ITV - Flesh & Blood

Definitely going to be another series.
Mark was a bit creepy though wasn’t he, not at all my cup of tea.
We both thought Mary had to have something to do with it.

Odd the comment at the end about Mark's daughter had just arrived and someone said they were very close

Yes maddyone, very creepy! I was puzzled about the Tramodol in his bloodstream, did Mary spike his drinks? And when he opened his eyes ? at the end!!!!! There has to be another series.

Oooh, I've just had a thought! Viv found the vials of medication in Marks case and I think she secretly knew about his shady past from quite early in and suspected he was up to no good. So, Viv actually spiked Marks drinks with the Tramodol as a way of stopping him bumping her off first! There you go.......... nailed it! Lol

I forgot he opened his eyes at the end!

The toxicology showed alcohol and diazepam (Valium) in his blood. I don’t recall Tramadol. But whatever, maybe Mary put diazepam in Mark’s drink?

Was the red car that was set on fire just a red herring then?

Maybe another series is on the cards. Is Vivien is still waiting for news from the hospital? I missed the bit about Mark’s daughter momb!

Did the police not interview Viv? I know she’d collapsed, but still expected them to speak to her when she recovered.
Definitely another series on the cards I think. Too many loose ends.
The torched car.
The daughter coming who he is very close to.
Helen’s job, plus her split from George.
Natalie’s probable pregnancy.
Jake’s tangled love life. (Was Leila at the lunch at the end or was it just his children?)
And of course the opened eyes at the end! Creepy Mark is not finished with yet. Watch out Mary!
Yep, watch this space next year.

I didn’t catch anything about Tramadol I thought it was Valium and thought he may have taken them himself in trepidation of the family gathering and what could go wrong
(If he is a genuine bloke) Well if there is another series and if he does recover he knows Mary did it as his eyes were on her
There is a lot of family stuff held in abeyance babies and marriages and new characters (daughter)
What accent is mark using I thought it was a cross between Irish and American ? Or is that the actors’ actual accent ?

Still puzzled about the body bag did we dream that up ?

Well I just looked up a review (written After first/ second part) and it said is Mark going to be the murderer of the body we saw at the beginning of the programme

So there was a body and we have no answers to that Who is it ?

(And Marks Northern Irish so I ve answered my own question dah)

I would have prefered it to have ended there and then. We are still speculating and will have forgotten all about it next year.

I did think it was funny when Mary took Jake's hand like a little boy.
So they are all now back to normal, all partners gone with Mary in charge.

Certainly kept us hooked over four nights. Thought the family dynamics were acted out very well. Mark's eyes opening right at the end had a "Fatal Attraction" not dead yet quality about them maybe the writers have left it open for a follow up.

Fell in love with the main star of the series, "The House" and the fact that it was located right on to the beach gave it a wow factor. Probably not so appealing right now though!

So many loose ends.

Calendargirl It was Lily, Helen's daughter, playing on the beach with the children - no sign of Layla. And yes, what about Lily, the teenage minx, posting up film clips online of her Mum being sick, and earlier having mentioned she wished she'd taken photos of her granddad when he was dead!!!

But none of the children were at the birthday party, so Lily is not likely to pop up with some vital clue that she'd filmed.

Re the body bag, I thought the police officer doing the interrogation mentioned "We have one body and one patient in hospital" plus I was positive we saw a body bag. I am thinking of watching all 4 episodes again if I can spare the time.

Definitely think there will be series 2.

Yes, Terri the house was lovely, but as someone mentioned earlier, I kept thinking about high tides and how it would get flooded. There were no sand dunes to act as a barrier.

Definitely more stories to develop from all that. Really would have liked them to be more subtle with something else at the very end rather than the simple opening of the eyes, but overall I thought it was very good.

From the Telegraph review page this morning:

“Imelda Staunton gave the standout performance as the fusspot neighbour. We had been set up to suspect her as the would-be killer, and were proved half-right – while she didn’t push Mark off the balcony, she did try to suffocate him when she found him still alive on the shingle. Deliciously, the ending hinted at a second series.”

I hoped that would be the last of it, really. Not a single character in it I could have any sympathy for. Her children were awful people, especially Jake, and I would have hopped on the first plane out with creepy Mark just to have got shot of the lot of them!

I'm going to have to watch all the episodes again. I can't remember the bodybag and having nodded off briefly during each episode, I've obviously missed very important bits.
Loved it, though. ?

Can anyone tell me what the significance was about Mark smoking the cigarette and Viv seeing him? - Mary made a comment about smoking and Viv.
Mary and Viv were obviously very close - Viv was not at all put out about the dress and she had supported Mary in her darkest hour when her baby died.

Welshwife I think re the cig it was just yet another thing that Viv didn't know about Mark .... and Mary threw in the comment that "It's a brave man who smokes around Viv" so presumably she was very anti, which he didn't know.

Imelda Staunton (as usual) was completely brilliant.

Perhaps it wasn't a body bag but Mark strapped into a stretcher being carried off the beach, maybe had been wrapped up because of hypothermia. Also Viv was in hospital as well after her collapse wasn't she? Definitely second series, lots of loose ends - did Mary set light to the car for one?

I have missed some bits of it, like Marella I dozed off! Enjoyed it though. Got to be another series surely.

It was diazepam, Urmstongran

Perhaps he was hooked but was keeping it from Viv or perhaps the extremely competent Mary spiked his drinks but she did just seem to slosh some into the glass and didn't take the glass away.

vegansrock I think we have to assume that, yes, it was Mark on the stretcher, strapped on safely if he was badly injured.

Mary has her surrogate family back, at least for the time being.

LullyDully
all partners gone with Mary in charge

Brilliant summing up!

Yes I ve just watch the beginning bit again and I think we ve all assumed it was a body bag it’s extremely dark and you just see a small portion of the stretcher with dark covering and it pans up to the balcony and you see the cracked wooden bar so it is after his fall not another body
Although I also thought the police officer in the interview said one body and one in hospital so perhaps he said one suspected body and one in hospital

It was definitely a better ending than ‘Deadwater Fall’ was.
At least the vast majority of us don’t feel we have been left
‘Tennanted’!