‘Broadchurch’ Creator Accepts Best Mystery for Season 2 (While Writing Season 3)
There’s no hiding that Yahoo TV editors remain hooked on BBC America’s Broadchurch — we did weekly postmortems for its second season. But it’s nice to know our readers agree. The show was crowned Best Mystery in our inaugural fan-voted awards for its second season, which actually posed two: Could someone we all saw confess to killing 11-year-old Danny Latimer at the end of Season 1 actually get off? And who killed Pippa and Lisa, the cousins at the center of the Sandbrook case, which had originally given DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant) his heart condition?
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Over the course of eight skillfully-scripted, beautifully-edited episodes, choices Hardy and DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) had made in Season 1 — the consequences of which viewers had never even thought to consider — came back to bite them. Meanwhile, the Sandbrook investigation proved that you don’t need a town of suspects to keep viewers guessing, just three (an estranged husband and wife and their neighbor, who’d lost his daughter and niece).
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Reached via email, Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall accepted the award with the following statement:
Wow. On behalf of the whole Broadchurch team, thank you so much Yahoo readers. It’s always an extra special honour to get an accolade voted for by the public, and to do so against such high-class competition (The Jinx! I’m in the middle of watching it! No spoilers!) we’re even more honoured. We took plenty of risks in our second season, so it’s a thrill to hear that people enjoyed it.
I could gush a lot more, but I have a script for series 3 open on my computer and I have to get back to it. Thank you once again for brightening a grey, rainy day in beautiful Dorset.
