Until I Kill You (ITV Drama)

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cuprabob

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15,704 posts

221 months

Sunday 3rd November
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Starts tonight on ITV1 at 9pm, although all 4 episodes are available on ItvX. Based on a true story and has a good cast, including Shaun Evans and Anna Maxwell Martin. It has all the ingredients of being quite good,but we'll see.

ETA: it's being shown over 4 consecutive nights and concluding with a documentary on Thursday night telling the true story.

Edited by cuprabob on Sunday 3rd November 14:35

abzmike

9,295 posts

113 months

Monday 4th November
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Just finished all 4 episodes and it’s well worth a watch. A deviant killer, and a victim horribly let down by the system. Chilling all round and great performance by Anna Maxwell Martin.

P-Jay

10,797 posts

198 months

Tuesday 5th November
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It's very good, probably deserves more of an audience amongst the PH demographic.

If I had to pick holes "Are you American?" really? of the 3 or 4 accents being attempted, Yank ain't one of them wink

essayer

9,626 posts

201 months

Tuesday 5th November
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This was excellent. Fantastic performance from Anna Maxwell Martin

KittyLitter

1,078 posts

7 months

Tuesday 5th November
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Her accent was a bit all over the place at times but I rate it the best crime drama of the year since Mr Bates.

Boxster5

811 posts

115 months

Tuesday 5th November
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KittyLitter said:
Her accent was a bit all over the place at times but I rate it the best crime drama of the year since Mr Bates.
We’re halfway through - really good and rather disturbing. Agree with the accent - it is all over the place!

coppice

8,909 posts

151 months

Wednesday 6th November
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Gripping watch , wonderfully acted . I think the accent is deliberate and what you might get from a London resident Australian who had spent time in Canada and USA. Her performance is mesmerising and what is so interesting is that the victim here is stroppy , unlikable, furious and bloody awkward - far from the stereotype of 'innocent ' and sympathetic crime victims .

cuprabob

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15,704 posts

221 months

Wednesday 6th November
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Finished it last night and it did live up to the billing.

Smollet

11,757 posts

197 months

Wednesday 6th November
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Very compelling drama. Well worth a watch.

Jayzee

2,448 posts

211 months

Wednesday 6th November
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Resisted the binge watch, so watching it as it’s being aired each night. Absolutely brilliant and terribly frightening at the same time.

Gary29

4,317 posts

106 months

Wednesday 6th November
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I thought Anna acted it really well, the accent was deliberately all over the place.

I did see a few modern cars in some of the long shots though, think I saw a dark grey/silver Audi circa 2016 parked up in a shot from 1998 redcard


essayer

9,626 posts

201 months

Wednesday 6th November
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I tried to scrutinise every car for historical correctness but the changing timeline made it hard. Pretty sure I saw a mid-90s E46 wink

I wonder if they just had a small set of cars and shuffled them about biggrin

daqinggregg

3,083 posts

136 months

Wednesday 6th November
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Got to agree with others, the accent is bloody annoying, although am I wrong in assuming she may in some part ‘be on the spectrum’ hence the difficult behaviour.

Watching it with Mrs DG, only finished the second episode; I think we may be lucky, in that we have no idea were this is going as strange as that sounds.

Contrary to what we are told, we think this year has been a good for year real life and fictional televised crime dramas; finishing on a high it would seem.





cuprabob

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15,704 posts

221 months

Wednesday 6th November
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daqinggregg said:
Contrary to what we are told, we think this year has been a good for year real life and fictional televised crime dramas; finishing on a high it would seem.
yes

P-Jay

10,797 posts

198 months

Wednesday 6th November
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daqinggregg said:
am I wrong in assuming she may in some part ‘be on the spectrum’ hence the difficult behaviour.
I thought the same. That said, I know from personal experience that people will serve anxiety / PTSD will often mask it with anger, trying to shut down the conversation before it becomes too painful for them.

She came across a 'bit spectrumy' at the start, before it turned nasty, but certainly more PTSD towards the end.

cuprabob

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15,704 posts

221 months

Wednesday 6th November
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P-Jay said:
daqinggregg said:
am I wrong in assuming she may in some part ‘be on the spectrum’ hence the difficult behaviour.
I thought the same. That said, I know from personal experience that people will serve anxiety / PTSD will often mask it with anger, trying to shut down the conversation before it becomes too painful for them.

She came across a 'bit spectrumy' at the start, before it turned nasty, but certainly more PTSD towards the end.
It may clarified in the documentary tomorrow night.

abzmike

9,295 posts

113 months

Wednesday 6th November
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cuprabob said:
P-Jay said:
daqinggregg said:
am I wrong in assuming she may in some part ‘be on the spectrum’ hence the difficult behaviour.
I thought the same. That said, I know from personal experience that people will serve anxiety / PTSD will often mask it with anger, trying to shut down the conversation before it becomes too painful for them.

She came across a 'bit spectrumy' at the start, before it turned nasty, but certainly more PTSD towards the end.
It may clarified in the documentary tomorrow night.
Thanks fo rthe heads up on the documentary.
Her vulnerability was exploited by her attacker, as well as her unwillingness/inability to get rid of him and to seek external help.

The Mad Monk

10,612 posts

124 months

Thursday 7th November
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I watched all of the remaining episodes last night, including the catch up documentary at the end.

A good watch, in my opinion.

DSLiverpool

15,135 posts

209 months

Thursday 7th November
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Didn’t finish the first episode it just cannot have happened like that.
Shes not totally mad and his really obnoxious behaviour would end any new relationship.

daqinggregg

3,083 posts

136 months

Thursday 7th November
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DSLiverpool said:
Didn’t finish the first episode it just cannot have happened like that.
Shes not totally mad and his really obnoxious behaviour would end any new relationship.
Are you sure of that, usually if something doesn’t sit easy with me, I’m easy to dismiss it. Being attractive to a much younger man, along with her own unusual personality, could have skewed things a bit.

I’ve met some women, (often well educated) who seem to make some very odd partner choices, almost as if opposites attract; eventually things always end badly and its of to the bad choice races again.

I guess the documentary will make it clearer. smile