Hinterland

[quizzywig]

Having thoroughly enjoyed the first three Hinterlands (BBC4) Mr Q and I were very disappointed with the last one on Monday. We found out nothing about DCI Mathias, which seemed revelant in the other episodes, and why it seemed necessary for him to skiv off a murder case to nip in bed with the victim's mother is beyond me! If there is another series, I don't thinks we'll be watching.

[Mrsspagnoli57]

I watched it on I Player this afternoon and thought it absolutely brilliant!! The brief relationship Mathias had with the victims mother seemed to be born of their mutual distress-she at her daughter he at what he has lost with his own daughters and was rather lovely IMO. There is to be a second series and I say bring it on. This was high class in all aspects-sad you didn't enjoy the last one but I guess we all have differing views don't we?

[Jomlett]

^^GPWM^^Mrs S

[Colmc54]

I just wanted to say that Hinterland is the best cop drama I've seen on UK television in a long time. I very nearly didn't watch it at the start because the BBC announcer gave the impression it was in Welsh with English subtitles. However, because I am a BBC4 veteran of The Bridge, Borgen...I was not put off and was surprised to find the main spoken language was actually English.

First I have to say how intriguing it is to live in a truly bi-lingual country. We in England will have to wait a while yet before we find out, especially as we can have little idea of which of the many languages now competing in England will come to replace English within the next century.

I have visited mid-Wales, and am familiar with the sites where the series was filmed. It affects you from the start. You realise you are in a part of the planet that has been long abused and exploited by the Romans and then their neighbours to the East. Still they cling on to their culture and their language even now, and what is not deserving of respect for that.

I feel, by keeping the dialogue often to a minimum, the locations they are filmed in become central to the plot. It's risky but for me it works.

As for Mathias, we can see he has troubles but they are not, so far in this series, explored because we, by now, should be feeling he has arrived in a place where his troubles are as nothing to those of the people he is charged with investigating.

In short-I'm hooked!

[Mrsspagnoli57]

Thanks Jomlett and Good point Colmc54. The whole point for me was that both characters were 'damaged goods' there for each other at that time and as previously said it was filmed rather beautifully and a million miles away from 'nipping into bed with the victims mother'.

[Colmc54]

For the first time on BBC we saw two people reaching out to each other in the devastation of intense grief. As one whose life has been spent in a personal search for a solution to the never-ending problem of loss, I found the reaching out towards each other of two needy people among the most touching of scenes I have watched on TV.

[quizzywig]

I understand what you're saying Colm, but it not just have been a big hug instead of the inevitable jumping into bed?

[black_cat51]

i have to agree witht he ones who thought it was great; unexpected, yes, but great all the same.
although perhaps this was in no small part down to the fact mathius is so nice to look at i found the sex scene very, well, sexy!

[Colmc54]

I found the sex scene was brilliantly portrayed. It almost seemed to me that the characters were not enjoying it at all. But yet in their union they still found a crumb of comfort. Who, in the real world, would deny anyone that, if was between two people with nobody else who could be hurt.