They were delightful together— Catherine Tate is born to rattle off Shakespearean burns and their chemistry was fantastic, as always. Plus D-Ten in a Superman shirt.

The beacon fire thing got me in Return of the King because Theoden was the best. Recreating it at the end of season one of Broadchurch. Not so much.

I was going with Reverend Rory, but I like yours better.

I'm rewatching the first season, and Mark is behaving like an utter shitheel in impeding the investigation into Danny's death. What kind of person does that?

I think they're at least pointing out how it is for women; how we are always making those judgments on who to trust and who not to, and how much casual resentment there is towards us. I mean, the election showed us that, didn't it? How much they hate us. Broadchurch is just stripping it balder.

Beth will be an oral surgeon and be wearing a wig and mustache.

Hardy is deeply principled and not good with social interaction, and his respect of his female colleagues and crime victims makes him a "would." Also he looks like David Tennant.

For crying out loud, it's not about sexism. If she's being self-destructive, he needs to take the kids and let her go. Why do you not get that it's about their surviving kids, Chloe in particular, and not about them?? Oh, and that pact also said something about forsaking all others, did it not?? Any woman caught out…

HE chose not to get counseling. That's his choice, not Beth's. She's not his mommy.

You know what? I've been married for 25 years to someone with major depressive disorder. The only reason that we are still married is because I realized I can't fix him. I can rightly point out when he needs help, but I can't fix it. Trying to, which I did for the first 10 years, made us both self-destructive and…

I'm sorry, I have a hard time sympathizing with the guy who was planning to leave his wife and who lied to his wife and the police about his whereabouts during HIS OWN SON'S MURDER INVESTIGATION. And if the marriage was over before Danny's death, his death doesn't change that.
And believe it or not, wives are not…

Oh, I know. Mark has always come off as craven, short-sighted, and selfish. Beth absolutely did the right thing in distancing herself, because apparently she's the only one who's realized they still have two kids to take care of.

It's an incredibly common dynamic in marriages following the death of a child. Many, many marriages don't survive it; the ones I've been witness to certainly didn't. Beth, being pragmatic and realizing that she has two living children to care for and making as good a life as possible for them, and Mark, still mired in…

I think I had the same look on my face Miller did when Hardy refused to get any food at that catering shop.

Do the BAFTAs have an award for best performance by a pissed-off Scot? Because that should totally be a category.

Well, he does have to put up with the man who got his daughter electrocuted by a library.

I watched a LOT of westerns that had Sam Elliott in them in that formative 8-12 age range, and yeah, still totally would.
But only if he has the mustache.

His original plan with the Osirans was to have Sarah Jane shoot dynamite with a rifle and blow them to hell and gone.

I watched this after the Children Of Earth marathon, so the 'love conquers all' twidget at the end was really underwhelming. I know Who is a kids' show, but the classic series had the Doctor solving problems with desperation and cleverness, not Care Bear hug power.
Pearl Mackie, however, is a goddamned delight.

Also, the carpet in Shadow's room is nearly identical to the carpet in the Overlook's room 237, yknow, where the dead woman is in the tub.