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Broadchurch
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Series 3 - Episode 1
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Review
by
Alison Graham
Detectives Ellie Miller and Alec Hardy are called to the steps of their own police station in the middle of the night where a woman stares blankly into the distance, a single tear coursing down her cheek. She’s been raped and she’s catatonic with shock.
It’s a harrowing start to what looks like a back-on-form
Broadchurch
(let’s forget about the misfired series two), which might even be better than Chris Chibnall’s first, unforgettable story set in that deceptively calm-looking, sun-blushed Dorset town.
As Miller and Hardy (Olivia Colman and David Tennant, both so good) carefully and kindly take the victim Trish through the difficult processes involved in evidence gathering after a sexual assault, she slowly offers fractured memories of the attack.
Julie Hesmondhalgh is heartbreaking as baffled and traumatised Trish; “Why did he choose me?” while Miller and Hardy fear the worst kind of predator is loose on their patch. It’s quietly brilliant.
Summary
DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller are called in to investigate a serious sexual assault. Chris Chibnall's crime drama set in a Dorset seaside town, starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman, with Julie Hesmondhalgh, Charlie Higson, Jodie Whittaker and Lenny Henry.
Cast & Crew
DS Ellie Miller
Olivia Colman
DI Alec Hardy
David Tennant
Trish Winterman
Julie Hesmondhalgh
Ian Winterman
Charlie Higson
Beth Latimer
Jodie Whittaker
Mark Latimer
Andrew Buchan
Cath Atwood
Sarah Parish
Jim Atwood
Mark Bazeley
Ed Burnett
Lenny Henry
Clive Lucas
Sebastian Armesto
DC Katie Harford
Georgina Campbell
Maggie Radcliffe
Carolyn Pickles
Rev Paul Coates
Arthur Darvill
Chloe Latimer
Charlotte Beaumont
Daisy Hardy
Hannah Rae
Tom Miller
Adam Wilson
David Barrett
Roy Hudd
Sahana Harrison
Sunetra Sarker
Anna Palmer
Andrea Hall
Uniform Bob
Steve Bennett
Soco Brian
Peter De Jersey
Mrs Angela Dyer
Julie Cox
Linda
Jane Whittenshaw
Lizzie Latimer
Emily Allison
Executive Producer
Jane Featherstone
Executive Producer
Chris Chibnall
Producer
Richard Stokes
Writer
Chris Chibnall
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