Episode #2.5

Half way through this season because, for some reason I can't seem to stop but I have become so fed up with almost every single character in this little town I simply can't stand them.

They are so incredibly violent! Men and women kick, punch, slap and hit each other. They SCREAM every word they say. The defense attorney even screams at her son when she visits him in jail -- something no prison guard would put up with for one second.

Even our protagonist Ellie kicks and beats her husband knowing full well she could blow the whole case with her actions. Most women who found out their husband was a murderer would be in shock, going over all their memories looking for clues, but not Ellie she's handling this crisis like a three year old having a tantrum.

Beth is the worst. I dislike both the character and the actress. Her reaction to all things is the same -- bend her knees and sob and scream. She does it when she finds out her son has been killed -- fine. But she also does it when she decides to beat up Ellie who has done nothing to her, and over Joe's change in court room plea, and while she is in labor, and when she runs into the woman her husband has had an affair with. In between hysterics, she stands around and mouth breaths.

Ricky comes to town for the sole reason to beat up Lee.

Ellie smacks Hardy and yells at him constantly in spite of his condition.

Whatever happened to the British stiff upper lip.

Where is anyone's maturity and dignity?

It's as ridiculous as the way they meet up in the field or on the beach and totally surprise one another, as though they couldn't have been seen for miles.

Ellie is perplexed when her own son decides he wants to give evidence for his father's defence. Jocelyn and Sharon confront one another.

Well, the last two episodes for me, were too slow, nothing really happened in either of them, they lacked substance, finally, it's back on track, this was a very good middle episode.

It was like as if the focus returned to Danny's case, The Sandbrook goings on, though important, somehow took away something, here they felt incidental, with Danny's murder the focus once again.

Best of all, the spat between Jocelyn and Sharon, this series had pretty much perfect casting, Baptiste and Rampling delivered equally exemplary performances, you really did believe there was a past, and a built up loathing between them, it was a quite remarkable scene.

8/10.

This show never loose a bump, it's incredible!

Anyway the situation is going to be more and more mysterious and the pile of unanswered questions is keep growing. I like it! There is a rebellion, two problems that got worst and some new information about the relations between two characters.