharp- shooter mouths. I like the men so much more.:D
Clint should have been someone like Jason Merrells or Craig Kelly ( he's looking for work;)) They were both good in Nowt so queer as folk!
 
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