Broadchurch
- Release date:4 March 2013 (USA)
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- Summary:"Broadchurch" is a crime drama series starring David Tennant, Olivia Colman and Pauline Quirke. DI Alec Hardy is an out-of-town, newly promoted police detective who takes the job local girl DS Ellie Miller believes should have been hers. Danny Latimer has been discovered dead on an beach surrounded by rocks and a jutting cliff-face from where he may have fallen. The seaside town of Broadchurch becomes the centre of a major police investigation and a national media frenzy. [+]more
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This is a GREAT crime-drama show. I enjoy it a lot: the acting, the landscapes, the plot! I really enjoy watching UK tv shows. Thanks for the recommendation of top of the lake, 12sharu95.
24 days ago -
@horato - same here, I either stumbled upon this or I found it by looking at annacolleen's list of favorites (I've enjoyed some GREAT shows by trusting her good taste!) - can't remember which due to severe memory damage. I have so been enjoying the opportunities to watch shows made outside the USA (nothing wrong with ours, it's just a nice change of pace & more variety).
25 days ago
If anyone is interested in a miniseries made in New Zealand, it's also a drama, but very dark & it does involve children as victims. "Top of the Lake" is only 7 episodes, but masterfully written to really pack an emotional wallop into those few episodes!
@BGSolo: thanks for correcting the statements made by Strangebird, almost sounds as if you have on the scene experience? Although I will disagree with your last statement for 2 really simple reasons. I think that you know there are classes given on interrogation techniques that are all about using nothing but your powers of observation - many of these classes are given at different police academies, some sponsored by DOJ, FBI and other law enforcement agencies. If "human instinct/observations" were deemed unreliable as testimony or evidence, it seems unlikely that there would be so many classes teaching the skills & proven techniques. Many of the observations that you base your techniques upon are founded on well-documented and researched statistics and there's where you get to bring your documents to court if they are requested, along with your documentation of training and successful use of your skills in closing cases.
The second can be summed up in that old proverb, "the proof is in the pudding." If your "pudding" sets up successfully the majority of times - meaning: you interrogate involved parties using your skills of observation and based at least partly upon information obtained during those interviews, you continue to obtain more and more evidence leading to a successful closure of the case, then it's pretty difficult for anyone to continue to ignore the benefits of using a well trained and experienced interrogator.
Also, @BGSolo: your description of this show is excellent! They need to hire you & a handful of others like you to write descriptions for these shows. If all I had to go on was your description for this show - I would have been sold! It's so nice to see folks who actually know how to write setting such a nice example out here. When I read some of the comments, I can see that some have some great ideas, very imaginative & original, but it's so very difficult to take the time to translate what they consider to be English and get it so that most of what they've written makes sense. I used to wonder what some of the goof offs were going to become, back in the dark ages when I was in school. Now I see and it's so sad. Some of the easiest rules to follow so that they could communicate more clearly and they decided to blow them off. The problems that exist due to their foolishness are real and could be resolved so easily if these people could be made to understand what their part in the problem really is. I've had disagreements with people where they became very, very angry and I was left confused & resentful only to figure out later that it was all because they misunderstood the meaning of what I considered to be a rather common word. Then it was resolved just by sending a copy of the appropriate dictionary page with an apology on my part for not recognizing the confusion sooner and a request for them to contact me once they could see where the misunderstanding had stemmed from.
Oh well, just one more item on the list of things that need repaired when the proper people are ruling the world - tee hee hee! -
This brilliant series will get a second season!
27 days ago -
Yes, I totally agree 'bout the lie detector. All I'm saying is ,at least, it's so here in US(specially since Susan Smith) murder investiations begin within the circle of family and then moves out. Tiny hamlet notwithstanding, it took several days to check Dad out that could have been dealt with immediately so they could move ahead. Sorry, but if my child has been abducted or murdered, I'm going to say to police what can I do to help in anyway I can, yes, my daughter and I fought, or I've been having an affair, anything to get them to look for the actual suspect.
2 months ago -
Strangebird, haven't you been watching the show? This is a small town, with a small police force. This is also the first murder they've had. They weren't geared up for this. They explain in the show that the reason everything has been taking so long to get started is because they didn't have the equipment, or staff to do it. In episode three you see them finally getting set up for it, and they finally get around to starting to back check alibis.
2 months ago
Also, "lie detectors" or polygraph machines, are kind of... um... fake. All a polygraph does is subjectively show if someone is under stress (or if they have gas). So, while lying can sometimes be a stressful thing, it may turn up on a polygraph test. However, a polygraph is mostly subjective, and can mean pretty much anything the person running the polygraph wants it to mean. Also, there are a myriad number of ways to both fool and mess up a polygraph. All modern studies of the machine have proven it to be completely unreliable for testing if someone is lying or telling the truth. The human eye usually does a better job, and a trained interrogator is far better at telling if someone is lying than the polygraph. The only reason people like the darn things so much is because it sounds sexy. The polygraph prints out neat little sheets of paper that people can point to and say, "Hey, this is a lie, and this is the truth!", while a trained interrogator only spits out old coffee, and sometimes not even that. You can take a document to court, but a human being's instinct doesn't really stand up in court. -
Yes, it's pert good, quite reminescent of "The Killing". Just a bit too slow, I mean wouldn't the police check immediate family members alibis straight away? I know you have to be sensitive but if I was a parent, I would be like please check me out and give lie detector and everything as soon as, so the cops can get on to the real culprit. They're going to find out all the dirty laundry anyway, just lay it out there and go on. Am I wrong?
2 months ago -
I love this show so much! Every episode is better than the last.
2 months ago
I love the tension of the show. Not the cheap thriller, 'what's that in the dark corner', kind of tension, but the dramatic emotional tension of the show is just so pervasive, and so well done. It's ever-present, and so thick you can almost cut it with a knife. It's an emotional soup of grief, terror, confusion, and uncertainty. It's down right delicious! -
I'm hooked. I love drama from the UK.
2 months ago -
Found this by accident; I really hope it's as great as it seems.
2 months ago -
It's British Twin Peaks, except better. I think this is gonna be a good one.
2 months ago
Also, it's just filthy with old Dr. Who cast members.