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.

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.

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.

I think that may have been the point.

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.

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).

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

and me

They have it out for us.

CSI: was there an explanation of all the codes, or why the circles of hell? I kind of stopped paying attention partway through.