The Children – Finale

Following on from my post at the start of the week about ITV’s “The Children”, last night we finally watched the last part.

ITV (and by extension, Lucy Gannon) that’s three hours of my life I want back, you bastards.

Talk about taking a decent idea, and then ruining it. I assume the script looked decent – otherwise Kevin Whately, Geraldine Somerville et al wouldn’t have taken it on in the first place. I could be wrong – they could have just been desperate for the work. Hard to believe, but somewhat possible.

I’m still not sure who the killer was in the end – I think it was the girl’s step-mother, but I’m not certain.

At least they didn’t do the clichéd “It was someone who hasn’t been referred to all the way through the programme, but only comes in during the last ten minutes” – but the “multiple people could have done it” option wasn’t all that much better, really.

I’d still like to see the original script, to see where things went wrong. I’d like to know what could/should have been done with it, rather than what was done with it, if that makes any sense.