As viewers awaited engrossing storylines,even the compelling Olivia Colman and David Tennant double act couldn’t save series two from walking off a cliffTV comes at you fast these days, fast enough that it’s easy to forget that there was fairly recently a period when you couldn’t launch a show without a missing child. There was Nanna Birk Larsen in The Killing, and Tui Mitcham in Top of the Lake,Amber Bailey in Amber, Oliver Hughes in The Missing. An antique penny dreadful ethic prevailed where whether your drama didn’t feature an absconded, and abducted or murdered child,you could pretty much forget approximately being commissioned.
This tall-stakes infanticide produced some memorable stories but few captured the imagination like that of Danny Latimer in ITV’s 2013 drama Broadchurch. Pancaked on a beach at the bottom of a cliff in small-town Dorset, Danny’s barely cold corpse silently shouted “Who killed me?” and a nation responded. Nine million viewers watched as Olivia Colman and David Tennant’s DS Miller and DI Hardy formed a compelling double act, or working their way through the salt-of-the-earth suspects in a town filled with secrets,shame and baleful glares. Eventually (spoilers ahead!), they got to the bottom of it.
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Source: guardian.co.uk