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A gripping two hour drama

posted 9 years ago by Mickey77
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Sadly - it took 5 hours to tell the story.

"Thank God For Darwin"

[–] Prismark10 9 years ago

Somehow the BBC have got away with it in the ratings because it was padded.

Its that man again!!

[–] johnnymike91 8 years ago

Imagine if it had been on a US channel. It would have had 23 episodes!

[–] cpotato1010 8 years ago

Ha!

Lifetime is making it a 3-part two-hour mini-series starting April 10. Part two on April 17, part three April 24. Gotta love commercials.

Odd, this is a UK series, but near the beginning there is an aerial shot of her blue SUV driving down a narrow road and the cars and trucks appear to be parked on the wrong side of the road for the UK.

[–] Hugo-James 8 years ago

How do you mean?

I'm not much on rear-window ethics.

[–] bcgarant 8 years ago

there's a second series coming

[–] cookiela2001 8 years ago

I didn't think it seemed drawn out, at all.

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[–] liscarkat (17136) 4 years ago

It wasn't, but for many audience members if there's not a chase or a fight going on every moment, time is being wasted. That's why most of the film industry has deteriorated to superheroes and cartoons.