Mercyseat

Pfk505 I agree and this is the frustration. With such a good cast, why couldn't they have made at least a tiny effort to make this different or individualise it? They must have been filming for a while and it can't have been a cheap production. Sounds as though they basically used the same shooting script and just tweaked it slightly. No one who saw the original is going to want to devote ten weeks to see the exact same thing for the benefit of a couple of new scenes. Anyway, sorry for the rant but the greed and stupidity of the producers is so frustrating in ruining what might have been an interesting take. Not going to waste my time on this but won't be too surprised if this is shelved before it gets to episode four. And David Tennant will be absolutely demolished by the British press for this failure.

The whole thing is a complete word for word and scene for scene remake. This has been confirmed by critics who have seen the first seven episodes. FOX lied about it deviating after episode 3 so they are probably also lying that the killer will be different. I am letting people know this is the case as the publicity is very misleading. Anyway, you can see from the trailers and case files FOX are putting out on their YouTube channel that it is an exact remake. You can literally see the exact and I mean exact same direction of the cast member in the Gracepoint scene compared to the Broadchurch scene. There has been no attempt to stamp any kind of originality on this project. Expect this to be get an absolute lashing from critics. The failure of the show will finally kill of Tennant's efforts to launch a US career but doubt it will harm any of the bigger names but I do feel sorry for the first timers or younger actors who thought this project might act as an elevator for their careers. Wonder how soon before they realised that they had been duped. Sorry to sound so bitter but the cynicism of this entire project is astounding. I had liked David Tennant before, but his casting and the diffident way he appears to be playing the part (and the lack of preparation of his American accent) just smacks of easy bucks to me.

This is great!! I generally like British police shows and mysteries and I liked this more than Broadchurch, which I also thought was pretty good until the last episode anyway. Sarah Lancashire is brilliant.

This is so disappointing. I had hoped that they would make the story diiferent but from the snippets we've seen, every bit is word for word and beat for beat: Ellie's son deleting his computer files, Ellie asking Hardy/Carver to call her by her first name, the hotel owner chastising someone in her bar about being more worried about losing business than the death of the boy, Hardy/Carver awkwardly propositioning the hotel owner.....I could go on. I was excited to see that Matt Roush was giving his first impressions after seeing the first seven episodes last week as FOX claimed that the plot veered away from Broadchurch after episode three. Roush confirmed my worst fears that all seven episodes were exactly the same as Broadchurch down to the beats in the character's speech and the few tiny changes to the plot were all for the worse. The only positive thing was that Virginia Krull was good but apparently David Tennant fails to bring Hardy/Carver to life and his slips in the accent distract too much from performance which Roush thought was poor and unconvincing. FOX really deserve this to fail try and what a waste of such good talent. Boo FOX, boo. I suggest getting the box set of Broadchurch 2 when it comes out and give this a miss!