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Intruder.

(46 Posts)
Calendargirl Mon 05-Apr-21 22:02:33

Anyone else just watched this on Channel 5? Another drama over four successive nights.

I have a sneaking feeling it will end up like that recent Jill Halfpenny one, or the one a while ago set in Ireland, about a dead author wife and the widower’s new girlfriend.

So memorable I cannot recall the titles!

Delila Fri 09-Apr-21 11:23:48

Perish the thought!

henetha Fri 09-Apr-21 11:21:50

Perhaps there will be a second series to see if she gets her
come-uppance grin

tiredoldwoman Fri 09-Apr-21 11:16:31

Yes, it was rubbish but I liked the ending ! She's going to haunted forever !

henetha Fri 09-Apr-21 11:07:48

I bet it won't win a BAFTA

Gingster Fri 09-Apr-21 08:50:31

What a waste of 4 nights viewing! Dreadful!

Delila Thu 08-Apr-21 23:53:18

Truly awful - cheap and nasty.

BlueBelle Thu 08-Apr-21 22:58:42

Not the best was it ?

silverlining48 Thu 08-Apr-21 22:55:25

I have to agree what a waste of time ( it’s lucky ? I have a lot of it at present). Nonetheless wish I had not ? bothered.

Gannygangan Thu 08-Apr-21 22:47:11

Absolute nonsense. Pointless. Pathetic. The acting was appalling. Nothing made sense.

And I watched it!

LauraNorder Thu 08-Apr-21 22:44:09

Four wasted hours. What a load of garbage.

Jaxjacky Thu 08-Apr-21 11:43:12

trisher same, watched the first, mentally signed off. DH has watched the rest while I read, resisting making comment!

lemsip Thu 08-Apr-21 10:56:47

Tim Dynevor is the actor and writer Husband of Sally Dynevor Corrie star. He also writes for Emmerdale and that's why there is so much copying of storylines I think.

trisher Thu 08-Apr-21 09:42:35

I've given up. Watched the first episode and thought it was a bit silly. Watched half the second and wished somebody would murder them all. The police are obviously corrupt and in the drug baron's power. But surely the newspaper and TV people would have been all over this.

Maggiemaybe Thu 08-Apr-21 09:20:04

I really don’t know why I’m doing this to myself, but I’ll be watching tonight more in hope than expectation of it having a decent ending. I really should know better, after Finding Alice and The Drowning!

The plot and acting in this one has been so bad, it’s in danger of being a classic comedy.

Gingster Thu 08-Apr-21 08:36:18

I’m still sticking with it but my goodness it really isn’t good.
Usually like Sally Lindsay but how badly cast is she. I wouldn’t want her as a liaison officer. Weak and watery!
There have been some stinkers lately .... Finding Alice, The drowning, and now this one. Very disappointing!

Gannygangan Thu 08-Apr-21 08:22:42

No idea what's going on in The Intruder.

I shall watch tonight but no doubt I'll be just as clueless

What an awful bunch of characters they all are

I don't care what happens to any of them

silverlining48 Wed 07-Apr-21 23:02:06

Oh I didn’t like the drowning and am underwhelmed by the Intruder, very disappointing,

Delila Wed 07-Apr-21 20:56:52

I can only imagine we are being led up the garden path, and nothing is as it seems, the viewer is being deceived. I’m expecting fireworks in the next two episodes.

Calendargirl Wed 07-Apr-21 13:01:48

Sally Lindsay always sounds like that, whatever role she’s playing.

fevertree Wed 07-Apr-21 12:51:25

Oh, and I forgot to grumble about the Family Liaison Officer. Would the same one really be appointed to both families? Plus if anyone spoke to me with a robotic delivery in an emotive situation like that, I would have her out of the door faster than she could say Family Liaison Officer ...

Calendargirl Wed 07-Apr-21 12:51:21

Someone with the surname ‘Dynevor’ is the producer I think.

Another ‘Dynevor’ was a co-writer for ‘The Drowning’, another silly four-nighter.

Probably related.

fevertree Wed 07-Apr-21 12:47:41

I find it interesting that no one so far has mentioned the fact that most of the middle class dinner party bunch were coked up by the end of the evening. Is this standard behaviour nowadays amongst the younger middle class set and not even worth a mention?

I'm sorry for the boy who was stabbed to death, and for his dad. Not sorry for any of the other characters, including his mate who didn't seem to have one iota of sympathy for the fact that his friend was killed!

Who writes this rubbish?! None of the principal characters seemed real to me (I only watched Episode 1).

LauraNorder Wed 07-Apr-21 12:30:35

More holes than a tetley’s teabag. After they disposed of the rug with all that blood did nobody notice the lack of blood? Apart from a broken lamp there was no sign of a struggle. Why didn’t the police ask why the girlfriend knifed the burglar instead of pulling him off, she’s quite a big girl and he was a puny kid. Why did the police take the word of the householders. Why has the body been released when forensics are incomplete, there would be obvious signs that the body had been moved.
The girlfriend’s behaviour was quite normal considering her long time affair with her friend and colleagues husband. Then in episode two she suddenly became a bunny boiler.
So much is not believable which makes for difficult viewing.
I am, though, intrigued that there is more too it than meets the eye with the mystery of the other burglar and the missing laptop and so will persevere.

Newatthis Wed 07-Apr-21 11:37:30

Yes I thought about forensics as well. The police just took their word for it, they didn't even question why the victim was lying on his back and not is front. I'll give it another go though. I didn't particularly like the characters either and I think it might be a little predictable.

henetha Wed 07-Apr-21 11:32:29

I quite like it, - only quite though. I find the lead actor a bit annoying, but the rest are ok-ish. I'll stick with it though, probably. I like things on consecutive evenings. It's something to look forward to.