Eden

Grissy

Eden will be shown on RTE One on St. Patrick's Day at 9.40 p.m.

I live in Austria and unfortunately I'm therefore not able to watch it.
I'm a big fan of Pádraic Delaney's work and would love to see this film.

Would someone be so kind and tape it for me? I'd really appreciate it. Just PM me.

Thanks.

holly1

Hello Grissy, I will be recording it for my son,if you come back to me I will try to get it to you.My nephew wrote EDEN and also PURE MULE,so have a big intrest in it.
If anyone watches it I would love to hear what you think of it, good or bad.Be a critic !!!.

Grissy

Thank you Holly, I sent you a PM.

gordon_gekko

its amasing all the shows on tv about BIFFO,s

pure mule was very good

subfreq

So far it's been awful IMHO but shot beautifully.

Really. How many times can you make depressing middle Ireland stories. We must surely be running out of them at this stage.....

Firetrap

Well, that was a whole lot of something about nothing. It was like driving a Lada - depressing, slow and going nowhere.

is_that_so

I believe the play was superb but what works on stage may not always work on screen. Like some of the other posters here I found it just a little too slow, especially for a fairly downbeat theme. The cast was good, and in general the script seemed good but the lingering camera work also made it feel a lot longer.

mickd

Goes to show how ugly Irish people are, Chirst having to look at her knashers for 10 yrs would give anyone brewers droop. Not to mention the slapper with the mini. Thankfully us lads were redeemed by Mr Delaney. Moral ugly birds+ugly blokes= Misery

Firetrap

I don't know why they keep casting that woman with the big teeth in midlands based things. Her accent is appalling.

ianrush

RTE drama is either "f**k me this is relentlessly depressing" or "f**k me its another sunny maeve binchy adaptation". There seems to be no middle ground, no room for any subtlety. Eden was well shot, and the actors did their best, but the two dimensional characters that littered the story (including the two main characters) just killed it for me.

Saint_Mel

Worst ... Show ... Ever.

Good old RTE making sure in case everyone didnt already think Tullamore was full of ugly women with rough knack accents ... they do now!

moe_sizlak

offaly is the biggest hole of a spot in ireland , its no wonder they are potrayed as so miserable

as for the accents , its common knowledge that a midlands accent is identical to a traveller accent

moe_sizlak

offaly is the biggest red neck hole of a spot in ireland , its no wonder they are potrayed as so miserable

as for the accents , its common knowledge that a midlands accent is identical to a traveller accent

holly1

I agree with you Is That So,the play worked much better,though I thought the acting was great.

Davedubh

Why is there so much snobbery about accents in this country?Will ye not be happy till were all talking like yanks.

brendor

I thought it was ok - the actors who played the husband and wife were pretty good but you would know it was adapted from a play.

The accents didnt bother me at least no one from Fair City was in it.

Angel Face

Dunno why everyone is going so hard on the actors being ugly! Quite harsh in my opinion! I thought the main guy was nice, and a fantastic actor. The young girl in the mini was beautiful!

50hertz

The book was great, the play was great, the tv show was crap of the highest degree. I'm from Offaly and I got shivers down my spine when I hear the first words uttered in the show, the accents were appaling and not authentic. Are there no actors from the midlands that could have been used instead?. The show seemed to just drag on and on. It was painful to watch, so I did'nt watch it all. Read the book or watch the play instead IMO.

Rourke

I was really looking forward to this show, I love Eileen Walsh as an actress. However, I was so disappointed. It was awful. Nothing really seemed believable, they looked like they were acting, much of the plot was beyond belief. It was far too slow moving. There was virtually no character development, no complexity in the characters. And then there were the cliches - not being able to talk unless they were drinking, wife pretending to be asleep.... Oh God, I can't go on, it's depressing me all over again...

Sandwich

Felt like an episode of Pure Mule that was discarded to me.

Cork

It was a dull, boring & humourless drama.

Why do RTE make and screen this type of stuff at prime time?

RTE is in existance for decades - why is this type of programme acceptable?

This was their prime time programme for our National Holiday.

ianrush

Cork wrote: »

It was a dull, boring & humourless drama.

Why do RTE make and screen this type of stuff at prime time?

RTE is in existance for decades - why is this type of programme acceptable?

This was their prime time programme for our National Holiday.

When you are a monopoly, as RTE are since TV3 have no money/intention to make programmes, they can just get away with doing pretty much anything they want.

Elmo

When you are a monopoly, as RTE are since TV3 have no money/intention to make programmes, they can just get away with doing pretty much anything they want.

TV3 have plenty of money they just don't want to spend it. 60MILLION EACH YEAR IN ADVERTISING REVENUE. trust me if TV3 pay any more then 20million for the shows they show their management need to be replaced.

I would assume RTE thought that this would be a success due to the phenomena that was Pure Mule. I didn't get to see the Film, but with the awards that the play has received I would assume that RTE will do very well out of this production.

holly1

50herts,I wasent aware of a book on EDEN!!!!!!!!

europerson

holly1 wrote: »

50herts,I wasent aware of a book on EDEN!!!!!!!!

The TV show was based on a play by Eugene O'Brien. The Abbey Theatre published a copy of its text.

holly1

Eileen Walsh won an award in America.Thats brilliant,well done Eileen!!!!!!!!