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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Prosser is horrified when Owen confesses he was the abuser at the children's home, not Vaughan, and that he helped cover up for him all these years since.]]
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** [[spoiler: Also, Police Coroner Blake and retired Superintendent Robert Owen.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Superintendent Robert Owen]].
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** [[spoiler: In fact, because Dr. Blake is the coroner, turns out Prosser, Owen and Blake also did this to Kieron Jones, one of the child abuse victims at the Pontarfynach Children's Home and Dr. Hugh Vaughan, who was a physician at said children's home and wanted to speak about the abuse.]]
** [[spoiler: Both Prosser and Dr. Blake wish the murder of Iwan Thomas could be ruled as a suicide.]]
** [[spoiler: In fact, because Dr. Blake is the coroner, turns out Prosser, Owen and Blake also did this to Kieron Jones, one of the child abuse victims at the Pontarfynach Children's Home and Dr. Hugh Vaughan, who was a physician at said children's home and wanted to speak about the abuse.]]
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* PunchClockVillain: [[spoiler: CS Prosser. His blind trust on his predecessor, Robert Owen, drags him into the child abuse cover-up at the Pontarfynach children's home, including helping him bury bodies and actively trying to stall any investigation into it.]]
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* JerkassWoobie: Wyn Bratton. Prosser has a hard-on for sending Bratton up for the murders, and seemingly no one in town besides perhaps Lowri even gives him the time of day.
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** [[spoiler:Retired CS Robert Owen threatens Powell, who was sent in to investigate Thomas' death, with divulging his past relationship with Mared if he keeps digging too much about Iwan Thomas's investigation into Kieron Jones's death.]]
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** [[spoiler:Retired CS Robert Owen threatens Powell, who was sent in to investigate Thomas' death, with divulging his past relationship with Mared if he keeps digging too much about Iwan Thomas's investigation into Kieron Jones's death.death and Pontarfynach's children home. Powell capitulates and with the help of Dr. Blake, closes the Iwan Thomas case with a ruling of suicide.]]
** [[sppoiler: Owen later tries this on Matthias when he comes asking about Pontarfynach's children home, and tells him to stop or he'll ruin his reputation because he had a relationship with Iwan Thomas' ex-wife. [[NoSell Matthias doesn't care]].]]
** [[sppoiler: Owen later tries this on Matthias when he comes asking about Pontarfynach's children home, and tells him to stop or he'll ruin his reputation because he had a relationship with Iwan Thomas' ex-wife. [[NoSell Matthias doesn't care]].]]
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* TownWithADarkSecret: Quite a bit. Penwyllt, Borst, Pontarfynach all count.
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* DarkSecret: As seen on "Devil's Bridge", something really bad happened at the children's home by the titular Devil's Bridge. [[spoiler:Iwan Thomas suspects there was more than what was uncovered in that episode, involving an old case labeled as a suicide, and that CS Prosser, Retired Robert Owen and the Coroner Dr. Blake were all involved. Superintended John Powell is trying to follow Iwan's footsteps and to see whether it's related to his death, which it is.]]
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Notably averted. Filming takes place completely in Wales and more often than not uses real life locations like the actual Devil's Bridge and Borth train station with its small rail museum. The rest of the time, real places are used as stand-ins for fictional locations, like the Hafod Arms Hotel in Devil's Bridge (Pontarfynach) as the former Pontarfynach Children's Home.
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** In Episode 1 of Season 3: [[spoiler: Prosser kills Iwan Thomas by throwing him off Devil's Bridge. Prosser obviously did not want to kill Thomas as it would attract attention to Thomas' life and his obsession with an old case Prosser was involved in, but also wanted Thomas to mind his own business.]]
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* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord:
** Iwan Thomas [[spoiler:keeps prodding Prosser about Kieron Jones' "suicide" and its relationship with Devil's Bridge. Prosser, Dr. Blake and Owen do not take it well. Eventually Prosser snaps at Thomas' prodding and kills him.]]
** [[Retired CS Robert Owen threatens Powell, who was sent in to investigate Thomas' death, with divulging his past relationship with Mared if he keeps digging too much about Iwan Thomas's investigation into Kieron Jones's death.]]
** Iwan Thomas [[spoiler:keeps prodding Prosser about Kieron Jones' "suicide" and its relationship with Devil's Bridge. Prosser, Dr. Blake and Owen do not take it well. Eventually Prosser snaps at Thomas' prodding and kills him.]]
** [[Retired CS Robert Owen threatens Powell, who was sent in to investigate Thomas' death, with divulging his past relationship with Mared if he keeps digging too much about Iwan Thomas's investigation into Kieron Jones's death.]]
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* TakingTheHead: [[spoiler:Matthias is the main suspect in the investigation of the death of Iwain Thomas and for a good reason. The fact that he's being shifty on the subject of Thomas and was looking for him and had no alibi didn't help.]]
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* TakingTheHead: TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:Matthias is the main suspect in the investigation of the death of Iwain Thomas and for a good reason. The fact that he's being shifty on the subject of Thomas and was looking for him and had no alibi didn't help.]]
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* MisBlamed: [[spoiler:Matthias is the main suspect in the investigation of the death of Iwain Thomas and for a good reason. The fact that he's being shifty on the subject of Thomas and was looking for him and had no alibi didn't help.]]
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** Season 3 makes this clearer, [[spoiler: specially after Prosser kills Iwan Thomas to shut him up.]]
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** A few early scenes involving [[spoiler: Prosser]] have music that seems inexplicably creepy, making later reveals about the character less of a shock than they might have been.
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* JiggleShow: While it's certainly a case of TruthInTelevision for a woman of her figure, it's notable, especially in season one. Given almost any chance to show her determined walk, [[MaleGaze the camera will almost always do so from the front]].
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* JiggleShow: While it's certainly a case of TruthInTelevision for a woman of her Mared's figure, it's notable, especially in season one. Given one: given almost any chance to show her determined walk, [[MaleGaze the camera will almost always do so from the front]].
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* LetsGetDangerous: A non-violent version, which may simply be an inversion of InformedAbility: after several early episodes establishing that Mathias runs for exercise, the few times in the series he has to chase someone down on foot, he does so handily and with almost no apparent exertion on his part.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: By this show's standards, both DC Ellis and DS Owens each get featured heavily in season 2 episodes.
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The focus of ''Y Gwyll'' is on our protagonist DCI Tom Mathias (Richard Harrington), who has relocated from London to the coastal town of Aberystwyth in the west of Wales. He is joined by DI Mared Rhys (Mali Harries), DC Lloyd Elis (Alex Harries), DS Siân Owens (Hannah Daniel), and CS Brian Prosser (Aneirin Hughes). The series has been described as [[RecycledInSpace Scandi-noir in Wales (or alternatively a Celtic-noir)]], in the same vein as ''Series/{{Forbrydelsen}}'', ''Series/BronBroen'', or ''Series/{{Wallander}}'', sharing similarly bleak settings and the same moody tone.
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The focus of ''Y Gwyll'' is on our protagonist DCI Tom Mathias (Richard Harrington), who has relocated from London to the coastal town of Aberystwyth in the west of Wales. He is joined by DI Mared Rhys (Mali Harries), DC Lloyd Elis (Alex Harries), DS Siân Owens (Hannah Daniel), and CS Brian Prosser (Aneirin Hughes). The series has been described as [[RecycledInSpace Scandi-noir in Wales (or alternatively a Celtic-noir)]], in the same vein as ''Series/{{Forbrydelsen}}'', ''Series/BronBroen'', or ''Series/{{Wallander}}'', sharing similarly bleak settings and the same moody tone.
tone. Some might also describe it as "''Series/{{Luther}}'' Goes to ''Series/{{Broadchurch}}''."
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* JiggleShow: While it's certainly a case of TruthInTelevision for a woman of her figure, it's notable, especially in season one. Given almost any chance to show her determined walk, [[MaleGaze the camera will almost always do so from the front]].
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* MusicalSpoiler: In the episode [[spoiler:"Ceredigion"]], the music takes a notably dark turn the first time the actual killer appears on screen. It's jarringly obvious on [[RewatchBonus re-watch]].
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* FairCop: DS Siân Owens. DI Mared Rhys counts too, [[LikesOlderWomen for some]].
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* ChekhovsGun: In the 2015 special, Rhys and Mathias are stopped at a red light outside a nameless service station; the station would prove critical later.
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* JerkassWoobie: Wyn Bratton. Prosser has a hard-on for sending Bratton up for the murders, and seemingly no one in town besides perhaps Lowri even gives him the time of day.
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* AfterActionPatchUp: [[spoiler:Gwen Thomas]] tends to Mathias' bandaged hand. Things go [[FlorenceNightingaleEffect better than expected]]. At least for a while.
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* IconicOutfit: Mared's parkas. Also Mathias' wool tie. And Prosser's ubiquitous police blazer in season 1; he looks like he could break into a jog at any second.
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* CloseKnitCommunity: Aside from isolated places like Penwyllt, all of Ceredigion seems to qualify.
** DI Mared Rhys's father knew Coradog Williams. ("Night Music")
** A big circle: Iwan Thomas was the police officer who investigated child abuse claims at Devil's Bridge Children's Home ("Girl In The Water"). Alys Thomas was his daughter. Dean, the arcade night manager, dated Alys, and hired Hywel Maybury, who was abused at Devil's Bridge as a child ("Devil's Bridge"). Never mind that Mathias' first case in Aber was the murder of the former headmistress of Devil's Bridge, then later [[spoiler: sleeps with Iwan Thomas' wife Gwen]].
** DI Mared Rhys's father knew Coradog Williams. ("Night Music")
** A big circle: Iwan Thomas was the police officer who investigated child abuse claims at Devil's Bridge Children's Home ("Girl In The Water"). Alys Thomas was his daughter. Dean, the arcade night manager, dated Alys, and hired Hywel Maybury, who was abused at Devil's Bridge as a child ("Devil's Bridge"). Never mind that Mathias' first case in Aber was the murder of the former headmistress of Devil's Bridge, then later [[spoiler: sleeps with Iwan Thomas' wife Gwen]].
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* GuiltComplex: Plenty to go around; particularly Mathias, in spades. AndThen. But also Jenny James, Hywel Maybury, Byron Rodgers, even Catrin John's husband.Dyfed Williams, just in the first episode alone. This show makes guilt look like the Welsh state religion.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Prosser manages one on Mathias with three words: "IN A CARAVAN!" - comparing Mathias to loner (and easy pariah) Wyn Bratton. Mathias stomps out and has to recompose himself in a bathroom stall. ("Penwyllt")
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* LoveWillMakeYouEvil: LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Jenny James.]]
