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BBC drama -- The Cry (limited series)

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Leigha Offline
This limited series (only four episodes total) is a Scottish-Australian production, and is quite good! It's twisty, somewhat dark, yet captivating...a story about a couple who deals with an unfathomable family tragedy, while in the midst of traveling to Australia to visit family. They come under the public eye and face persistent scrutiny, as they start falling into a psychological pit of despair.

The performances are all so convincing, gut-wrenching, and so much is packed into four episodes! Jenna Coleman is spectacular as ''Joanna'' the main character. You may find yourself watching it twice, after you put all of the moving parts together, the first time.

Nothing is quite what it seems, though.
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Leigha Offline
(Mar 4, 2021 04:25 AM)C C Wrote: Will add it to our "Australian stuff to binge on" later this year.

Noticing elsewhere what the tragedy seems to revolve around (while surely minus a wild dog factor), the first thing that popped into my mind was the Meryl Streep moment below. That was made even more famous by Elaine on "Seinfeld" mocking it. Wink


https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/coPevaETtnM


https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/sYTIGXvc88Y

haha I just caught this. Big Grin

Have you had a chance to watch this series yet, CC?
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A while back I must have started to watch 'The Cry' - on your suggestion I looked at it again and it picked up where I left off - with a girl crying - so I stopped watching it (again). There should be an 'Emotional content' warning at the start of these things - in fairness 'The Cry' turned out to be fair representation of the content.
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Leigha Offline
Lol ^

True, but interestingly I didn’t cry myself watching this series. The investigation (the main point of the plot) is very gripping, and eventually the crying stops lol
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(Apr 4, 2021 04:51 AM)Leigha Wrote: Have you had a chance to watch this series yet, CC?

Hopefully soon. Even though it's only four episodes (perhaps the length of "Zack Synder's Justice League" when combined), I'm having a devil of a time getting anything squeezed in between hubby's binge-watching of "exalted" stuff like Killjoys, the last six episodes of The Walking Dead's tenth season, and Lucifer season 5b. Not to mention he finally wants to see all seven seasons of Bosch when that concludes a bit later. Sheesh. Thank goodness the sixth season of "Better Call Saul" is delayed till next year.

EDIT: Just finished the first episode.
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Finished the 3rd episode. Though it seems pretty clear-cut, now, might be a lingering twist in the 4th.
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(Apr 7, 2021 04:42 AM)C C Wrote: Finished the 3rd episode. Though it seems pretty clear-cut, now, might be a lingering twist in the 4th.

Keep watching. Cool

Not sure if this is just me, but I kept thinking...why didn't Joanna decline traveling with Alistair to Australia? You dug this hole dude, you'll have to go there without me. Dodgy
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(Apr 7, 2021 05:10 AM)Leigha Wrote:
(Apr 7, 2021 04:42 AM)C C Wrote: Finished the 3rd episode. Though it seems pretty clear-cut, now, might be a lingering twist in the 4th.

Keep watching.  Cool

Not sure if this is just me, but I kept thinking...why didn't Joanna decline traveling with Alistair to Australia? You dug this hole dude, you'll have to go there without me.  Dodgy

Still not sure why Alistair photographed Joanna standing over the burial spot. I guess it really was just ghoulish "art" or morbid, secret gloating on his part. Since it's difficult to construe the act as any kind of added "insurance policy" that would ever successfully pin the blame on her, if the scheme yet went awry in the future.

With the house completed and the floorboards potentially clouding the exact location in his memory, it also seems unlikely that it could literally be such, though at least in the neighborhood or vicinity. Reminiscent of Jimmy Hoffa land.
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(Apr 8, 2021 02:48 AM)C C Wrote:
(Apr 7, 2021 05:10 AM)Leigha Wrote:
(Apr 7, 2021 04:42 AM)C C Wrote: Finished the 3rd episode. Though it seems pretty clear-cut, now, might be a lingering twist in the 4th.

Keep watching.  Cool

Not sure if this is just me, but I kept thinking...why didn't Joanna decline traveling with Alistair to Australia? You dug this hole dude, you'll have to go there without me.  Dodgy

Still not sure why Alistair photographed Joanna standing over the burial spot. I guess it really was just ghoulish "art" or morbid, secret gloating on his part. Since it's difficult to construe the act as any kind of added "insurance policy" that would ever successfully pin the blame on her, if the scheme yet went awry in the future.

With the house completed and the floorboards potentially clouding the exact location in his memory, it also seems unlikely that it could literally be such, though at least in the neighborhood or vicinity. Reminiscent of Jimmy Hoffa land.

Wondered this, too - Alistair is a textbook narcissist so perhaps he took the photograph to mark “getting away with it.” What was your take on Alistair’s relationship with his mom?
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