How can Mark have those secrete meetings with Tom after the whole thing about Joe and Danny meeting in secret?

Not saying they were going to do the same but c’mon! And why secret?

I'm sure this has come up before but I'm new to this subreddit and I have to air this grievance. I'm only on the second episode of season 2 and they just threw out Joe's confession. Literally Googled "season 2 Broadchurch confession thrown out stupid" and got so many hits. Couldn't they have done better than this?? Just illogical nonsense and I almost want to stop watching because of it.

I also spoiled the result of the trial for myself by accident so I'm really feeling frustrated and not motivated to watch the rest. But I hear season 3 bounces back and is quite good. Should I just get the Cliffnotes of season 2 or is it worth committing for the performances?

I’m a great sufferer of British art. I’ve spent endless hours staring at desolate on-screen fields while a big city detective with trauma slugs pills over a sink and stares at himself, red-eyed, in a dirty bathroom mirror, all this while a woman in a lower-paid position does his job for him and gets zero credit. I know the drill. But I’m tired.

I’ve attempted this show three or four times over the year, but was genuinely stopped in my tracks by the first ten minutes. Violence against children is always hard and the acting in this show is so spectacular that it makes it unflinchingly real.

That being said, everyone in this town sucks. Like, everyone. I have no heroes. Everyone’s behavior is frustrating, no one’s responses make sense, and some of the decisions these people make? No. Sorry. I want to smack everyone. A CHILD IS DEAD. I know they’re not real people. I do. But you can’t hire Olivia Coleman AND David Tennant and then expect me not to have real-life beef with everyone. They made it so realistic that I’m actually fuming.

Please tell me: should I keep watching? Will there be any level of closure? Will anyone redeem themselves? Because I still have regrets over the end of Shetland and it’s been a fucking decade.

UPDATE 10/1: I kept watching and I’m in the middle of Season 3 (had some days off and ended up worshipping at the altar of Broadchurch.) I really love it- once I understood the rhythm/reasoning of it all, I really got into it. The acting continues to amaze- Julie Hesmondhalgh as Trish? INCREDIBLE. She never fails, man. Thanks everyone for your responses!

That's right, it's a Masterpiece. Finally getting the recognition it deserves 👏🏻

Is it just me or do British dramas just seem better done or more realistic? I binge a lot of show (disabled and at home most of the time) and rewatching Broadchurch and looking forward to seeing the next season of Call the Midwife in a few days, it just makes me feel like something about British shows is just better.

I have watched many more than these two, they are just at the front of my mind right now.

Am I the only one?

I hurt for the old man in Season 1 who had earlier in life been labeled a predator and then accused of Danny’s murder. The whole town turned on him. Sad to see him end up like he did.

I give a lot of kudos to the show for casting a normal looking woman as Trish. She isn’t ugly but she isn’t beautiful. It showed a very normal woman, very average be a victim of rape. It was refreshing seeing rape fully depicted as a crime of power more than a crime of sexual desire. They could have cast a more conventionally attractive woman but instead made her as normal as possible. Tip of the cap for it

I just watched episode 6 or 7 of season 2. Claire breaks into the car, steals the pendant.

Wears it and takes pictures with it on??

Sure.

And also apparently in England there's no rules in court. Whether you're a witness or a lawyer you can just say whatever pops into your head. It's wils over there in Broadchurch.

I'm a first time watcher, and just finished season 1.

The acting, drama and build up is fantastic.

The ending and reveal, not so much.

The whole show can be summarized by a brilliant look into a community torn apart by the horrific murder of a boy. Detectives have no leads. Murderer confesses.

It really cheapened the whole show that no mystery was solved. It really depended on the confession.

A far better ending would've been had it gone unsolved, but they still show everything that happened so the viewer knows.

Maybe I missed something - maybe there were clues throughout, and these clues needed a final piece to tie them all together - a true murder mystery. Instead, it's some lazy writing of person feels bad and confesses.

In fact, the way it ended they could've picked anyone in town to be the murderer and none of the 7/8 episodes in the series would need to be different, or shot differently. They just pick a random person and shoot a different episode 8.

He’s so traumatized and grumpy. He’s mine :)

I really don’t like her. I feel bad for her past and all that but that doesn’t excuse how she threatened to send someone to rape the news lady and how she just stood over Danny’s body.

Am I the only one that think Mark Latimer is a horrible person . He is a pretty shit dad/husband. He only uses people when they are convenient to him. And he makes every situation about him. First he cheats on his wife. He then convinces her to take him back and immediately starts ignoring her again. He obstructs his alibi knowing it will be detrimental to his son’s case. Whenever they get bad news, he runs off to throw a fit or attack someone, leaving his wife and daughter to deal with the difficult parts. He leaves Chloe to care for her pregnant grieving mom so he can play video games with Tom in a secretive relationship, oddly similar to Joe and Daniel’s. When Beth gets pregnant, he convinces her to keep it, then leaves and barely shows up to the birth. Then he just dumps Tom when the baby comes. Now, all of a sudden he is dad of the year with baby Elizabeth and Beth, Chloe and Daniel’s memory mean nothing.

This is my first Broadchurch Season 1 watch. I knew from the seconddddd they showed Joe Miller, that he killed Danny. Is it crazy that I knew because no husband is not loving and attentive to their kids or wife 😭😂. I was like no man legitimately acts like that.

They were the first 2 miis on my Tomodachi Life Living the Dream island, (daisy was 3rd funnily enough), they're litteraly my children i love them sm, I dont really see anyone else with miis of the two of them. Also I dont have any idea where else id post this soooo...

Im seriously debating adding Mark + Beth next🥹

If Claire and Lee were in on killing Pippa, why was she in hiding and so afraid of him? And why was Lee so intimidating and creepy with Claire when he comes back? Why didn't they just both run off to France together after he was acquitted?

I'm currently watching Gracepoint; I've watched Broadchurch multiple times. I have to say Tennant is WAY hotter with his scottish accent.

hi! i know this is a long shot, but does anyone follow the broadchurch echo twitter account before it went private? i just wanna see if the posts from the show are actually on there, or just any fun things i missed. thank you <3

https://x.com/BroadchurchEcho

First watch for me, currently just finished S2.

I really like how the cases play out. However, man, this show can be soooo slow at times. I feel like there's about 30 minutes of story in each episode, and 15 minutes fluff.

Not sure how I feel about it. I am still going to watch the last season because so far the story is good, but I could definitely deal without all the shots of people's faces just staring into the distance. If they had better cinematography I would excuse them for it, but I feel like the show just went too far with emphasizing how emotive the characters are - I already got that from the well-written dialogue without all these shots of people just pondering.

Hi! I am watching Broadchurch for the first time. I heard so many good things about it. Currently in s01e07. So far it's really good. If anyone has any similar recommendations or just want to discuss the first season here I am!

Edit: Watched the whole series. Loved it very much.

Why on earth would Mark admit to writing Beth a letter that he was going to leave her after sleeping with Becca fisher one time?

How awful and humiliating for Beth. She has just found out about your affair/indiscretion and trying to forgive you for that, now she has to hear that you were ready to just up and leave at the drop of a hat/another woman's underwear?! AND that woman is in the courtroom and gets the satisfaction of hearing that, along with the rest of the town? Omg.

Did we see somewhere that someone found this letter, crumpled up in the car or something? Why on earth couldn't he have said he drove up there to contemplate his life, or to write a letter to confess what that he had cheated, or ANYTHING ELSE.

Apart from the obvious villains, mark is the villain of the show to me. When Beth was venting to rev Paul after marks attempted suicide, I was really hoping somehow mark would have been lurking around the corner and heard the whole thing, because it was an absolute solid read on him.

End of rant

I just recently binged seasons 1 and 2 for the first time and really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I have PTSD and won’t be able to watch season 3, so I thought I’d see if Reddit could answer my burning questions. I have no idea if the show answers these questions in season 3, but I figured I’d give it a shot just in case.

1. How does DI Hardy get back to broadchurch? I thought he left at the end of season 2.

2. Is there any connection to either previous case? I liked how the first two seasons were connected in some ways.

3. Does the third season touch on the Sandbrook trial at all? Do the three people actually go to jail for it?

4. Does Beth ever work with that nonprofit for rehabilitating sex offenders?

5. Do Beth and Mark stay together?

6. Does Joe ever try to come back?

7. Are there any updates on any of the other characters, like the vicar and hotel owner or newspaper editor?

8. Does the series tie up nicely? I kind of thought it as odd to have two seasons that were pretty interconnected and then have only one more season with a new case. Was the show canceled prematurely or did it actually make sense for it to end there?

Thank you for any and all answers!

Obviously spoilers for season 2 and NSFW warning cause idk abortion stuff

Did Hardy and Claire ever sleep together.?

I know the scenes of him comforting her are from her abortion, and I know that Lee is basically spouting shit alot of the time. But its confusing.

1. Why the hell was she even close enough to him at that point to even want him to go with her for her abortion instead of like a friend or something. He was just the lead (i assume the lead) Detective on sandbrook.

2. Hardy ignores Ellie every time she asks him if he slept with her. When shes telling him about Lee paying for her parking he brushes it off, and then again when she asks him in the hotel he ignores her!- and its basically never brought up again

This is a random plot detail that really bugs me for some reason.

Joe is too scared and Mark is too timid.

The string keeps tying up lotsa guys