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Television "drama" at its worse.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/broadchurch-review-the-stakes-are-finally-high-but-can-we-forgive-the-implausible-plotlines-10049584.html Broadchurch: Can we forgive the implausible plot lines?        Last week, I posed the question "I shall continue to watch as the programme cannot get any more unbelievable.Can it?" and doubted if this "serial soap" could get any worse. I was wrong, because not only has it got worse,it has also become the vehicle for yet another gay affair/relationship. It also is incredible that the story line persists with the pacemaker nonsense of Alec telling people that he thought that he would not recover from the anesthetic. I realise that the programme was recorded some time ago, but a pair of scissors to remove this glaringly mistaken line would have not have even been noticed. I repeat what I said last week "Why Alec Hardy was lingering at deaths door and under general anesthetic...