Anyone started Maryland ?

Sago

I can tell you all fact is stranger than fiction.

My husband was reunited with his birth mother, I could write 3 seasons of drama all of it true but most of it unbelievable!

My brother in law lived a double life for years. It was only a family emergency one weekend that brought it to light.

Sparklefizz

Susynan

Were I ever to have a second life, I’d go for a lover who didn’t need his shirts ironed and folded in my chest of drawers

Me too !

Perhaps he did it himself.

Susynan

Were I ever to have a second life, I’d go for a lover who didn’t need his shirts ironed and folded in my chest of drawers

Me too !

I can tell you all fact is stranger than fiction.

My husband was reunited with his birth mother, I could write 3 seasons of drama all of it true but most of it unbelievable!

Louella12, yes, apart from a few good insights into family dynamics - a real let down, quite predictable and fanciful/nostalgic.

My theory was blown out the window as my thoughts were the affair was with Cathy the American. It’s got some iffy unbelievable bits but I’ll watch the last one I think it’s tonight.

Were I ever to have a second life, I’d go for a lover who didn’t need his shirts ironed and folded in my chest of drawers

Very disappointed. Watched it all but found it to be very underwhelming

Sago

pascal30

I agree Ravenscroft the whole back story was completely implausible.. How did a woman from a modest background afford to run another home and pay for all the travelling for a start... whilst not being missed by her family in her absence..
and having spent 40 years with a very boring husband suddenly capture the heart of a rather interesting man... bonkers story..

The mother had found her birth mother, they forged a relationship and she was left the house on the IOM when her birth mother died.
As she was having an affair and her husband clearly knew but didn’t want the family to know she used the caravan in Wales as an excuse.

aware of all that but unless she'd been left a substantial amount of money my point was how did she afford the running costs and travel..

I’m enjoying it as it makes a change from all the police dramas we’ve seen recently. I’ve watched two episodes and don’t think it’s predictable. If you say you are going to a caravan in Wales, it’s easy to go to Liverpool and get on a ferry.

Calendargirl

Also think Becca’s husband comes across as pretty useless, obviously what he’s always been like.

Who would waffle on about shower gel and other trivialities when your wife is phoning you from away, suffering the sudden bereavement of her mother and then telling you she committed suicide?

Still can’t get over how old the sister looks. Strange casting.

“Where’s the shower gel?” Errrr, in the bathroom!!! 🤣🤣🤣

pascal30

I agree Ravenscroft the whole back story was completely implausible.. How did a woman from a modest background afford to run another home and pay for all the travelling for a start... whilst not being missed by her family in her absence..
and having spent 40 years with a very boring husband suddenly capture the heart of a rather interesting man... bonkers story..

The mother had found her birth mother, they forged a relationship and she was left the house on the IOM when her birth mother died.
As she was having an affair and her husband clearly knew but didn’t want the family to know she used the caravan in Wales as an excuse.

I agree Ravenscroft the whole back story was completely implausible.. How did a woman from a modest background afford to run another home and pay for all the travelling for a start... whilst not being missed by her family in her absence..
and having spent 40 years with a very boring husband suddenly capture the heart of a rather interesting man... bonkers story..

I gave up half way through Episode 2. The words 'implausible' and 'not gripping' came to mind. It seems to lack 'soul'.

Also think Becca’s husband comes across as pretty useless, obviously what he’s always been like.

Who would waffle on about shower gel and other trivialities when your wife is phoning you from away, suffering the sudden bereavement of her mother and then telling you she committed suicide?

Still can’t get over how old the sister looks. Strange casting.

Credible or not we’re enjoying it. Mr C suspects while not wanting to acknowledge it Dad did know there was another life, we’ll find out this evening.

I agree with you Primrose. I’m also struggling to understand how a woman could build and live a life somewhere else, complete with a lover, a large house, wardrobes full of clothes, a cat, and somehow her actual husband and daughter who lives near to her, don’t notice that she’s not there for long periods of time, or wonder where she goes to.
What happens to the cat when she’s not there?
The whole thing is not credible.

I enjoyed tonight's episode too, think the sisters fighting was spot on. ,Do think Stockyard miscast though.
It's filmed in Ireland not the Isle of Man.

to me this is dull, dull dull. a turn off.

I want to like it but it doesn’t add up. To furnish a house, fill it with all your favourite things, have a wardrobe full of clothes then you need to be there a lot. Yet the daughter who lives nearby never notices her mother is seldom at home nor does the husband/father.

I also had to laugh when the taxi driver told the sister he lives in the fisherman’s cottage in the village. I would imagine there is more than one fisherman’s cottage in a coastal village.

Well the islands only 30 miles by 10 miles so expect the taxi would be out and about

The tension between the daughters is slowing things down too much.

Watching episode 2.

Very convenient, that taxi just happened to be passing just when Rosaline fell when out running.

Found it quite disappointing tbh. Bit boring.
And Stockard channing looks like a completely different person which is a shame.

Did they ever ring the dad and tell him it was his wife in the mortuary?

I too thought Rosaline looked too old for the part, I assumed from the trailers she was the mother.