Red herring? (Spoiler)
I was a huge fan of Broadchurch because it was brilliantly done. For this version, it was supposed to be another killer. While Joe has confessed, I think it's Tom, Miller's son.
shareI still feel like this is lazy writing, either way.
shareI'm beginning to see your point. It's the same.
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People, it's a REMAKE! Do you think Rhett wouldn't have said "I don't give a damn" in a remake of GWTW? I liked that it was a twist and Carver figured it out at the very end. That look!
shareExactly! A remake IS the same show. Not lazy writing. When they remade the parent trap, were you all upset that the twins parents got together in the end? After all, that's just lazy writing isn't it?
shareWhat you're both missing are comments like this from the creative team behind the show making it out to be a much different ending so people who had seen Broadchurch would have a reason to watch.
While the EPs wouldn’t definitively confirm that “Gracepoint” features a different killer than the perpetrator in “Broadchurch,” Futterman told critics that his chief desire was, “I don’t want you to rule anybody out. That’s not to be coy, but I don’t think you should rule anybody out as a suspect. We end in a very different place, which is both exciting for the season and potentially exciting for what could be a great second season as well.”Interview http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/gracepoint-broadchurch-foxs-adaptation -differs-british-original-1201265784/.
Instead we get virtually the same show with some narrative padding to fill two extra episodes with basically the same ending.
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So what? The original show was well thought out, which is why it was REMADE. Not an homage to Broadchurch, but a REMAKE.
shareSimply saying, "It's a REMAKE" is disingenuous because everyone knows it's a remake, and that's not what the complaints are about. The complaints are that, while it is a remake, the producers made it out to have substantial differences with a very different ending. That is not what it ended up being. That's the complaint, not that a remake had the same ending.
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