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Post by theatremadness on Oct 3, 2017 16:41:53 GMT
After a good episode last week I am looking forward to the finale tonight, but the way the series has gone I'm not going to set my expectations too high and then hopefully I'll be pleasantly pleased. Also expecting it to be rather outlandish and contrived but why not....s'only telly!! Right? I mean I think TV should be taken seriously in that there's a lot of quality work out there. But also, in the same way some theatre is just daft fun ENTERTAINMENT, so is TV. So bring on whatever ridiculous conclusion it has for us. Oooh maybe Bertie is going to dress up as a woman again...plot twist! 100% agreed! And yes that'd be a great plot twist!! Gemma does Simon in, and then like 6 months later she decides to leave for good (with her son) to start life anew in a completely new place. She enrolls her son into his new school, but guess who the headmistress is......BLACKOUT. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 16:47:37 GMT
@theatremadness I'm phoning BBC right now, sorry Bartlett you're fired we've come up with series three....and it's got SONGS.
This thread has got as ridiculous as the show. And I love it.
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Post by Backdrifter on Oct 3, 2017 21:15:54 GMT
Gave up on it after ep1 but the occasional glimpse suggests if there were no cars or phones in it the screen would mostly be blank.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 21:22:11 GMT
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Post by theatremadness on Oct 3, 2017 21:38:03 GMT
Well it was OK! Not shouting and screaming about it, though. Some of the things that were threatened to have happened/been happening would've made for better endings in my opinion, but it was a gripping enough hour. Oh, and why did Gemma address us directly at the end? Felt weird, whatever the intention was. I feel guilty that I'm hiding Tom somewhere in my house!
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 3, 2017 22:40:41 GMT
She wasn't addressing us, she was pleading with Tom. Good ending I thought, interesting when you try & contextualise with just how many young people go missing all the time now.
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Post by Rory on Oct 3, 2017 23:10:24 GMT
A bit of an uneven series but the acting was superb throughout and I quite liked the ending. I see Bertie is being harangued on Twitter for giving Phil and Holly the run-around on today's This Morning!
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Post by stefy69 on Oct 4, 2017 5:54:33 GMT
How will I fill my Tuesday evenings now ! 
I could always rerun and rerun Bertie's " best bits "  |
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Post by adrianics on Oct 4, 2017 9:08:12 GMT
I really hope they leave the series now, "children are the ones who suffer when their parents feud" is a logical message and conclusion from this story and almost makes season two feel necessary.
Cavel was phenomenal in the finale, I think it's testament to his talent that you almost felt sorry for Simon by the end.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2017 11:03:08 GMT
The finale was really well done I thought- quite hard hitting after some levels of ridiculous. And Bertie was really phenomenal I thought. The idea that yes, you mess yourselves up but the children suffered more is a really strong ending and I liked that the last episode was pretty much just the three of them.
Suranne mentioned that she's booked up for the entirety of next year so if they did do series 3 (and Bartlett had told her what it would be) then it's at least 2 years away. I kind of like it ending there, but I could see how a revisit in 2-3 years might also work.
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Post by theatreian on Oct 4, 2017 16:04:54 GMT
Yes they certainly left it open for series 3
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2017 6:32:19 GMT
Just caught up with the last episode. Complete tosh! Not even the strong cast (most of them from the first series completely underused) could save this mess. There simply wasn’t enough plot to string out five episodes, and what little there was lacked any sense of reality. I half wanted the comedy hypochondriac to reappear in the final scene in the surgery, just to liven things up.
(And I couldn’t help thinking that the breakfast waitress was based on the one and only Victoria Wood. Is it on’t trolley? Is it a sorbet? Can you point to it...?)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2017 7:44:18 GMT
Haha! I'm intrigued to know how you located it; I guessed it was there as I've driven past it quite a few times over the years! However, from the Tripadvisor photographs, I'm not 100% convinced that the interiors are the same hotel. The light fittings are different in the restaurant, and in the corridors. The room they used in the programme doesn't look like any posted by reviewers either. The Chinese restaurant is in the same road! I'd love to know the location of the busy dual carriageway where they filmed. And surely every car that passed was part of the filming...  I'm a bit of a Locations Geek, and love spotting places I know or have been to in TV and films. National Trust are always a good bet.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2017 7:59:47 GMT
Tracked it down as at one point you see the name of the "New Hertford Suite" on the outside of the building You could well be right that the interiors were done somewhere else |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2017 8:06:22 GMT
The original ending Bartlett planned was a bit different apparently: theatreboard.co.uk/thread/3488/doctor-foster?page=5I'm such a nerd for filming locations too. I once stayed in a hotel that Jimmy Nesbit went a bit mad in for Jekyll. They locked us out as well (accidentally). Also living in Cardiff has advantages for location nerding and saying 'that's not an alien planet Doctor it's Splott' |
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Post by richey on Oct 5, 2017 9:09:22 GMT
The original ending Bartlett planned was a bit different apparently: theatreboard.co.uk/thread/3488/doctor-foster?page=5I'm such a nerd for filming locations too. I once stayed in a hotel that Jimmy Nesbit went a bit mad in for Jekyll. They locked us out as well (accidentally). Also living in Cardiff has advantages for location nerding and saying 'that's not an alien planet Doctor it's Splott' I do that with the Cardiff/ Newport locations too! I spoiled an episode of Torchwood once by shouting out "ooh that's the road where I took my driving test!" |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2017 9:33:24 GMT
The original ending Bartlett planned was a bit different apparently: theatreboard.co.uk/thread/3488/doctor-foster?page=5I'm such a nerd for filming locations too. I once stayed in a hotel that Jimmy Nesbit went a bit mad in for Jekyll. They locked us out as well (accidentally). Also living in Cardiff has advantages for location nerding and saying 'that's not an alien planet Doctor it's Splott' I do that with the Cardiff/ Newport locations too! I spoiled an episode of Torchwood once by shouting out "ooh that's the road where I took my driving test!" haha I love it! One of my favourites is the bit in Sherlock where they run from London to Cardiff in one shot  I did get obsessive enough about this at one point to contribute to a book on it....http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137555946 |
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Post by rumbledoll on Oct 5, 2017 10:07:08 GMT
Is there any way to watch This Mornin's interview in full please? Found only bits and pieces so far, can't get what the fuss is about...
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Post by Rory on Oct 5, 2017 11:11:29 GMT
The twitter feed for This Morning has it. It's about 6 minutes long.
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Post by Backdrifter on Oct 5, 2017 14:36:36 GMT
Yes they certainly left it open for series 3 But I think now confirmed no series 3? |
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Post by n1david on Oct 30, 2017 19:09:21 GMT
Yes they certainly left it open for series 3 But I think now confirmed no series 3? Mike Bartlett was in conversation at the Almeida tonight for "Albion", but Dr Foster came up. He said he'd only write another series if there was a story he wanted to tell, and right now there wasn't. The BBC would love to do another one, but at the moment there are no plans. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2018 10:50:17 GMT
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Post by peelee on Feb 7, 2018 13:27:00 GMT
It seems to have something going for it; this could be good. I like the kind of scheduling that broadcasts an interesting series over consecutive nights, and in this case three nights suggests there won't be much padding-out involved. We'll soon see.
Just a thought, though: doesn't this series deserve its own thread?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2018 13:52:03 GMT
Seems Doctor Foster will be back...but will 'Dirty Bertie'(as he has henceforth become known in my house)
Anyway also looking forward to Trauma, the TV show, not actual trauma.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 8, 2018 0:55:26 GMT
It appears the press were misinformed in confirming a third series. Mike Bartlett was on Front Row the other day and said there are no plans for a third at present and he'll only do another if he comes up with an idea for a story he wants to tell. The BBC want a third so perhaps they will prevail.
Trauma co-stars Bertie's partner Sally Scott, most recently seen in the Michael Pennington King Lear.
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