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By *ummersun99Woman
over a year ago
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Ugh this is why I haaaate watching stuff on TV, I have to wait a WHOLE WEEK for the next episode! I have no patience at the best of times. Facepalm!
Don't know how women do it, I couldn't know and keep it in and pretend I'm fine... Good drama though! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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It's an interesting twist on the infidelity tale with so many people knowing.
At the end of the first episode I did wonder if it was about to go down the route of all but Dr Foster being in a swing-type relationship with each other.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Watching it purely because the pub used to be my local.
What is it a pub in Aylesbury? I remember the lobster pot and big hand mo's  "
No, it's in Rickmansworth. I've not been in Aylesbury long so any pub recommendations are gratefully received. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Poorly written and dreadful script. Poor storyline.and worse actors!
are you for real!!!!!!!"
I am indeed!
Picture this you leave your 11 year old son in the car after driving like a mad woman to your husbands place of work. You then get hubbys PA to show him with his lover seemingly in a garden with a park bench like all offices have. You then tell your son you rembered you have to go to a conference leave him with the PA all the hubby is canoodling with his child lover in the office garden. You go to a seaside retreat try to commit suicide hubby rings and you say sorry I forgot about the conference. Then you go home act if all is ok and then proceed to attend a social event with your hubbies lover a week early. Hubby has not clicked she knows!
Yep poorly scripted dreadful story line!
Suddenly Britans dogs on benefits looks a better bet?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Well I'm quite enjoying it, I like dramas where it's not clear cut and actually you find it difficult to like any of the characters. Better than the standard man bad/perpetrator, woman good/victim narrative. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Well I'm quite enjoying it, I like dramas where it's not clear cut and actually you find it difficult to like any of the characters. Better than the standard man bad/perpetrator, woman good/victim narrative. "
I too enjoy well constructed drama this is, in my opinion, poor and very weak.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Well I'm quite enjoying it, I like dramas where it's not clear cut and actually you find it difficult to like any of the characters. Better than the standard man bad/perpetrator, woman good/victim narrative. I too enjoy well constructed drama this is, in my opinion, poor and very weak."
Yet you've still watched all three episodes!
Think to appreciate the programme you'd have to have had some dark times in your life. I really enjoy it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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(Message from female - male wouldn't be caught watching it!)
I hate this programme, and yet can't help watching it. Its awful that her completely unethical and umprofessional practice isn't more shocking to the characters around her. She contacts relatives about what happens in consultations (with one patient, these consultations are conducted in a car park and then in a bar?!) She blackmails her colleagues (she texts 'please do this, for me') into breaking their code of conduct.
Suranne Jones plays her character well, in my opinion, but the other characters are far to blasé about her ridiculous antics. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"She's epic!!
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I think she is a narcissist with a severe personality disorder.
I don't like the character at all but I have met women like her and have seen how those around them behave, collude and enable the behaviour, and operate behind their backs to do the things they know will get them into trouble. It has a ring of truth to it, for me.
It's not the best written thing on the television but I am hooked.
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"Poorly written and dreadful script. Poor storyline.and worse actors!
are you for real!!!!!!! I am indeed!
Picture this you leave your 11 year old son in the car after driving like a mad woman to your husbands place of work. You then get hubbys PA to show him with his lover seemingly in a garden with a park bench like all offices have. You then tell your son you rembered you have to go to a conference leave him with the PA all the hubby is canoodling with his child lover in the office garden. You go to a seaside retreat try to commit suicide hubby rings and you say sorry I forgot about the conference. Then you go home act if all is ok and then proceed to attend a social event with your hubbies lover a week early. Hubby has not clicked she knows!
Yep poorly scripted dreadful story line!
Suddenly Britans dogs on benefits looks a better bet??"
oh dear, it seems you are very much in a minority, however still entitled to your opinion. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"(Message from female - male wouldn't be caught watching it!)
I hate this programme, and yet can't help watching it. Its awful that her completely unethical and umprofessional practice isn't more shocking to the characters around her. She contacts relatives about what happens in consultations (with one patient, these consultations are conducted in a car park and then in a bar?!) She blackmails her colleagues (she texts 'please do this, for me') into breaking their code of conduct.
Suranne Jones plays her character well, in my opinion, but the other characters are far to blasé about her ridiculous antics. "
I know this isn't real life but I like the programme and think it's done well so feel obliged to explain it to people who don't get it.
She followed that guy to the car park because he got fed up of waiting to be seen and walked out of the surgery to his car, pretty true to real life and the strain on gps, she followed him and saw him anyway, he even said you're doing this in the car park and she said something like professional men of your age won't usually see a doctor so there must be something wrong, now to me as a viewer I see that as someone who is going beyond her duty as a gp and making a psychological assessment on this guy knowing that he does have something on his mind. She went to the bar and he happened to be there, even told his wife about his brain tumour which turned out later that his wife was supportive and that guy doesn't have a problem with it, even agreeing be her solicitor and met her for an appointment.
Her colleague Roz is a cunt who was supposed to be her friend, knew her husband was cheating on her and didn't say anything even covered for him and warned him that she was on to him and had left work early to follow him, doing a few favours is the least she can do.
The hurt and betrayal her character would feel having everyone around her knowing, I think it's done really well anyway. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Well I'm quite enjoying it, I like dramas where it's not clear cut and actually you find it difficult to like any of the characters. Better than the standard man bad/perpetrator, woman good/victim narrative. I too enjoy well constructed drama this is, in my opinion, poor and very weak.
Yet you've still watched all three episodes!
Think to appreciate the programme you'd have to have had some dark times in your life. I really enjoy it. "
I have watched one episode on I player and it s low budget drivel! |
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"Is she from Gloucester?"
No. That's the point at which I mentally switched off. Surely the whole point was that it was going to be set in Gloucester, and involve some sort of flooding (or watersports?)
I also got confused because Martin Clunes wasn't in it, but apparently "that's another programme"
Two strikes and you're out in my book.
(Unless there's boobage)
Mrs ddc loves it.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The programme is utter drivel!
you made it clear you dont like it, but you are in a minority, not sure why you are getting so upset though."
not upset I am just responding to the comments made! |
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Promising start, but has gone from bad to worse, totally unbelievable, in fact laughable.
Hypothermia? not even a shiver from the doughty Doctor. Trouble is of course, can't wait for the denouement. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Well I'm quite enjoying it, I like dramas where it's not clear cut and actually you find it difficult to like any of the characters. Better than the standard man bad/perpetrator, woman good/victim narrative. I too enjoy well constructed drama this is, in my opinion, poor and very weak."
Perhaps you should read the critics reviews. |
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"Hmmm, rehabilitating her in our eyes at the end didn't feel quite right."
It was a very odd anticlimatic ending.
I feel no sympathy for her - but maybe the point of series is to show that none of them are a perfect victim. |
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"Hmmm, rehabilitating her in our eyes at the end didn't feel quite right."
Did you think that was rehabilitation? I felt it was evidence of her god complex and need for public admiration to sustain herself. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I didn't like how they portrayed her in this epoxide as the accused party, like she was in the wrong!! What she went through with the child and supporting him financially and dealing with it all.. I'd say he got off really lightly! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Hmmm, rehabilitating her in our eyes at the end didn't feel quite right.
Did you think that was rehabilitation? I felt it was evidence of her god complex and need for public admiration to sustain herself. "
There was that too. |
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Hmmm... I was reserving judgment on this till the end cause I thought the first episode was quite good but it kinda went downhill.
I love Suranne Jones as an actress but I think her character was too jumbled. One moment she was strong and feisty and the next she's off into the sea. I know trauma can do funny things but it was a bit over the top for my liking.
Sending your kid to the house of your husband's mistress wasn't even worthy to portray her fragile/mental state. Lost a lot of credibility there for me. Who would do that? To a kid? 
Too jumbled all round, too many people involved and the other doctor at the surgery needed a swift size five up her hoop! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"My sympathy went out to the kid not only did he have those two as parents but he also supported the Villa.
A lifetime of disappointment ahead of him. "
The father was just ensuring his child had the same issues he had with his father. 
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