Lisa knows them, and he asks if they’ve caused her any trouble.
Her response is terribly sad: “Everyone causes me trouble.”
The closeup on her face is apt.
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That would just lead to the same predicament, only worse.
Poor Lisa, on the other hand, is a different story.
Though she’s the older sibling, nothing in the other episodes indicates that she did anything wrong.
9"Get the day back."
Mr. Miller repeats what she says more than once, including on the car ride over.
This superbly demonstrates the family’s everyday struggle and helps establishAdolescenceas possiblythe best British show of recent memory.
At their respective desks at the police station, Bascombe asks Frank if she’s worried about the dad.
This quote demonstrates how difficult it is to trust people at this stage in the investigation.
Upon rewatching the series, one knows that the detectives already know that Jaime is guilty of murder.
7"I just thought you needed to know.
It was just embarrassing watching you blunder about."
He claims his father doesn’t know what’s happening, and he’s clearly right.
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The teenager explains the Instagram emojis that went on between Jaime and Katie.
Once his father seems to understand, Adam says “I just thought you needed to know.
It was just embarrassing watching you blunder about.”
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It also shows the awkwardness between these two characters, who seem to have grown apart.
6"Look at me now!"
At this point, the security guard enters and Jaime apologizes for shouting.
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Unfortunately for him, that’s not nearly enough to erase that moment of excessive and seemingly desperate swagger.
Yet he’ll take it, indicative of someone with an extremely incomplete sense of masculinity.
5"Yeah, it’s fine.
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I thought it was just me and Dad here."
The three remaining Millers are driving back home from Wainwrights in awkward silence.
At this point, Jaime calls them.
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The father is the only one who speaks to his son for a while.
When Jaime says he’s going to change his plea, his father doesn’t respond.
Jaime clarifies that he’s going to plead guilty, and his father still says nothing.
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So his mother responds instead, saying she and Jaime’s sister are here, too.
The boy is surprised at this.
She asks her son about the food, and he says “Yeah, it’s fine.
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I thought it was just me and Dad here.”
There is so much to unpack here, showing once again how the showproves a Netflix masterpiecein every way.
4"So if my dad made me, how did I make that?"
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Eddie and his wife Manda are sitting on their bed together, side by side.
The camera shows a close-up of his face, white light bursting through the curtains.
She even says she thinks it would be healthy to accept that they should have done more as parents.
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Summing up his confusion, anger, and regret, this quote helps make the miniseriesan absolute must-watch.
Episode three is filled with so many poignant moments.
He tells Briony that everyone was calling her “slag” or “flat” and other things.
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No sympathy, no empathy.
All the hesitations and stutters leading up to and during this quote reveal a kid with no real confidence.
2"What you think is more important than what’s true."
He looks like a pretty normal kid, so this is an interesting moment.
She asks how that makes him feel, but he wants her to tell him something reassuring instead.
The camera stays on him, as we’re trying to gain insight into his mentality.
However, this statement doesn’t just work for this context.
It works for the entire episode, and actually comes across as a concise justification for the entire miniseries.
1"Do you like me?"
The camera motions toward Briony.
Then we only see the psychologist, and she won’t say if she likes him or not.
He’s then pulled out of the room by the guard without getting an answer.
Jaime has accidentally confessed to murder more than once during this conversation.
He’s been very antagonistic, too.
Yet he still thinks that she might like him, which displays an astounding lack of self-awareness.
He never seems more desperate than here.
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