TV #64 of 2021: Broadchurch, season 3 This last run of Broadchurch is its strongest yet, although it’s a bit of a departure in two key ways. First, the central case is a rape, which of necessity entails a different sort of investigation than the child murder of previous seasons. And second, an entirely new …
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TV Review: Broadchurch, season 2
TV #54 of 2021: Broadchurch, season 2 There are two major plots in the second run of this British crime drama, each building reasonably off the first year, which ended with a surprise arrest for the murder of little Danny Latimer. These intersect to a certain degree simply because some of the same people are …
TV Review: Broadchurch, season 1
TV #41 of 2021: Broadchurch, season 1 Like any good mystery, this series derives its power not from the hook of its whodunnit alone — the case of a young boy found murdered on the shore of a quiet British beach town — and all the ensuing twists, but from the rich character histories that …
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