Wesley: We were fighting on opposite sides, but it was the same war. Fred: but you hated her…didn't you? Wesley: It's not always about holding hands.

'Shells'


Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.

This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]


P.M. Marc - Sep 26, 2013 7:02:31 pm PDT #10036 of 11831
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Sob break number six. I want to put a hex on all the people who recommended this show to me. Especially my mum, who described the finale as horrific and heartbreaking. WTF am I watching now? The good times?

Sadly, yes.

Being as I am Amazon delay, I just finished watching the whole series. And, yeah. Oh, for the days when it was merely exceedingly gutting.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 27, 2013 8:31:00 am PDT #10037 of 11831
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Being as I am Amazon delay, I just finished watching the whole series. And, yeah. Oh, for the days when it was merely exceedingly gutting.

Pretty much how I felt during the finale.


brenda m - Sep 27, 2013 8:39:09 am PDT #10038 of 11831
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Huh. I've yet to watch the finale, but I have been watching the rest of the series. It's very good. But at base I think it's kind of The Killing if season 1 had been done right. It doesn't stand out as exceptionally bleak by television, small-town has dark secrets that come out in crisis standards.

It's not uplifting by any means. The whole sequence with the old man was the worst part for me.


Trudy Booth - Sep 27, 2013 3:03:06 pm PDT #10039 of 11831
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

My complaint about Broadchurch is that they didn't know the nature of the old man's offense without him telling them? There was no file on this? Maybe they said something I didn't notice about not being able to get it.


brenda m - Sep 27, 2013 5:13:13 pm PDT #10040 of 11831
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

No. Not you. Why didn't they look into that at all? Cops and journalists both?

The fact that there were no details AT ALL and that no one seemed to be looking for any told me right off it was clearly unrelated. But it was painful watching it play out.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 27, 2013 8:05:03 pm PDT #10041 of 11831
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I think that may have been the point.


Lee - Sep 27, 2013 8:37:30 pm PDT #10042 of 11831
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Huh. I've yet to watch the finale, but I have been watching the rest of the series. It's very good. But at base I think it's kind of The Killing if season 1 had been done right. It doesn't stand out as exceptionally bleak by television, small-town has dark secrets that come out in crisis standards.

This is pretty much how I feel too. I just watched the finale tonight, and for whatever reason, neither it or the series as whole hit me as hard as it seems to have hit other people.


-t - Sep 28, 2013 4:53:58 am PDT #10043 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

What I liked about Broadchurch (and The Killing, that's a good comparison) is that it treats all the characters with compassion, even when they are doing terrible things. And that ends up very sad (unless it goes wrong like The Killing did for me and I end up not caring anymore).


-t - Sep 28, 2013 9:01:06 am PDT #10044 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

What the hell was that Two Days Earlier on Criminal Minds for? Just to annoy me?


Lee - Sep 28, 2013 9:04:41 am PDT #10045 of 11831
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

and me