Broadchurch: a shocking finale
Along with millions of others last night, I sat down and watched the final episode of Broadchurch . The difference was, though, I was at a live screening of the show at Bridport, in the town where much of the series was made. More details of that here . It was a shocking denouement, with no real winners, but (I thought) plenty of hope, right at the end. Broadchurch has made a great impact on my part of Dorset, and very much for the good. Writer Chris Chibnall has been embraced as 'one of our own', and we are grateful to him and his team for creating such an intelligent, beautifully-acted and shot series. It's gripped the nation, and rightly so. In the hands of others, the storyline of this last series, in particular, could have been very tacky. But it was handled with extreme sensitivity and we didn't feel bad for wanting to know who 'did' it. We wanted justice for Trish. I didn't correctly identify the culprit (I thought it was Trish's hu...