Did anybody else think the ending, specifically it being Joe miller, came out of absolutely nowhere? I dont mean in a "I didn't see this coming" sort of way but in a "made up at the last minute sort of way."
I still haven't seen Broadchurch (please no spoilers), and my guess is they made the show the same as that one then changed the ending abruptly to have a different ending. It just made it unnatural.
alexanderman, when you see "Broad church," I for one would be interested in your opinion on the ending for "Broad church." Specifically, whether that ending also "came out of absolutely nowhere."
shareI saw Broadchurch and was disappointed the ending was basically they same. I thought I read they set out to make them different, it was pretty disappointing.
shareit absolutely came out of nowhere...a ridiculous and very disappointing ending to a pretty good story.
It was made very clear in the first episode the son was involved, but there was never any indication of the father, Joe, being a suspect or a pedophile or in any way criminal. At first I thought the father was covering for the son and the son alone had killed his friend in some stupid fight. But the father being "involved" in an on-going relationship with his neighbor's son, and no one noticed anything? Where were the boy's parents when he was meeting Joe? Why was there absolutely no indication of Joe's aberrant sexuality?
Ending ruined it for me.
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I didnt' watch the last eppy, but I too thought that he was coverying for his son....not that he would end up doing it..
the austrlian version has a young girl doing it.....danny or the name of the boy was a pest...and she just shoved him out of the way, and he died.....so....that's kind of why I thought that....around the middle of that series, I started to wonder about the young girl....and I was right....she did it in the end...a 10 year old killed another 10 year old....and she meant to do it....
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There was an Australian version? If so what was the name, loved Broadchurch and would love to see what the Ausie verson of it would be like
shareThere was an Australian version? If so what was the name, loved Broadchurch and would love to see what the Ausie verson of it would be like
We're getting Secrets & Lies also.... I think it started a couple of weeks ago.
shareI knida guessed it from the get go. I was happy I was right Tom was shady as hell and the father looked guilty.
shareThe money found in Dannys room was an early tip that an adult was involved. Joe was a stay at home dad and he had access when most adults were at work. The secret hunting parties were also an indicator the parents were not as aware as they thought.
shareI guessed it pretty early on!!!
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Chris Chibball wanted a different ending for Briadchurch, but was not granted the extra episodes by the BBC. He has said in interviews that he would have had a different killer, maybe the one we see in Gracepoint, maybe not. He said that American TV gave him more time to flesh out the details. Therefore, The ending did not "come out of nowhere", but was thought out before the original British show was produced.
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BBC had nothing to do with Broadchurch other than distributing it to America on BBCA. It was on ITV in the UK.
that's my understanding as well
susan
Except that he only wrote the first episode of Gracepoint and turned the rest of the series over to two U.S. writers.
shareI've never read that Chibnall wanted a different ending, only that he originally proposed 10 episodes for Broadchurch and ITV cut it to 8. His comment on that was condensing by two episodes forced him to tighten up his scripts.
shareI called it from the beginning. I was surprised that I was right. But I knew it had to do with joe and their son. Both of their behaviors were subtly strange the whole time. And the guy who plays joe takes weird roles.. Lol
shareThe ending sucked. It took a show that was a solid 8 and dropped it to a 5.
Deus ex machina to end the show, and the cop mother is going to protect her son from any liability in the death of the child.
The only way this ending would have been reasonable is if the son had killed Danny, and the father made up an elaborate story to protect him. That is an outside possibility, but the way they left the ending was muddled and unclear. Very disappointing and incomplete ending.
I thought it was pretty obvious from the beginning that who did it would come off as being out of nowhere. The show wasn't really about finding out who did it, it was showing the web of intertwined secrets that people have even in small, tight knit communities. That's why it was named after the location and not after the victim. If following the evidence all led to some logical conclusion then it would just be a really long, drawn out episode of every other procedural cop drama.
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