I Didn’t Think It Would Be Possible To Find Any Similarities Between Two Of My Favorite Shows, Broadchurch

I didn’t think it would be possible to find any similarities between two of my favorite shows, Broadchurch and MASH. I was wrong.

Spoilers after the cut (for both shows)

Specifically, the similarity lies between Alec Hardy and Hawkeye Pierce in terms of trauma. Both suffer from varying degrees of PTSD, but their individual experiences are opposite from the other’s. 

Hardy in BC is already deeply traumatized by something in the first series, but we don’t see its cause until S2, when he reveals he was the one who discovered and carried out a murdered girl’s body out of a river. Ever since then, he suffers from nightmares and by his own admission rarely sleeps soundly anymore. It’s honesty one of the saddest scenes of the series and it adds a lot more weight to Hardy’s character seeing that moment as he’s carrying Pippa Gillespie out of the river:

I Didn’t Think It Would Be Possible To Find Any Similarities Between Two Of My Favorite Shows, Broadchurch

Unlike Hardy, whose experience happens well before we actually meet him as a character, Hawkeye’s in MASH happens right at the end of his story arch. We’ve watched him become more and more unstable and exhausted as the series continues; his nightmares and bouts of insomnia have already been going on for quite some time, and he’s shown having the tendency of rewriting traumatic memories. Which is why we find him in a mental hospital in the beginning of the final episode, being treated for for what he thinks is absolutely nothing. Then we hear about an incident on a bus when he and the rest of the MASH unit are hiding from Chinese and North Korean soldiers. He’s adamant about the fact that a South Korean woman hiding with them killed her chicken when he ordered her to keep it quiet, until finally the truth comes out:

I Didn’t Think It Would Be Possible To Find Any Similarities Between Two Of My Favorite Shows, Broadchurch

(Sorry for the crappy quality- I can’t screencap from itunes, so a video on youtube was the best I could do.)

Now, I’m all for stopping the usual fridged-wife causing manly pain backstory, but damn it this isn’t much better! 

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