Broadchurch

Title: Broadchurch

Seasons or Series: 3

Episodes: 24

Studio: ITV

Created by: Chris Chibnall

Premise:

Broadchurch is a crime, mystery, and serial drama that follows the lives of the people of the town called Broadchurch after the murder of an 11-year-old Daniel “Danny” Latimer. The show explores grief, mutual suspicion, and the media attention on this little town. The show follows police detectives DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller as they try and solve the mysteries in Broadchurch.

My Thoughts:

Honestly, I’m just going to say it: I loved this show! I think this show is my favourite show that I’ve watched all this year. I enjoyed this series from beginning to end!

The show had a great cast of actors: David Tennant (the Tenth Doctor, Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter), Jodie Whittaker (the Current Doctor rn), David Bradley (Mr. Filch and Walder Frey), Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who, Legends of Tomorrow), Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones), Eve Myles (Torchwood). I’m probably missing a few but it was a very good cast and they all performed really well in this show. If I can rename this show to anything it would be the British All-Stars Murder Mystery Show. It’s amazing how they got an all-star cast just for a three-season tv show!

The show really does an excellent job of how something like murder can rip apart a whole community. It’s established very quickly and early that this is a town that is small and almost everyone knows each other. And how a murder can affect so many people in the aftermath, investigation, and even after the investigation. In Season 2 they still kept things interesting by introducing a new mystery and bringing Danny’s killer to Justice. While Season 3 did something very interesting: They introduced a new mystery that is not a murder mystery! And instead, they did a mystery about Sexual Assault. If there is one problem I have with so many mystery shows on tv these days is… it’s all murder and no other crimes. I felt that the direction in season 3 was a very interesting direction, kept the drama and it had me guessing until the very end!

I guess if I did have a nitpick, one or two episodes in the middle of season 2 did feel a little dragged out.

Other than that I truly enjoyed this series from the beginning to the end! And it’s definitely a show that I can see myself rewatching again sometime in the future!

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