Anyone else watching Strike

I fell asleep and I like it but it’s a bit tedious but like you I’ll carry on.

Pleased to hear it is not only me but there is only one more episode.

I nodded off for five minutes.
Enjoyed it but I need the plot explained

Please can somebody tell me what's going on?

They are private detectives investigating something, merlotgran.

Callistemon

They are private detectives investigating something, merlotgran.

No shit, Sherlock?

I signed the Official Secrets Act, merlotgran and can divulge no more than that.?

So have the scriptwriters.

Loved the first series but this one is dire.

I think so too. It is mostly harmless and , at least, it’s home grown and made.... DH read the book earlier and said it was rubbish.
JKR seems to be writing to fill her time. Goodness knows she doesn’t need the money.

Waited ages for the book,it wasnt worth the wait, new book due out soon,I am looking forward to it,hope its better than Lethal White,and as good as her previous books

I gave up on it but meant to try again. Don't think I'll bother though. Doesn't sound as though it improves.

I think the plot is largely immaterial, I'm watching Cormoran
It does seem to have lost its way, I thought it might be the screen adaptation but you say the book is dire as well grandMattie. Hopefully the next one will be an improvement.

I am watching it, but the plot is so far fetched - when Robin found the note last night, as if!! With a whole strange house to search, during a party no less, she just happened to find it ?

Well, I’m enjoying it and know what’s going on!

Sodapop I m only watching it for Cormoran too but I must remind you I did get there first ❤️

I'm with sodapop.

I think this is the fourth series vegans.

Well I know what’s going on ladyleft but is so so far fetched nothing really rings true and if it wasn’t for watching cormaron I would have switched off long ago
A child could have written better everything is so far from what would happen that it’s a fairytale
I was soooooo looking forward to it too

Hated the books so wasn’t expecting anything better.

Well, I have to disagree with comments about the book!
I read all the Strike books during Lockdown, and thought that Lethal White was the best of the lot.
I liked The Silkworm the least.

The trouble with the tv adaptation is you can’t condense a big book into four episodes, and if I hadn’t already read it, I would be muddled about the plot, and who was who.

Also, and I hate to write this, but Tom Burke is just too gorgeous to be Cormoran, who, according to the book is ‘massive’ and very overweight. (More like Robbie Coltrane as Cracker).

However, he is sooooo gorgeous that I have to force myself to keep watching him, wondering why Robin ever married that awful Matthew when hunky Tom is just a few inches away, leaning over her computer......,

?????

Calendargirl I’m with you, read all the books when they came out and agree, compressing for TV is difficult. It’s also a pleasure having something new to watch rather than the continuous repeats.

I think film techniques don’t help. Backgrounds are dark and shady and sound is often so soft it’s difficult to hear what the characters are saying. Missing a few words and clear pictures here and there doesn’t help to put across the story on the small screen so often I’m left wondering what’s going on. Incidentally, this is the only Robert Galbraith book I couldn’t read to the end. Twice I tried and gave up. Maybe I should try again.

I agree about the darkness that often seems to happen I always use sub titles for dramas but it’s the plot that’s so far fetched thats annoyed me that scene in the parliamentary rooms with her fixing bugs while people were coming and going was laughable ...as if
Then she found Jimmy s girlfriend and got a job just like that and invited to a party where she found the note ...honest a kid would have written better then she completely outruns a man who is conveniently knocked over by a police car oh pleeeeze .will she escape to Cormran s arms now she s left Matt .? Or will that be the next cliff hanger to make you read the next book churned out

I am just pleased that there is something that is not a repeat on the box at the moment, short lived though it may be. I just love Cormoran and Robin, despite not understanding the plot, and having read the book some time ago.