(Rated 5/5)
Broadchurch will return... but should it?! Now
we know who killed Danny do we really need anything more? Series one had all
the ingredients of a truly cracking whodunnit and suitably traumatised lead
investigators with mysterious pasts - well in fact who did not have a
mysterious past on the show?! - but to me it felt like an extremely good but
self-contained piece. When something is that good should it really be repeated
or stop when the going's good. Then again The Killing and other shows have
successfully done it. I just hope it does not get over-milked. The acting was
truly superb from everyone - I was particularly moved by Pauline Quirke's
performance during her revelatory story... and then later Olivia Coleman in
response to the final awful resolution. David Tennant was brilliant at stepping
into a fully-rounded, damaged and flawed slightly cruel; later sympathetic
character - even though I struggled for just a while with "DT is always
nice DT deep-down really and that's it" - goodness knows how I will
respond to him in The Politician's Husband when he will apparently be truly not
nice! Arthur Darvill also did very well in a non-RoryPond role as the
supportive yet challenging vicar... and Jodie Whittaker truly heartbreakingly
wonderful as Danny's mother. The linking theme is abuse and love of children -
where the two may even meet and the rights and wrongs of that - very emotive
and powerful.
Broadchurch – Review by TheRestrictedReviewer © 2013
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