[Niamh.]

I watched the first 2 last night, it's a 5 part show

About Murder at the Cottage

Two days before Christmas in 1996, Sophie Toscan du Plantier was brutally murdered at her holiday cottage in Schull, West Cork. The murder rocked the quiet Irish town and 24 years later, the case remains a mystery. This series sees six-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Jim Sheridan, piece together original evidence, never-before-seen footage, and interviews with those closest to the case to try to make sense of what really happened.

[Ammi]

…I’ve just checked and I think that I can watch this on NOW TV so I’ll try to start watching later……

[Shaun]

title suggesting Ammi is the culprit? smh

[Ammi]

……Cottage use during COVID restricted times, the resourceful guide…

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…I’ve just checked and I think that I can watch this on NOW TV so I’ll try to start watching later……

let me know what you think, I think there's only 2 episodes out so far (I can only find the 1st 2 anyway)

Originally Posted by Shaun

title suggesting Ammi is the culprit? smh

[Ammi]

…oh it’s showing more episodes for me so I’m not sure if I can access them all, then…I think they’re all showing…I’ve just started to watch and I’m loving Jim Sheridan storytelling……if I didn’t have any familiarity at all, I’d be totally gripped already ….

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…oh it’s showing more episodes for me so I’m not sure if I can access them all, then…I think they’re all showing…I’ve just started to watch and I’m loving Jim Sheridan storytelling……if I didn’t have any familiarity at all, I’d be totally gripped already ….

Enjoy the beautiful West Cork Scenery it's my favourite place in the world. We've been looking for property around there the last few months and I noticed that I'd seen Sophies neighbours house on(the house that the lady who found her body lived in), the house right behind hers. Would be a bit eerie living there though I think

I've had to use play back to watch the episodes and I can only go back a week, so I can only get the first 2 atm, looks like I might get 1 or 2 more on Sunday

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Enjoy the beautiful West Cork Scenery it's my favourite place in the world. We've been looking for property around there the last few months and I noticed that I'd seen Sophies neighbours house on(the house that the lady who found her body lived in), the house right behind hers. Would be a bit eerie living there though I think

I've had to use play back to watch the episodes and I can only go back a week, so I can only get the first 2 atm, looks like I might get 1 or 2 more on Sunday

OMG we have been on daft.ie looking at properties in West Cork, we might be neighbours

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Enjoy the beautiful West Cork Scenery it's my favourite place in the world. We've been looking for property around there the last few months and I noticed that I'd seen Sophies neighbours house on(the house that the lady who found her body lived in), the house right behind hers. Would be a bit eerie living there though I think

I've had to use play back to watch the episodes and I can only go back a week, so I can only get the first 2 atm, looks like I might get 1 or 2 more on Sunday

…it’s incredible…..I can see why it was a place where Sophie felt such an affinity with and spent her time there…(…sitting in the same chair, ordering the same scone and tea etc….)….and all of the ‘blow ins’ who also seemed to spend their time there as well…and the people…?…how much they also ‘adopted’ those blow ins as their own as well…

[Niamh.]

I won't read the spoilers until I finish the series, I'll be waiting a while though because I'll have to wait till Sunday again

[Ammi]

…there is another 3 part series on Netflix airing 30th June, I think…A Murder in West Cork…I sadly don’t think it’s ever going to be anything other than unsolved and it’s so emotionally harrowing and saddening to see her family’s life and what Sophie went through as well and to know that there will probably never be justice…it really is incredibly upsetting, I’m not sure that I’ll be able to watch the other one…so soon anyway, how it wasn’t just one life that was taken…

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…there is another 3 part series on Netflix airing 30th June, I think…A Murder in West Cork…I sadly don’t think it’s ever going to be anything other than unsolved and it’s so emotionally harrowing and saddening to see her family’s life and what Sophie went through as well and to know that there will probably never be justice…it really is incredibly upsetting, I’m not sure that I’ll be able to watch the other one…so soon anyway, how it wasn’t just one life that was taken…

Yeah that's the one I was talking about before. I'll probably watch that too.

[Ammi]

…and for those who actually knew her in Schull…some can still barely speak about it, their voices breaking with the emotion…the impact of the violence of her death and ‘a monster living among them’ is just a darkness on their lives…

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…and for those who actually knew her in Schull…some can still barely speak about it, their voices breaking with the emotion…the impact of the violence of her death and ‘a monster living among them’ is just a darkness on their lives…

Yeah definitely, it's such a peaceful, friendly place too, always so safe

[Cherie]

Finished this now.

Spoiler:

it left me feeling a little empty and sad, I changed my mind multiple times about whether he is the killer, if he is, he will never do time for it, I feel the family were let down badly by the Guards very early on, they put all their eggs in one basket and it appears interfered with witnesses to get a conviction, Marie Farrell retracting her statement, and the guy they paid off to befriend him all helps Baileys case, I am not sure he or Jules Thomas are stable enough to have kept the murder to themselves all this time, also there didn't seem to be a motive other than that it gave him work, then the French accepting Marie Farrells first statement and not accepting her offer to go to France to attend the trial, it felt again like they were doing anything they could to be a guilty verdict, her poor parents and her son, it's all very sad and will we ever know the truth, Jules leaving Bailey finally was the only high point for me

[Niamh.]

Finished Ep 4 last night, have to wait till Sunday now for the last episode ggrrr The Police made a right balls of the investigation though

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Finished Ep 4 last night, have to wait till Sunday now for the last episode ggrrr The Police made a right balls of the investigation though

They really did, but then it's hard to blame them, its not exactly standard work they were asked to do, they should have sent a team from the Smoke to handle if from the off

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

They really did, but then it's hard to blame them, its not exactly standard work they were asked to do, they should have sent a team from the Smoke to handle if from the off

Yeah probably never came across anything that big ever down that direction and probably never did again i would imagine

[hijaxers]

Just been reading Ian Bailey is threatening to sue Netflix re another documentary thats also been released.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by hijaxers

Just been reading Ian Bailey is threatening to sue Netflix re another documentary thats also been released.

The crews of the Sky and Netflix documentaries were in West Cork at the same time. Pierre-Louis claims Sheridan told locals not to speak to the Netflix crew. “That was so wrong,” he says. “It is a public affair and nobody has the right to block witnesses. This is not Jim Sheridan’s project, it’s not Jim Sheridan’s life, it’s not Jim Sheridan’s affair. I really was furious. I told him, ‘Stop, I’m not happy with that.’”

Bailey signed an exclusivity deal with Sheridan, meaning Netflix only had interviews with him from 2018. Bailey is now threatening to sue Netflix for airing them. “Exclusive contracts are rare in documentaries but for a prime suspect to sign one when he claims he wants his story out there is odd,” says Dower. “Sheridan’s film takes the stance that Ian Bailey is a victim of police corruption and they’re entitled to do that; we took the view of the family [that Bailey is guilty]. The idea that documentaries are objective is bollocks. Now Bailey’s saying our film is poisonous propaganda. I don’t want to make this about the battle of the two films, because ours is about Sophie and this story, but it’s unavoidable.”


https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-b1874170.html

[Niamh.]

Will be interesting to see the netflix take on it but there was undoubtedly Police corruption going on

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Will be interesting to see the netflix take on it but there was undoubtedly Police corruption going on

…it says in the article that Sophie’s family would only agree to take part if it was more a tribute to her life…so that’s the perspective it’ll take I would think….it just all leaves such sadness because I doubt there will ever be justice, poor Sophie and her family …and poor Schull because this is something that scarred their lives so much as well when they speak of it…