Question for those who have seen all episodes 1-8:
Now that we have seen episodes 1-7, do we viewers have enough FACTS as of the end of last night’s episode that we should be able to figure out who killed Danny?
**Or **
Is there still some essential fact to be revealed next week that we don’t know yet that will tell us who the killer is?
I don’t mean do we have hunches at this point, or clues, or that we’ve watched so danged many police shows that we can deduce who the killer is because after a while you get a feel for plotting this kind of program, but, in fact, have enough **facts **been revealed to us viewers through the end of episode 7 to identify the killer?
Not IMHO. The leads line up logically, but I don’t think there are any hidden clues that would allow you to definitively figure it out before the cops do. Which I suppose in a sense is as it should be.
It was episode 7 where my wife and I solved it, so I think you actually can. We both looked at each other during that episode and solved it simultaneously.
When Miller said to Susan, “How could it go on in your own house and you not know?” right then I concluded that it had to be her husband. Miller has to be at the heart of this story. But that’s more from just watching a zillion police shows, not based on evidence or anything.
Caught up on the last two episodes. Picked up four good “clues” but only two were things that would have alerted me if I hadn’t known in advance.
I thought the Susan-Nigel subplot was a bit far out, and the scene where Nigel points the crossbow at Susan’s dog ticked me off.
The scene with Beth and the other mother was really good. When the other mother described how she couldn’t move on – sleeping, drinking, taking pills, etc. – I thought “You’re wasting your life – get help!” Then I realized that I can’t even imagine what that woman had gone through, and that I had no right to judge her. It was an eye-opener.
Another good scene was the Latimer daughter and her boyfriend – both in the happy place and at dinner with the parents. Although I don’t quite understand why they were so upset that he’s “older”. 17 is too old?
I need to watch the episode again, but I didn’t catch part of Susan’s story. As I heard it, her husband was sexually abusing their older daughter and was about to do so to the younger, at which point the older daughter “got herself killed”? So did the husband kill the older daughter or did she commit suicide?
He’s an adult. The age of consent in England is 16, and the daughter is 15: it would almost be like a 19-year-old going out with a 17-year-old here, except over there the difference between 15 and 17 is bigger than simply two years (especially in small towns/rural areas, where at 15 you’re still in school but at 17 you’re likely working full-time). It would be more like a working 18-year-old going out with a 15-year-old: just enough of an age difference to raise an eyebrow.
I can’t remember too clearly but is that really about the parents not wanting history to repeat (Beth getting pregnant very young) … being protective, maybe.
This also ticked me off. And when Miller said to Susan if you don’t talk to me, I’ll find your dog and have it put down. And when Nigel said to Susan, I’ll gut this dog while you sleep. This was just TOO MUCH manipulation of the viewer. I hate that kind of thing.
And usually if there’s a dog early in a film, the dog is toast by the end of the film. It’s a cheap way to get an emotional reaction from the audience and I resent it to high heaven.
It was definitely ambiguous to say “got herself killed.” I noticed that at the time and wondered what was the point of having her say it that way.
Later I believe Susan said that her H killed the girl. Did others hear that, too?
“Got herself killed” meant the husband killed the daughter. That’s why he was in prison.
And that’s an interesting way for Susan to say it. Sometimes mothers blame daughters for incest, and “got herself killed” sounds like that’s what Susan was doing. Susan is a mess.
She mentions that the younger daughter resisted. Perhaps she blames the daughter to a point. If she had just submitted, no one would have died and they could have gone on at least pretending to be a happy family.