[TV] The Serpent BBC 1

[Return of the Rev]

It’s put me of going to Bangkok and glad 5hat my kids and I have never been there.
As far as &lash backs are concerned, how the hell you can keep up with where you are when they go forward and backwards in random numbers of months I will never know.
How many more weeks of this have we got being confused?

Best give Dr Who a miss

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Having finished 'Shaggerton' yesterday (imagine the Bronte's with copious bonking ), this is next on our list, along with Spiral.

"Ride & Prejudice" as one Albion fan called it on Twitter.

 

[knocky1]

Best give Dr Who a miss

 

[AmexRuislip]

I thought that about an episode of Silent Witness I'd recorded once, before I realised I was watching it on rewind.

I wonder if Schteeeeeve McClaren was ever offered the job as ambassador in the Dutch Embassy

 

[Birdie Boy]

I started this last night, completed 4, and I think it is very good. The flashbacks are fine, forwards are to the embassy Dutch bloke and backwards are to the killings/killer. A very clever way of showing the story. The only thing that gets me is how trusting these long haired ones are of strangers in a strange country. It's like they deserve what they get but obviously they don't.

 

[happypig]

I thought that about an episode of Silent Witness I'd recorded once, before I realised I was watching it on rewind.

When iPlayer was new(ish) I didn't realise it lined up the next episode so I watched something, cannot remember what, but only watched episodes 1,3 & 5 before I gave up cos I couldn't follow what was going on

 

[Hamilton]

Just finished it. Brilliant stuff.

My daughter went travelling alone in Thailand last year. While I know it's a totally different age, thank goodness I didn't watch it before she went.

 

[bardo]

I've taken to binge watching during lockdown like never before. Watched every series of 'Line of Duty' in about two weeks. But 'The Serpent' is different; I find the early episodes are so tense it's difficult to binge on, especially if I watch just before bedtime. I lived through the 60's but makes me glad I didn't do backpacking apart from music festivals!

 

[Pembury]

Mrs Pembury and I just finished it this afternoon. Best bit of TV since the Queens Gambit I reckon, I thought they portrayed Jenna Coleman’s character Marie-Andree as a bit too innocent, and had to concentrate on the backward forwarding. But yeah very good.

I did cheat a couple of times and looked up Wikipedia to see who he killed next. Can’t really handle suspense.

 

[Horses Arse]

I like it when I discover new music via film and television drama. Tonight it was this little number at the end of episode 5 by an artist I'd never heard of before, the late Karen Dalton, a contemporary of Bob Dylan and part of the Greenwich Village 1960s folk scene and a bit of a complex and troubled figure by all accounts. I think this song is beautiful...

https://youtu.be/CsYHN7eCCtU

Damn right, same for me with "End of the F@cking World" where I came across this. Lovely track, didn't like much of her other stuff though

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[Rogero]

The Serpent. Wow,this is gripping tv at its best. My wife could not sleep after episode three and I watched it and had to report back to her. We watched the final episode today and the guy is slippery until the end. 10/10 from me.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I started this last night, completed 4, and I think it is very good. The flashbacks are fine, forwards are to the embassy Dutch bloke and backwards are to the killings/killer. A very clever way of showing the story. The only thing that gets me is how trusting these long haired ones are of strangers in a strange country. It's like they deserve what they get but obviously they don't.

Can't remember where I heard in the last few weeks - might even have been Serpent ...

Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.

Quite like that as a mantra for life - would I ever take a tablet from someone I don't know? I'd like to think I'm smarter than that ...

 

[Gotsmanov]

Sensational telly.

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[darters74]

Brilliant

 

[Vicar!]

I look at those kids and think I would never have been that gullible. Then I remember getting into a bus station half way to Krabie, at the back of the bunch of hustlers meeting the bus was a West Country lad, who offered me a lift to his riverside lodge which he managed. Off I went. All fine of course, it was its own long stay community, bunch of girls with sundry babies, tight knit group. Made me welcome and spent a gorgeous few days in the rain forest.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Agree.

2 more episodes to go as well. Who'd have thought Tim Mcinnerny would be so good?

Not seen this series, but if you saw Tim in 'Spooks' - **** me, he was frightening.

 

[Southern Scouse]

I watched the whole lot after two episodes. It was confusing, but worth the effort.
I also liked finding out the personal stories of the main characters at the end. Good stuff,

 

[John Byrnes Mullet]

Excellent. Also recently enjoyed binge watching Ratchet and The Alienist.

 

[Official Old Man]

Finished last night. Why did he do what he did in the last 20 minutes of the last episode?

 

[Driver8]

Finished last night. Why did he do what he did in the last 20 minutes of the last episode?

According to Wikipedia he didn’t.

On 1 September 2003 Sobhraj was spotted by a journalist for The Himalayan Times in a casino in Kathmandu. The journalist followed him for a fortnight and then wrote a news report in The Himalayan Times with photographs. The Nepal police saw the report, raided the Casino Royale in Yak and Yeti hotel and arrested a blissfully unaware Sobhraj, who was still gambling there. According to the newspaper, Sobhraj had returned to Kathmandu to set up a mineral water business. The Nepal police reopened the double murder case from 1975 and got Sobhraj sentenced to life imprisonment by the Kathmandu district court on 20 August 2004 for the murders of Bronzich and Carrière.