The Replacement

2017

Seasons & Episodes

  • 1
6.6| NR| en| More Info
Released: 28 February 2017 Ended
Producted By: BBC
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h622q
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A woman who goes on maternity leave becomes increasingly paranoid about the motives of the person covering for her.

Genre

Drama

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Director

Joe Ahearne

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BBC

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The Replacement Audience Reviews

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped
Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
motman-42914 Started with the promise of plenty of suspense in the first two episodes.However the climax was totally unbelievable and lacked any logic. Also I think it could have been filmed in just two episodes and not as three. I now regret having wasting my time watching this series. A disappointment as it started so well.
dawright-26780 What a shame this drama had such a poor ending. I was engrossed at the start and after the 2nd episode of this 3 part drama I was looking forward to a gripping finale. The whole series was ruined in my opinion in the last 15 to 20 minutes due to an ending that was poorly written, contradicting and made little sense.Ellen's baby was kidnapped from her home by Paula (straight forward enough) with Ellen desperately trying to locate Paula and her baby. Paula phoned Ellen demanding she meet with her if she wanted to see her baby again. That would have been a good time to let others know what is happening and where you are going... but no she didn't do that? She finds herself in a car with Paula and being forced to commit suicide in order to find out where her baby was being kept? Not a well thought out plan, but fortunately for Paula, Ellen bought it and decided to kill herself.She then swallowed some pills (presumably that would have killed her) and became unconscious for a period of time. But then miraculously made a full and speedy recovery and was able to not only activate the passenger air bag of the car using a 9 volt battery from a torch, which then smashed the windscreen (handy) but then proceeded to 'hot wire' the car by touching two wires together. What was the writer/director thinking? Whilst I'm sure this is physically possible on a 10+ year old car, it was nothing short of ridiculous and laughable.Towards the end we find out that David's wife 'Kay' thought he was having an affair with Ellen which turned out to be nonsense. In fact Paula did kill Kay 'because she was annoyed Kay kept asking about her daughter' At that point I thought why have i wasted all this time watching this program. What an pathetic, feeble story line.To top it all off the 3rd and final installment ended abruptly with no idea what Ellen was going to do for a job, or whether she reconciled things with her husband Ian. To sum up, this BBC drama should have been great but was let down in the last half an hour of the final episode. There were some good performances in parts, particularly by Vicky Mclure as Paula.On the plus side I enjoyed watching the beautiful Morven Christie. Almost made up for the ill thought out, confusing and ridiculous ending.
sanjin_9632 This is terrible. Just awful. Nothing new here. An architect with some psychological issues in her past has to leave work due to being pregnant and hires a replacement. After a while she notices that her replacement is trying to take over her role at the firm and she can't shake a bad feeling. Then her friend and boss dies in an supposed accident and the more she gets suspicious of 'the replacement' the more she alienates the ones around her. As I said. Nothing new. Very predictable. And at times, very unbelievable plot outline. The only thing that kept me watching was McClure's ability (her crazy eyes) to play a psychotic secretive woman. The female lead (played by Morven Christie) was also good at playing another psychotic hormonal woman. That's about it. Two psychotic women going at each other with all they got. Passive aggressiveness, sarcasm, hurtful insinuations etc. Psycho games and schemes. Nothing anyone hasn't seen before. That's why I give this a 4.0/10. This could've been better. I expect more from the BBC (even if this was filmed and produced in Scotland).
studioAT The great thing about TV in this day and age is that sometimes a show comes from nowhere and grabs peoples attention. In 2017 this show did that.With a good premise and a cast that you've likely seen in lots of other things this show brightened up dreary spring evenings with its quick turns and obsession based plot.We need intelligent TV shows like this, and on free to watch stations, rather than buried away on Netflix. I'm sure in time more people will find this on IPlayer/DVD and see what a good show it was.It's a shame that there won't be a series 2.