Broadchurch

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Season 2
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
6.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 120 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 88 out of 120
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 120
  3. Negative: 21 out of 120
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  1. EPMD
    Jul 17, 2016
    3
    Season 2 is not worth your time. It will not enhance your enjoyment of Season 1...quite the contrary. Season 2 offers a frustrating mess of irritating court scenes seemingly designed to annoy fans of the show. There is also some exploration of an old case with a new set of characters, but the show does a horrible job of making us care even 10% as much about that case as we cared about theSeason 2 is not worth your time. It will not enhance your enjoyment of Season 1...quite the contrary. Season 2 offers a frustrating mess of irritating court scenes seemingly designed to annoy fans of the show. There is also some exploration of an old case with a new set of characters, but the show does a horrible job of making us care even 10% as much about that case as we cared about the investigation in Season 1.… Expand
  2. oDjento
    Mar 5, 2015
    3
    I am going to be brutally honest about this season, it was one of the worst TV series I’ve watched in a while. I LOVED season 1: it was mysterious, unpredictable and with plenty of interesting and diverse characters to get invested. Season 2 however dumps all over season 1.
    Firstly, the characters. I liked and was interested or intrigued by all the characters in the first season and they    I am going to be brutally honest about this season, it was one of the worst TV series I’ve watched in a while. I LOVED season 1: it was mysterious, unpredictable and with plenty of interesting and diverse characters to get invested. Season 2 however dumps all over season 1.
    Firstly, the characters. I liked and was interested or intrigued by all the characters in the first season and they really are part of what made season 1 brilliant. For season 2 they attempt to introduce new characters and none of them are enjoyable, the main reason anyone will be watching season 2 is for the original characters like Hardy and Miller. Jocelyn is more annoying than the “sassy” old good lawyer she seems like she is meant to be and seems almost lost/completely incompetent at her job. Ashworth seems like the stereotypical intimidating villain at first that obviously isn’t the real “bad guy” even though he isn’t fully good. His character is two notes really on acting. Claire tries to be the wild card on not knowing what she is telling the truth about but she’s more just pretty bland and uncomfortable to watch. Bishop is the only new character that plays her part well (and you can tell that because you really loathe her) but is still not enjoyable to watch due to how she develops the plot.
    And now the plot. Season 1 again, awesome plot, season 2 is half assed and unentertaining. Comparing again, season 1’s twists are great and made you excited for the next episode, but season 2’s episode twists were so dull and repetitive. It usually consisted of someone not knowing something in the court room and having to have someone else speak and the people in the court room would all look shocked (oh no, twist…). And then also what Bishop speaks in the courtroom Is complete trash, you would never be allowed to do what she does in the courtroom. The courtroom scenes are boring and just reused over and over, and the Sanbrook case seems uninteresting as you just can’t get attached to it in the same way as the Broadchurch case, they just really wanted to squeeze it in. Side plots are also made and then dropped suddenly and then some plots seems so unnecessary. It’s piss annoying to be frank.
    The series started like it could go somewhere but doesn’t pick up, it becomes stale fast. Sure some direction and cinematography is nice at times but that can’t save this at all for all its major flaws. This season can best be summed by a fan of season one in a single word; frustrating.    … Expand
  3. michaelinperson
    Jul 26, 2020
    2
    Many plot points are overshadowed by highlights from Broadchurch's first series having been dragged into season 2 to unspeakably distasteful and poorly executed measures. It becomes frustrating and exhausting for us to power through meaningless character dialogue and mundane interaction when we have been beaten down into disappointment time and time again after knowing how courtroom scenesMany plot points are overshadowed by highlights from Broadchurch's first series having been dragged into season 2 to unspeakably distasteful and poorly executed measures. It becomes frustrating and exhausting for us to power through meaningless character dialogue and mundane interaction when we have been beaten down into disappointment time and time again after knowing how courtroom scenes have purposely failed to provide us any gratification left to salvage from our unsettling awareness that Joe Miller has pleaded "not guilty" in the start of his trial, and may, in a highly likely scenario, get off scot free.
    The issue with which we must compare season 2 to season 1 is its derivativeness in finding credibility in the way it decides to finish things once in for all, even when the end-product might come to our greatest dissatisfaction and disapproval. Closing scenes are but a disgraceful attempt at uplifting viewers, the victim's family, and the wife of the child molester, to reverse what damage cannot be undone.    … Expand
  4. AlMcFly
    Sep 1, 2018
    3
    Season 1 of Broachurch? Extremely compelling. 7 - 8 out of 10 rating. My girlfriend and I watched it from start to finish.

    Season 2? Garbage. I turned it off in the middle of Episode 3 much to the annoyance of my girlfriend. I just could not stand to watch how they made a mockery of English courtroom proceedings since the very beginning of episode 1, it's sickening the artistic    Season 1 of Broachurch? Extremely compelling. 7 - 8 out of 10 rating. My girlfriend and I watched it from start to finish.

    Season 2? Garbage. I turned it off in the middle of Episode 3 much to the annoyance of my girlfriend. I just could not stand to watch how they made a mockery of English courtroom proceedings since the very beginning of episode 1, it's sickening the artistic liberties this show thought it could get away with.

    Also the number of sub-human characters sh*tting all over Ellie, it's unbearable. Season 1 made me feel unending passion and sympathy for the mother of Danny Latimer. By Season 2 episode 2, she had already become a truly detestable human being.

    No thank you.    … Expand

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#72 Best TV Season of 2015
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#88 Most Discussed TV Season of 2015
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#100 Most Shared TV Season of 2015

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Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    Mar 4, 2015
    80
    Mostly it’s great to see Tennant and Colman try to put back the pieces of the wrecked lives of Hardy and Miller.
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  2. The Huffington Post
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    Mar 4, 2015
    40
    Given how wonderful its first season was, the fact that Broadchurch has turned into such a muddle is the bigger disappointment. Despite the usual array of finely calibrated performances, the second season simply doesn't work, in large part because it consciously and deliberately undoes much of what was powerful about the shattering conclusion to the first season.
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  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Mar 4, 2015
    60
    The new elements and mostly the performances make it worth staying around to see what other secrets lurk within.
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