Items in Review! #3

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Hey everyone! :)

Another Monday has come and another review is just waiting for you! I decided to take a look at one of my favourite shows as of late that I watched for almost eight hours straight because I was hooked. I'll give you some hints about what it could be. It stars David Tennent, it is on the BBC, it takes place in a costal area, and is a murder-mystery show. I am truly hoping that last one gave it away for you guys, but if not I am talking about....BROADCHURCH!

I first heard about this show while watching a vlog on Tanya Burr's channel when Zoella was spending the weekend with her. I didn't think much about it, but after seeing the reactions of a number of people on Youtube about the episodes and the season finale, plus a rave review from Zoe during her monthly favourites, I decided I was going to check it out. I've never really been let down by the BBC so I figured that I would watch the first one and see what everyone was talking about. WOAH. I had no idea how quickly I was going to get sucked into this drama and how rapidly my first week or so of summer was going to disappear.

Credit to: Creative England

The show basically revolves around the lives of the people in Broadchurch following a murder in the first episode. Yes, talk about starting off with a bang! Everyone is connected with one another in some way and are constantly discovering new things about one another. I am going to start here going into a little more detail about some of my favourite things so...

SPOILER WARNING!

So I am going to start by saying the history of Jack Marshall, played by David Bradley,  is probably one of the most heartbreaking stories that I've ever head. Anyone who has watched Pretty Little Liars will be familiar with the idea of a student-teacher relationship that works out and continues going on season after season. Broadchurch shows what really happens in a lot of cases with Jack's story of love and loss, not to mention the immediate conclusions that he was doing terrible things to the young boy who was killed.

Credit to: Digital Spy

 The poor man was attacked by the media that he sold in his store and ended up taking his own life because of it. The only thing that went through my mind the entire time was that he would finally be reunited with his wife and child that had died a long time before. Those kind of stories always end up killing me inside because I cannot stand to see people hounded and wrongfully accused like that. I do know that he was a criminal and I do see why the town turned on him, but it was wrongly taken care of by the police and by news reporters. Also, I spent the entire first episode in shock that they had put Filch into the show because I am a major Harry Potter fan and love seeing the familiar faces in different shows.

Credit to: Tennet News Updates

Here we have the classically annoying characters in my opinion. Their storyline is the one that I dislike the most and just the way that they are acting. The girl, Chloe, is the older sister of the murder boy and this is her older boyfriend Dean. Instead of going to the police to report a "crime" that might have been committed by Jack to the boys in the Sea Brigade (a lot like Boy Scouts), they decided to go to the media. I mean, you have to be a huge idiot to go and do that. Secondly, I just hate the interaction that they have with one another and it just seems really fake and unimportant to the story all together. I understand that Chloe is coping with the murder of her brother but seriously? She never does anything but hide away with her boyfriend or fight with her family. I am sick of the classic moody characters and it is driving me up a wall!

One of the biggest plot twists in the world happened in this show that I think induced a lot of shock-attacks (like a heart attack but only with shock) when people finally saw it. Like I said, I watched the entire thing in 8 hours because the show only has 8 episodes in the season and all of them are currently out online. So I was super connected and invested with the lives of characters over those first 7 hours. So when the murder of the poor boy was finally revealed, my heart broke into a million pieces. If you do not want to know who this is, I would STOP READING NOW!

Credit to: The Blog of Stuart

Joe Miller! That is right ladies and gentleman, at the very end we are finally met with an end to all the questions. Joe Miller is in fact the husband of a police officer that was working the case of the murder. He knew all the details, he mourned with the family, all the while knowing what had happened. Now this is a part that seemed to just jump out of no where; he was in love with the boy that he killed. A boy that was the best friend of his own son and just seemed overly creepy to me. Now the show explains that it was just because he was worried about Danny and often felt like his own son didn't need him the way that Danny did but I still felt as though there was something sinister to it all that couldn't be confirmed or denied. All I know is that it will be interesting to see how they are going to bring his family back into the town after this murder. I think the amount of suspense the show put us through was amazing but all the time you were making judgements about characters and trying to solve a lot of things.

There is still one loophole that I would like filled and maybe it will be in the next season, but I would really like answer for it deals with Susan Wright, played by Pauline Quirke, and the reason that she moved away.

Credit to: The Independent

We find out in the second last episode that she has moved to Broadchurch in order to be closer to her son that was adopted a long time ago. Yet she moves away with a lot of mystery surrounding her. She was the last one to have the skateboard of the dead boy, and though she gives some kind of answer for it, it isn't the best and most reputable. All over, I think I get an eery feeling from Susan and I would like to see more of her in the future. There is something hidden deep down that I would love to see explored further and what is going to happen with her son. I would also love to know the reasons behind his adoption and why she is only seeking him out now.

Credit to: Cultfix

Everyone was really worried about this being a one-time deal and that would have been terrible. Yet the writers were creative in letting people know that the show would be back at some point for a second season and I for one am thrilled. I cannot wait to see what they are going to do and what kind of plot line they are going to put together. Will all the old characters be back? How much time will have passed between the first murder and this impending second one? What about the strings that still haven't been tied off completely, were they left open for the next season? I guess we'll have to wait until about 2014 for the show to come back. A whole year, that is a lot of time to keep wondering isn't it?

Well that is all and I would love to know what your opinion is on Broadchurch! Have you watched it? What did you all think about it?

Cheers! x

-A