first episode
Great start but everything seem to happen so quickly moving on in steps of months and years, so much happened in just the first episode, what does everyone think.
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If I remember rightly, Malcolm said later that he told the police that he was delirious straight after the "accident". I took that to mean that he had convinced the police that he didn't know what he was saying to the first driver who stopped.
I guess they had to cram a lot in this first episode. I read an article about the guy in the Radio Times, and there is still a lot of story left to tell.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
Yes thats right he said that he explained away his comment about nobody else being in the car by saying that he was in shock and didnt know what he was saying.
I enjoyed it but also found it hard to believe that Malcolm could attract & dupe these women. Still worth watching and looking forward to the next one
"Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day"
Really Enjoyed the first episode too.
I think the whole fact he seemed bumbling and unassuming is exactly why he attracted these women.
At his second wedding his wife agreed he wasnt like her other boyfriends when her friends were talking to her about him.
Perhaps these women had previous bad relationships and so were looking for someone a little more earnest. That was my take on it, Anyway....
Really looking foward to seeing the next part!!
I know that Reece Shearsmith said to a fan on twitter that it was a shame that they wheren't able to show the womens dating history as they had all had a bad time with men and so he apeared to be a reliable, kindly man after being messed around so much.
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As a woman, I have often been amazed at the unappealing, uninteresting, boring (to me) men many women hook up with. Some women just want "a man", and are willing to put up with a whole lot of crap just to have one in their lives. No matter how creepy, lazy, mean-spirited, etc., a man may be, there's always some foolish woman desperate enough to put up with him. As long as he's "nice enough" that makes him acceptable. Although it has been said that Malcolm was "very charming", it seems to me to be a case of "he'll do". And some women are real suckers for a sob story, as seen with Simone in the 2nd episode. Bring out that mother instinct and you're (sometimes) onto a winner.
It beats me, must be terminal low self-esteem. I'd rather be alone than with someone who's secretive, controlling and abusive (like Malcolm), but I'm obviously in the minority.
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As a woman, I have often been amazed at the unappealing, uninteresting, boring (to me) men many women hook up with. Some women just want "a man", and are willing to put up with a whole lot of crap just to have one in their lives. No matter how creepy, lazy, mean-spirited, etc., a man may be, there's always some foolish woman desperate enough to put up with him. As long as he's "nice enough" that makes him acceptable. Although it has been said that Malcolm was "very charming", it seems to me to be a case of "he'll do". And some women are real suckers for a sob story, as seen with Simone in the 2nd episode. Bring out that mother instinct and you're (sometimes) onto a winner.
It beats me, must be terminal low self-esteem. I'd rather be alone than with someone who's secretive, controlling and abusive (like Malcolm), but I'm obviously in the minority.
Thing is, that's what we can see from an objective viewpoint, to a dramatised account. Clearly that's not how he probably came across at first to attract some of these women.
Yes, some of it was a bit creepy / needy - but (playing on the (invented) leukemia and grief) but he may have been reasonably clever / savvy at that. At some point, at least in the dramatised version, the wife in New Zealand realises, although it seems to take certain things that play out in the last scene before his final attempted victim perhaps understood more than how he presented himself to her. share
I listened to an interview with the New Zealand wife, and while she was grateful and supportive of the dramatisation, she said that one of the big misfires was in the characterisation of Malcolm, which didn't match the charm of the real man. She described him as more of a life and soul of the party, a big bear of a man who everyone wanted to be near.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2602414/felicity-drumm-former-wife-of-murderer-malcolm-webster
Reece Shearsmith is a beautiful man and remarkable actor, and does a great portrayal of a sociopath.
I think the drama has missed an opportunity however by not portraying how conmen typically are convincing and credible. Its their vocation. The viewer thinks they would not be fooled, because the creepiness is on the surface, and the guy just isn't sexy. RS is gorgeous, but he doesn't play sexy in this case, and what's with the senior citizen hair? These were intelligent, independent women that he fooled, and there would be some value in raising awareness that this could happen to anyone.