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I would change part of the ending because the scene with Lucille going to the church service should have ended with her walking into the room. We didn't need the singing of Amazing Grace. When we'd just lost Barbara, it took away from our mourning and the poignancy of Phyllis finishing the psalm. Heidi Thomas has been pushing Lucille to the front too much. I'd rather see one of the nuns struggling with her devotion to the religion than have so much of Lucille.

Mark didn't say anything about needing to stay married. He felt he couldn't properly heal in the presence of Beth, the girls and all the things in Broadchurch reminding him of Danny. He came to the realization she didn't want to be married to him any more and asked for confirmation of that, which she gave him.

The finale felt rushed. It was exciting but we needed a lot more time for those last three or four scenes that were jammed into 5 minutes. The writer kept too many loose threads unanswered for too long. If they'd picked up the bag of twine and arrested Clive by the end of episode 7, we'd probably have had the needed time. Also the reenactment of Leo "lending" his girlfriend to Michael was not that necessary. The third series suffered from too many side stories that were touched on but not fleshed out fully. I know they were all to illustrate the various degrees of good and bad attitudes to sex and sexuality, but some made it hard to understand the point that was being made. Maybe there will be some deleted scenes on the DVD that better explain the side stories, but I'd have kept to two side stories done really well rather than the half dozen or more that were going on. (Tom and the porn sharing, Daisy's photo and the boys hounding her, Ian and the spyware, Jim and his affairs, Ed stalking Trish, Maggie and the newspaper demise, Hardy's tinder date) I'm glad Chris Chibnall didn't kill off either detective to end the series. But he did manage to flatten them a bit. I liked their sparring better in series 1 & 2. It was interesting to see them fall in sync with each other -- that breakfast making scene last week was almost ballet-like --- but only once did she call him arsehole. We needed more indignant Miller. I do hope that we see them again at some point.

I doubt that was a relief more than it was just throwing him into the void. He'd put all sorts of energy into imagining ways he could have saved Danny, but he would have been too late. He envisioned killing Joe for a long time, but he couldn't. No matter what Mark did, nothing could bring back Danny. His role as family protector was blown. Unfortunately Mark has been blind to how much his daughters still need him. I suppose he thought he was sparing them years of pain trying to deal with him.

It does look like they're in the churchyard in Broadchurch, but they could also be in a churchyard in Sandbrook, visiting Pippa Gillespie's grave since he so equated Pippa to Daisy. He's not wearing a tie, so I don't think they're at a funeral.

The other day, BBC America ran a trailer for the 3rd series that has Hardy and Daisy in a scene that we haven't seen. ITV followed that up with a still of the same scene from the finale.

If we were going on to a fourth series, then I'd be happy with adding in all sorts of complicated details like someone filming the attack, being part of a larger porn ring, or making it Mark Latimer, who clearly needs a lot of help as it is. There's so much to wrap up for the trilogy and the present cases, that I think the answer to Trish's assault case will have to be pretty straightforward. Going forward, my main interest is what becomes of Hardy and Ellie. Chris Chibnall has vocally said this is the end of Broadchurch and the end of the trilogy, but would he possibly bring back our two detectives working together in another town or county so they could have more cases? Look at Vera (for those who know Brenda Blethyn's show). She's a detective in Yorkshire who gets rural murder after murder after murder to investigate. Frankly, I think he'd be stupid to kill off (figuratively or literally) these characters. Their partnership and characterization is a cash cow he should revisit. Chris Carter couldn't keep Mulder and Scully archived forever. Hardy and Miller are at least the same calibre. I hope he keeps them going with occasional 2-parters.

Also, Hardy asking the waitress "What's a DILF?" Even funnier because under all that scraggly beard is David Tennant.

Someone pointed out that the actress who played the awful newspaper syndicate woman was Ophelia to David Tennant's Hamlet -- in the same production that SOCO Brian was his Horatio. Have to laugh at Chris Chibnall bringing in actors familiar to David or Olivia. The guy playing Aaron the rapist was in Peep Show with OC. I am trusting that Chris Chibnall has an ultimate plan about finishing off Joe and that's why he had Mark rescued. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that. Andrew Buchan is doing a fantastic job of portraying depression and how suffocating the depressed person can make it for the rest of the family. At times his eyes look dead and he appears to have no tone in his face. Needless to say it was a huge surprise to see him in the hospital. The way the episode started with the black title cards after seeing the empty boat, I was sure he was dead. But I also figured that to keep focus on the assault case, Hardy and Ellie wouldn't find him till the end of the episode. Anyway, huge surprise. I'm not sure he won't try again, though. The writing for Hardy and Ellie was on point through this entire episode. That scene of them in the kitchen making tea and toast looked like a ballet. We all squealed when she stole a piece of his toast. Finally! Ellie gets to eat in Hardy's presence. Of course his bawling out to "the boys" was prime Hardy and the "I think I'm too nice to people", along with the tiniest hint of a smirk was perfect. And Ellie's come along so far. She delivers requests like she's still a people pleaser but she's all business under those Please and Thank Yous. At this point I don't really care if I guess the attacker correctly. It's just been fun reading everyone's notes on what they've seen.

And Katie wouldn't know this, but Ellie tried to prevent Tom from being interviewed or from playing "Danny" in the re-enactment of Danny's last movements on CCTV.

She also has a chip on her shoulder. Two or three times she remarked "__ doesn't like me " after she was reprimanded for something she did wrong. If she keeps that up, she'll be fired. I understand she feels the need to prove herself -- she showed that with not immediately telling Hardy about Aaron getting in the car. But as long as she thinks her superiors or coworkers are working against her, she'll forget that police work takes team work. My worry is that she might bring charges against Ellie for the second bollocking. Hardy's the lead officer on the case, not Ellie. I can also see Katie dredge up the speculation that Hardy and Miller are having an affair and that's why Ellie gets preferential treatment that she may not be entitled to have.

From http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/fm26mr/broadchurch--series-3-episode-7 Hooray for local newspapers! The Broadchurch Echo and its formidable editor Maggie Radcliffe (Carolyn Pickles) are back, and she’s having no truck with the young woman who’s now her boss. Maggie knows that her paper is the very soul of the community she loves. But the young upstart who has the temerity to try to tell Maggie what to do doesn’t have local interests at heart when she tries to push Maggie to publish a potentially damaging story. “I am still the editor here!” says Maggie, rather magnificently. “I am so proud to be a journalist!” Blimey, it’s not often you hear anyone say that these days. But the town needs some kind of cohesion because the investigation into Trish Winterman’s rape is tearing it apart. Detectives Alec Hardy and Ellie Miller face the inexorable ticking of the custody-clock. But the suspects are bobbing up thick and fast in the penultimate episode of Chris Chibnall’s thriller.

As the Brits say, what a corker of an episode! There wasn't a slow moment in it. We now have Ed's and Katy's secrets revealed, Ian's theft of Trish's laptop out in the open and the source of the porn on Tom's phone. The big one -- for all the doubters -- is that Joe admitted to Mark that he killed Danny. I was hoping against hope that Mark wouldn't end his life (It was spoiled in the papers last August). That was such a devastating finish. The call to Chloe to say goodbye was dripping with foreboding. Andrew Buchan did astounding work in this episode. It's hard to shake that final image.

My problem with all the "Paul is the rapist" theories is that we've seen no connection between Paul and Trish. Trish's attack looks to be premeditated because she was hit with a hard object that knocked her out, tied up with the blue twine, and gagged. That planning points to Trish being targeted for a reason and that means her attacker knew her. But Paul needed Beth to make the offer of counselling. At the same time there are several people in Trish's circle who had some reason they might want to attack her as revenge for something. I know Joe popped up out of left field in series 1, but it was established to all of us that he knew Danny. He was in Danny's circle. It seems to me that Paul's story and Maggie's story are heading in the same direction. They're both going to have to leave Broadchurch for opportunities elsewhere because the people of Broadchurch just can't sustain them. Now, it could be that Paul is on the verge of drinking again, and what keeps him away from the bottle is to be busy with work. No work; nothing to keep him falling off the wagon, and he's scared. That's why he's moaning about no congregation and trying so hard to have someone to counsel. I do think Chibnall's plan in ending the series is to make Broadchurch, the town, unlivable for all the characters we've known since series 1. Ollie, Jocelyn and presumably Lucy and Becca have all left. Daisy doesn't want to stay. The series ends with the rest of them going for various reasons. It would be ironic if Hardy was the only one to stay. Great catch!

http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/fmq29x/broadchurch--series-3-episode-6 Everyone seems to have inched slowly forward with their lives after the murder of Danny Latimer. But not his dad. Mark is haunted and lost; he dreams of Danny and the man he could never become. Andrew Buchan is heartbreaking as Mark, restlessly looking for peace of mind, hatching schemes, needing revenge, but spinning aimlessly. His wife Beth (Jodie Whittaker) is moving on, channelling her energy into helping rape victims, particularly Trish Winterman (Julie Hesmondhalgh), who’s struggling to cope. “I feel like I’m sinking… I hate myself and I don’t want to be in my body,” she says in an anguished late-night phone call. There are dramatic developments in the investigation and disturbing evidence comes to light. But there’s a bit more focus on the lead detectives’ home lives and an interrupted dinner when a furious Ellie Miller sets to work with a hammer. Summary Ellie and Hardy bring a new suspect in for questioning and in a search of this suspect's premises, Ellie finds devastating new evidence linking him to the crime. Back at the station, he gives them his detailed version of events, but when they dig deeper they begin to doubt his story, while DC Katie Harford confronts Ellie and Hardy with an uncomfortable truth about her role in the investigation. The fact that Ian has taken a personal item of Trish's without her knowledge comes to light.

I doubt Phoebe will take it. She's in talks to write a second series of Fleabag and also show-running something in the US. Billie's already said no, so no worries there. Anyone with young kids won't be able to be away from the family that long. One concern about Chibnall -- adding too many characters and leaving too many possibilities open. Series 2 and 3 of Broadchurch have been overwhelming in the number of red herrings.

I just looked at BBC America's schedule. I got this message: "No search results found for "broadchurch" in the next two weeks of schedule information."

Two things I picked up on, from Jim’s cab ride with Clive. I suspect Clive is the area snitch and blackmailer. People get in his cab and he overhears things he can use to blackmail them or take advantage of to make money. The way he was going on about the party made me think he was heading for blackmailing Jim before Jim almost strangled him. As for Jim, what makes sense is he’s got ties to organized crime – that’s how he could afford to throw Cath a lavish party when his business is not doing well. Also, did you get a load of her very expensive looking sky blue convertible? Those things aren’t cheap. He was quite convincing that he has connections who could hurt Clive and family. His going after Clive called back Susan Wright threatening Maggie and Joe strangling Danny in series 1. Aaron the IT guy also reminds me that we had Steve the psychic phone installer in series 1 as well. I wonder what he got up to. Despite all that, my chief suspects are Cath and Leah. I think Trish's attack was vengence for something. Except for Leo, the guys each seemed to do something that removed them from my list. Leah orchestrating it would be an enormous twist like we had in series 1 along with the "everyone thinks she's out of town but she's sneaked back" angle we saw with Ricky Gillespie in series 2. Mark is wearing a red shirt. He'd been in blue up till this episode. That can't be good. I thought we were going to find out Joe had been dealing prescription drugs -- but there he is a port authority officer. Go figure. Finally Daisy. That's heartbreaking. Hardy's whole reason for living and going through all his torment was to protect Daisy. Now his workaholic ways have resulted in her having no support when she needed it most. That was a great anguished groan David Tennant gave as he said "Noooo". I instantly got the sense that Hardy must have been bullied as a kid and now it looks like Daisy's headed for the lonely, antisocial life he's had. She was his hope for happiness, I think. The thing bugging fans is using Trish's case as an excuse when he had time to go on that Tinder date.

If it's of any consolation, I remember reading about Arthur Darvill either filming his Marvel show or appearing at US ComicCons while Broadchurch 3 was being filmed -- hence his limited availability to shoot scenes. I'm surprised he's been in it as much as he has.

The first one sounded like a dig against Ellie about Joe. I've seen speculation Creepy Aaron's met Joe, though the timeline is off. I think Ellie said "supportive boss".

Hate to say it, but I have my eye on Leah. I think she had reason to keep the laptop in the house as much as to let Ian take it, even for a couple of hours. It was just something in the way she handled him that sparked me to think she might not be what she seems. The football game seemed to be far more about having one day of filming when the entire cast was present in one place than doing anything for the story. And there were some real head-scratchers about that. For example, how did the taxi driver get invited? You'd think Cath would have filled the playing rosters with the 50 men who were guests at her birthday party and not be inviting people she doesn't know like Mark, Nige, Tom and "the boys". When Trish arrived only the men who knew her seemed to have noticeable reactions. The boys, Tom, Mark and Nige didn't look shifty. In short, I don't think that Tom and friends have a video of Trish's attack. As humorous as Hardy's date was, it was really out of left field. He's not sleeping, not eating much, working 12+ hours/day relentlessly on this case, and forgetting lunch with Daisy and yet he booked off to go have a Tinder date mid-case? Seems to me Chibnall may have done that more as a big "take that you Hardy-Miller shippers" than to add to the story. I agree with the people who figure the creepy convicted rapist is going to be the one who raped the girl in the field but that case won't end up being connected to Trish's. I'm sure she was raped by someone she knows for revenge, not a stranger. Ian being unconscious says to me he was drugged so that blame would fall on him when he can't explain his whereabouts. So I don't think Ian attacked Trish. He's up to something else. I hope we see more of Chloe with Daisy. Very curious about what happened there.

Joe's defense lawyer kept pushing the idea that Mark killed Danny to show that it was possible to doubt Joe did it and suspect someone else. When she made this particular accusation, all three of Mark, Beth and Nige shook their heads because they knew in their hearts that Mark wasn't capable of killing his own child. The only person who announced that Nige did it was Susan Wright, his birth mother. Why? Because she wanted to hurt him for rejecting her. She knew it was Joe who she saw on the beach. Jocelyn proved Susan was lying, putting that whole angle to rest. Right at the end of series 2, some fans were still convinced someone other than Joe killed Danny. It got so bad that Chris Chibnall tweeted out "It was Joe. It was always Joe." So any suspicion you have about Nige can be put to rest. It was Joe.

If I remember correctly, in season/series 1, the possible prime suspects were limited in number and took their turns being the focus - Mark, Jack, Susan, Nige, Tom, and Steve the psychic. Plus we had several characters who we could eliminate pretty easily - Beth, Ellie, Chloe, Maggie, Ollie, Karen White, and Hardy. In series 2 we were flooded with various scenarios about Sandbrook thanks to Claire changing her story several times. Lots of fans complained they couldn't get into it. Add to that the nasty Sharon Bishop with a side story about her kid who had no connection to Broadchurch and the fact that Joe pleaded not guilty when everyone expected he'd do the right thing, making the court case an annoyance they thought they'd be spared. Well, this time, Chibnall's overloaded us with a party of over 80 people, plus party staff, a lying + challenging detective constable, a shady taxi driver, and Tom who at the very least is distributing links to porn sites. Why some fans wonder if Trish is even telling the truth. We're so flooded with negative there isn't much positive to hold on to. If there's one criticism I have of Chibnall, it's that he's thrown everyone and the kitchen sink into the suspect list. As for Hardy and Ellie, I'd have rather seen them start the case with David Tennant shaved and looking like Hardy has his act somewhat together and then let him fall back into the shabby style and poor self care. So I can see some reason why you might not be getting into this. The hope I have is that series 2's worst episode was #3 and then it got a lot better. So for your sake, I hope that's true of this series too.

From what I've read about them, both Olivia and David are really good at hitting their marks and doing takes. I doubt she had to eat that many scotch eggs. His reaction was priceless when she plunked it in Hardy's hand. Ha ha. BTW, David Tennant recently described how he really makes tea and it's only marginally better, not proper tea making. He's a known coffee addict, maybe that's why he's crap at tea making. Well, if you caught this week's Top Gear on BBC2, you'd have seen that David Tennant can be rather careless with a car. He put a big dent in the side of a 2-week old car while practicing for his speed lap. The Broadchurch cars are probably in safer hands with Olivia at the wheel -- when actual driving is required. LOL

This episode gave us more detail on the side stories. I was sad to see that it's Tom who's the more enthusiastic about the porn links. His friend was not that into them. BUT -- Tom's porn-sharing partner is one of the boys who went looking for Daisy. Gees. That's worrisome! --- And the kid is the step son of the shady cab driver. Yikes! We learned Hardy did try to rebuild his family life with Tess and Daisy but it didn't work out; Daisy got in some sort of trouble; and she and Hardy had major wars with Tess. Whatever Daisy did, Hardy felt bringing her to Broadchurch would give her a second chance. We now know that Mark wants to go after Joe any way he can. He's sacrificing his relationship with his surviving family. In the end we learned via Beth that Joe changed his name and left Sheffield and no one knows where he is. I wonder if Ellie's not been able to get a divorce because of Joe's disappearance.