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I'm really hoping that the folks who posted above are right and that the show gets better as it goes forward. Do NOT like the new "Ma'am" and if Sunny is this agonized and angry over Cassie's death at this point in time, he needs some serious therapy. There are so many possible suspects (or people who had a connection to the victim). Am I mistaken in thinking that the bit of hair that was on the body looks like a black person's hair? If so, I'm thinking that the victim has some sort of family relationship with the nasty restaurant woman. The two heroin addicts would have been children around the time of the victim's death - I wonder if one (or both) witnessed something terrible (and thus the drug addiction). The old guy who has cancer might be the victim's father or maybe a much older lover. The French guy - no clue how he is part of this. And Hayley Mills is in this? I wonder if anybody under 60 knows who she is - And even though we saw her for like 10 seconds, I'll say she is the murderer - LOL.

Ok, for the handful of us that seem to watch this show, I started reading the Chris Bledsoe book "UFO of God" and am finding it to be a real page turner. If this guy is the real deal (and credible people seem to think that he is), he is 1) The modern version of Job, and 2) is definitely some kind of Contactee, but more in the form of pre 1960s version. He doesn't seem to be dealing with the standard issue "greys" or "praying mantis" types of aliens. His "aliens" (or should I say "Angels", because this is what he feels they are) have glowing red eyes, are translucent in appearance, and seem not to operate with our usual constraints of physical space. He also had a couple of command meet ups with a beautiful blond woman whom he calls "The Lady". She seems to be the leader or the being in charge of what is happening to Chris Bledsoe. His experience with this being made me think of the visions of The Blessed Virgin at Fatima in 1917. Among messages given to him by "The Lady" was one given in in a couple of sentences of prose that reads like a line from a Byron poem that Bledsoe takes to mean that something eye-opening is going to happen around Easter in 2026. If this forum and all of us are still here then, we can comment to whether this prophecy is correct (or not). As of this writing, I haven't finished reading the book (and I actually have read about half of it and have just skimmed parts of the last half). I've read many, many, many (yep a whole bunch) of abductee stories over the past 55 years and a large number of them say that these aliens/angels/pick-a-name tell them that unless humans change their ways, the world as we know it is going to be an unpleasant place to live (ecological destruction, famine, war, fire, floods) in the near future, and that what the Universe is really about is "Love" and that all living beings have a place of importance here. Unfortunately, as a person who reads the papers, I think they will have to land on the White House and Kremlin lawns before they can make a difference, but one can hope. Read the book.

Sempervivum, you said it all. The entertainment writers are worried about AI taking over their jobs - well, AI could have probably written something more interesting and less cliched. And I'm another person who loves jazz (I actually listen to a very good jazz radio station all day while at work) and I'll say that Gregory Porter (or Billy Porter) has nothing to worry about re Adrian Dunbar's vocal talent. And yeah, that song was just so bad that neither Frank Sinatra or Willie Nelson could have made it sound good. But then again, how many people love Britney Spears and she couldn't really sing if her life depended on it, so people like what they like, I guess.

Was this past episode (featuring Chris Bledsoe) the finale? I have a sweet spot for alien (?) contact stories so this was my favorite episode. Sigh. It makes me wish that somebody would bring back UFO Hunters.

Brandon Fugal certainly seems to know a lot of politicians. I also want to know why the blinds were drawn in the meeting in the final 10 minutes or so. I will keep watching this show as my other half really enjoys it but my guess is that they will never really find "anything" and if by chance they do, the govt will shut it down pretty fast.

So this was it ? I'm confused- did they ever catch the actual Big Bad (the traffickers and who was blackmailing Rachita's fiance) - or will that be season 2? I've got to say that this was a really bleak and dreary show. I'll probably be stuck watching season 2 as my other half loves these PBS airing British crime shows. I stopped watching Chicago PD and that cop show that featured J Lo and Ray Liotta because they were too bleak and depressing - I'm beginning to think that those shows were almost light and cheery compared to these British crime shows. More Father Brown and less of this - please!

Count me as another person sick of all the soap opera drama. Couldn't they have had Will be a happily married man with an adorable stepson and a new baby and leave it at that? I guess in TV Land happy people can't be solving crimes (unless its Midsommer Murders and maybe Father Brown). This drug thing is now going a bridge too far. The coming attractions looked to be teasing a split for Leonard and Daniel. I love Daniel (and getting sick of Leonard at this point) and I hope he's sticking around but Leonard is getting hard to take. The final straw seemed to be Leonard's whining that Daniel was unsupportive. Good for Daniel telling him off! I'm going to admit that I figured it was the guy in the locked room who was the murderer but didn't see the other twist coming.

Wow, I didn't see that coming. I figured that the fiance was a controlling jerk (like who goes house shopping without talking to their intended about it? Maybe she would like a say about a house she'd be living in) but wow. I wonder if we are going to be given more of a back story as to how she started dating the fiance and how long it was after that she was promoted to Detective. It seems pretty over the top to want to kill your fiance because she was seen kissing another guy, without even a jealous confrontation over it (though from reading the papers it seems men kill their girlfriends/wives over less than that). This seems like its going to be much more about corruption in the police than a love triangle. Now it makes me wonder about the nasty boss...

Well a few takeaways here: the props dept doesn't seem to know that dried blood is not bright red and there are men who notice a woman's outfit (at least in the fantasy world of British tv). Hard to believe that Ripley was going to go traipsing off to the US with this woman who he knew for like a week! Also hard to believe if he is that lonely and ready to start dating again there aren't any interesting single women hanging out at that jazz bar (not counting the bartender who obviously has a thing for him) who are actually staying put in the area. I wonder if this case was "inspired" by Jimmy Saville who apparently sexually abused hundreds of children and how it was covered up until after his death as he knew many people in high places.

Mrs. Gilgo Killer is probably going to try and put as much space between herself and this freak as fast as possible. Who knows if he was also abusive at home and maybe she jumped with joy at being able to escape. I don't know how the asset thing is going to work out; NY divorce laws are pretty complicated and she might not even be on the title to the house. She will probably have to hire an investigator to see if her husband had "hidden" assets and maybe the value of those guns could come into play as well. I saw something this morning that law enforcement is going to be doing interviews with the wife and daughter to glean if they knew anything about the Paterfamilias' hobby of murdering ladies of the evening. Re the Alabama case - One way ticket bus tickets to Nashville, huh? Maybe she wanted a selfie with Miranda Lambert (Kidding!). And if there was any truth to her story (including running through the woods to escape), you'd think at the very least she'd have scratches from the trees and brush and a million bug bites. I think that the young lady's story is unraveling very quickly. Wonder why she did it? Maybe she was counting on setting up a go fund me. The Texas case. I don't think the guy was a "captive" in the way of being chained to a wall or something. I think he actually left the house many times but used a different name and says he was "brainwashed" by his mother. This sort of case may make it to 48 Hours but it seems that Dateline goes into either very attractive female victims or affluent people (usually both). I think this case would be kind of "low rent" for Dateline but you never know.

Re the Alabama case - it's looking more like it was a hoax. Apparently the victim had done some very recent searches on "Amber Alert" and the movie "Taken". The police also had surveillance video of the highway where her car was found and there were no other vehicles seen. I guess there will be more updates.

I'm still watching - anybody else?

The flamethrower dropped my jaw - I guess that they don't have fire marshals in the sticks. I kept thinking that a few stray sparks from that flamethrower could have caused one helluva fire if any of that vegetation was dry. It just seemed like a really stupid type of stunt with no real use.

I don't think he's desperate. I think he's lonely and maybe part of the attraction of her is that she is only in town for a few days. Lots of times its what you can't easily have is what you want. It could also just be pure sexual attraction and a lonely guy who wouldn't mind getting laid.

I'm sure that that every one of these True Crime shows will be having a "special edition" Gilgo Beach episode soon. I live on Long Island and when they showed the suspect's house on the news I figured that there are going to be a lot of "interesting" details coming out about this guy's life. He is an architect and he is living in home that sticks out like a sore thumb in his neighborhood and not in a good way. I wouldn't doubt if the police are going to strip that house down to the studs. It was also reported today that the cops are searching a storage unit that he had. I really, really, hope that they find some of the murdered women's belongings to prove he did it with some hardcore evidence. Waiting for more info about the woman in Kentucky. At first I thought that maybe the young child was left on the side of the road as "bait" in the hopes that somebody would stop and then get robbed or worse. I'm glad that the woman turned up safe but yeah, the entire thing is weird. I'm old enough to remember the Tawana Brawley case here in NY and wonder if this is some strange adult version of that.

So this is on Sunday nights on my PBS station and just aired the third episode last night and I'm not totally impressed but it was still an okay way to kill 45 minutes (I guess that this show is on commercial TV in Britain). I'm not familiar with the actor playing Ridley and he appears to be a better actor than singer. I don't understand the trope that the main character has to be mentally "tortured" in some way (in this case his wife and daughter were killed in a house fire meant for him). And what is it that the male detectives ALWAYS have daughters (and generally only one)? Is that a written rule somewhere? And what is with the Jazz Club in the burg where Ridley now lives? Nothing like quirky places with their quirky entertainments. I live in an area with millions of people and if a place that features jazz opens up, it's a miracle if they last 2 years. I guess if the lead actor liked to sing hard rock instead of jazz, we'd have a joint that features Led Zepplin tribute bands instead of jazz. And speaking of the jazz bar, it's obvious that the co-owner/bartender has a thing for our hero and at this point, he thinks of her as being in the friend-zone. You wonder if they have had a "history" or if its always been this way between them. One thing that really sets this show apart from American shows is that it features a lot of middle aged people who actually look like "real people" of that age group. People have wrinkles, double chins and are overweight. And some of them are women! Kudos show for realizing that folks can be 50 years old and not look like Jennifer Lopez. I wish that American TV would get that radical.

This episode was better than the prior one thanks to Leonard, the rest of the supporting cast and the actual murder case. Will needs to grow the hell up already. Sometimes it seems as if his little stepson has more maturity. And show, please stop with Georgie's idiot boss. It's poop or get off the pot - have Georgie retire already or have the boss fired (or better yet, become a case of the week victim) and let Georgie work his job in peace. I've read that the show has been picked up for Season 9 and there was a spoiler which I won't write here. Anyway, with Dickens "sowing his wild oats", maybe we will have puppies to make us smile.

DRAAAMMAA. That's why they went in that direction. If you had Will actually marry a woman of faith, there would be less conflict and a lot less angst. Also, my guess is that a circa 1960 religious woman wouldn't have immediately tried to jump into bed with him (yes, even if she were a widow) because back then, such stuff was considered A Sin, but we know that Grantchester is really 2023 in 1950s clothing. Even Will's behavior as a Vicar would be looked at with many a raised eyebrow back then.

Gotta agree with pretty much what is being said here. Save the drama for the actual crimes and let the main characters have peaceful lives. I have gotten to kind of like Bonnie, even though the show made her too "fast" and didn't take enough time to show her and Will in a relationship that would lead to marriage. And as of an aside - if that actress is "plain", I'm lucky that I don't scare dogs and little children when I walk the streets! Guess that beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. Anyway, Will is acting childish and now is going to pay for it. At this point, he really doesn't come across as good husband material. It seems like Bonnie is going to have three children to contend with. And I'm SO done with the crap of the obnoxious boss trying to force Geordie into retirement. Please show, give us some happy characters and some interesting crimes to solve - yes, more like Midsommer Murders ( I like that idea).

Check out Driad's link posted a few comments up. It was very helpful reading.

In some ways this was a WTF of a case. If I had been on that jury, I don't think that I could convict Chris based on what we have been told. He sure is one helluva an odd man; and could he have wanted Andy dead? Well, he might have had motive (guess it depends on what Andy's reaction on finding out about his porn addiction was) but there was really nothing tangible linking him to the crime other than the word of a rapist/murderer who wanted to cut a deal and not get the death penalty. If Chris was behind the murder, the guy has got to go down as a criminal mastermind. His demeanor and answers were hinky enough to lean you into thinking that he was behind it but it also beggars belief that Bobby Joe would murder this woman for a "promised" 5 grand and didn't even ask for a deposit first. My guess? That Bobby Joe came to the house to rob it and Andy was there so he killed her, and that Chris wasn't especially upset that Andy was dead. He seems to be a guy who probably keeps all of his cards close to the vest and may have a deceitful personality. Maybe as far as he was concerned, he was better off without her and really didn't care about the murder as it made his life easier. "shrugs". Just weird all the way around.

I like James Fox too. He had a very interesting film career in the 1960s and apparently filming "Performance" led him to have a nervous breakdown. He left acting for close to a decade, becoming an Evangelical Christian and eventually got back into acting. There is also another Fox; Edward, who is James' brother and who starred in "Day of the Jackal" and has also been in many more movies. Laurence Fox and his beliefs are a mystery to me. He seems to be a modern version of Oswald Mosley, which is shocking and sad. And yeah, has spoiled watching "Lewis" as well.

Hard to believe there is only one episode left to go. I really so hope that Thursday and Bright make it out alive. It was interesting to me that Bright was looking at a travel brochure for India (a place where he lived when young and in his prime). Maybe he is looking for a new adventure and that in 1972, India hadn't changed as much as the Western World had. As for the young rich punks - I got a real "Clock Work Orange" vibe from them (and the movie had come out around that time). I was surprised that one of them was called Lord Ormsby Gore as that is the real last name of a prominent (and tragic) British family. The current Lord Harlech is an Ormsby Gore and Eric Clapton had been in a fairly long relationship with Alice Ormsby Gore who died of a drug overdose (I think she would have been the aunt of the current Lord Harlech).

Were Morse and Joan ever really "a thing"? I never saw it - what I remember was him being in love with her and she never seemed to feel it. She was aware of his feelings, I think, but she didn't feel the same way. I'd never say they were ever boyfriend/girlfriend and I don't recall ever broadcasting how he felt about her. My take is that Strange really has no idea about Morse's feelings for Joan and Joan probably never brought it up to him. Frankly, (and this might be a minority opinion), I think that Joan would be a lot happier with Jim Strange (who actually seems to be a decent man) than she would be with Morse. If every bit of unhappiness and disappointment is going to make him hit the bottle, then I think that Joan dodged a bullet. And the look on Thursday's face at the end when he saw Morse in the bar said it all.

This show looks like its made on even less of a shoestring than Skinwalker Ranch. It also has kind of a different feel to it than the Prometheus produced shows (and a different narrator). It seems as if the Skinwalker people are going to exploit the hell out of it and two episodes in, I'm not impressed by this one. Neither of the "investigators" seems to be impressive and I can't see how their hit and run (come to a place and blow a few things up) approach is going to find out much of interest.