Striking Out [RTÉ1]

Sierra 117

The first season is up on RTE Player for anyone who wants to catch up before the new season.

brian_t

New season seems to be starting on Sunday 7th January.

JP Liz V1

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

They showed a brief trailer for the next series of this during the toy show and says coming soon.

Series 2 starts Sunday 7th of January at 9.35pm

Ralf and Florian

Heraldoffreeent wrote: »

This is only the best news of the summer ..............any summer...........ever..........

Beyond comprehension how this shít got a second season and the likes of Rebellion didnt. Its appalling.

Creating alot of dramas and comedies that are aimed at a predominately female audience at the moment but not succeeding with any. Hopefully Stuart Carolan can come back with a love/hate spin off soon.

BuilderPlumber

Deleted User wrote: »

Beyond comprehension how this shít got a second season and the likes of Rebellion didnt. Its appalling.

Creating alot of dramas and comedies that are aimed at a predominately female audience at the moment but not succeeding with any. Hopefully Stuart Carolan can come back with a love/hate spin off soon.

RTE's dramas have become restrained, tame affairs. If Striking Out was made in 2012 or 2013, it would be a gritty violent legal drama focused on defending a Nidge or Fran type.

Not one of RTE's post-Love/Hate dramas achieved anything like Love/Hate did. Clean Break was Love/Hate-lite, restrained and tame. Rebellion could have been so much better than what we got. Striking Out is decidedly tame and harmless. A new series of Love/Hate or a spinoff written by Stuart Carolan is much needed. The ideas (alive Nidge, dead Nidge, Fran out of prison wanting revenge, Patrick and a traveller feud, a prison drama, exploring Garda corruption) are endless.

political analyst

Amy Huberman is quite convincing in her role as "Tara Rafferty" - given her south Dublin accent, stature and appearance, you'd almost think she actually was a solicitor!

BuilderPlumber

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

RTE's dramas have become restrained, tame affairs. If Striking Out was made in 2012 or 2013, it would be a gritty violent legal drama focused on defending a Nidge or Fran type.

Not one of RTE's post-Love/Hate dramas achieved anything like Love/Hate did. Clean Break was Love/Hate-lite, restrained and tame. Rebellion could have been so much better than what we got. Striking Out is decidedly tame and harmless. A new series of Love/Hate or a spinoff written by Stuart Carolan is much needed. The ideas (alive Nidge, dead Nidge, Fran out of prison wanting revenge, Patrick and a traveller feud, a prison drama, exploring Garda corruption) are endless.

We have too many snowflakes that are upset about everything. You seen the bullsh*t with Siobhans rape and the cat being shot. There is a consensus that if its not on TV then our minds cant be corrupted.

Its puke inducing how many cronies line up to praise the muck that RTE are churning out. That 'comedy' with Alison Spittle for example and that other appalling pile of shíte Stephanie Preissner wrote Cant Cope/Wont Cope. All tokenism.

We are still in many ways a play it safe and stick to what you know society.

MilesMorales1

God the acting is as woeful as ever.

PieOhMy

We're backing bwave

Icsics

What's with all the smoking....?!

tototoe

Dancing with the staff, fair city and striking out

Jesus rte, this is woeful

Icsics

Moral of the story...get married to avoid deportation & then get ur solicitor to use their connections

MilesMorales1

Woman says something to county register about getting married for love or being a couple whatever it was

County register - 'have you thought a career in law?'

... what?

walshb

As acting goes Amy is at best a D-

Usedname

Why is anyone who is at the top of the legal career ladder, i.e. judge or barrister, have a british accent, in a programme set in the Republic of Ireland?

That is so annoying and nonsensical

MilesMorales1

Usedname wrote: »

Why is anyone who is at the top of the legal career ladder, i.e. judge or barrister, have a british accent, in a programme set in the Republic of Ireland?

That is so annoying and nonsensical

Why not?

Heraldoffreeent

ONLY The Hube could stop a deportation like that.

Why MOPS or Arthur Cox aren't snapping her up I'll never know..........

MilesMorales1

Who the **** would go up to a minister at a book launch (I've never heard of a book launch in temple bar either) and start saying stuff like that?

Usedname

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Why not?

Why would they have British accents? Why wouldn't they have Irish accents (most likely south Dublin but Irish)

political analyst

Eric stopped to ask a colleague at his father's practice, Gillian (half-way through tonight's episode), whether she was setting up a family law practice? The actress who plays Gillian is the spitting image of Angelina Jolie.

squarecircles

Usedname wrote: »

Why is anyone who is at the top of the legal career ladder, i.e. judge or barrister, have a british accent, in a programme set in the Republic of Ireland?

That is so annoying and nonsensical

This profession is associated with educated, privileged people of fine anglo Irish stock with double necks and lamb fat dripping down on their tweed,sitting on their fat arses while toying with the affairs of low life reprobates.They want to emphasise that and it wouldn't work with a potatoe head with a thick Mick regional accent.


They are trying to protray uber cool Dublin,professional,elite,stylish,sophisticated by getting a Scandinavian production team to shoot trendy shots of a glorified sewer.

Unfortunately in reality it's a kip and will never authenticly be an uber cool Scandinavian city,just supermacs,dirty streets,chip fat,a shower of Mick's up from the country,and deluded Dubliners.

Oi'm backing bwrave.
(Untill there's a financial crash,then I'll pin ya to the wall,fleece ya,put your kids out on the side of the street,dis-inbowel your body,and sell your organs untill I get every last sent back.)

squarecircles

squarecircles wrote: »

This profession is associated with educated, privileged people of fine anglo Irish stock with double necks and lamb fat dripping down on their tweed,sitting on their fat arses while toying with the affairs of low life reprobates.They want to emphasise that and it wouldn't work with a potatoe head with a thick Mick regional accent.


They are trying to protray uber cool Dublin,professional,elite,stylish,sophisticated by getting a Scandinavian production team to shoot trendy shots of a glorified sewer.

Unfortunately in reality it's a kip and will never authenticly be an uber cool Scandinavian city,just supermacs,dirty streets,chip fat,a shower of Mick's up from the country,and deluded Dubliners.

Oi'm backing bwrave.
(Untill there's a financial crash,then I'll pin ya to the wall,and fleece ya.)

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Some truth, some self deprecation.....but loads of laughs...:D Kudos to you

BuilderPlumber

Deleted User wrote: »

We have too many snowflakes that are upset about everything. You seen the bullsh*t with Siobhans rape and the cat being shot. There is a consensus that if its not on TV then our minds cant be corrupted.

Its puke inducing how many cronies line up to praise the muck that RTE are churning out. That 'comedy' with Alison Spittle for example and that other appalling pile of shíte Stephanie Preissner wrote Cant Cope/Wont Cope. All tokenism.

We are still in many ways a play it safe and stick to what you know society.

RTE must have listened to these complaints as since 2015, there is a complete shift towards tame fare no one wants. Instead of a sixth series of Love/Hate, RTE have become focused on things like Striking Out and Can't Cope/Won't Cope. Clean Break and Rebellion would have both been excellent if made around 2011, 2012 or 2013. But instead both series were marred by a deliberate restraint. If RTE did both these series in the spirit of Love/Hate, I'd have bought the DVDs. Once was enough to watch Clean Break and Rebellion and it is a shame both were wasted opportunities.

Striking Out could also be so much better if done right. There is room for a serious violent proper legal drama focused on real criminals but RTE insist on this tame fare. RTE drama has reverted back to the Trouble In Paradise era: the method is to get people sort of interested and they watch it and they say it may pick up as the episodes go along. Another method of getting people interested is the use of a silly name. RTE's worst drama ever was The Big Bow Wow and a lot of people watched it out of curiosity because of the name. RTE's dramas are quickly sinking down to that level again sadly.

I feel too the focus in RTE is not on drama so they will fire any old thing at one. The focus is on all this awful reality drivel especially this dancing thing at the moment. All designed to push the usual people at us once again.

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In fairness, a drama doesn't have to be grim and violent to be good. RTE doesn't have to choose one or the other. They should be capable of producing a drama that doesn't drag the viewer into the underworld of the Dublin criminal class but still manages to be interesting, relevant and reasonably realistic.

I agree that it's depressing to see RTE going down the reality route, instead of putting money and effort into something worthwhile. Dancing with the Stars is a tired old format that has been doing the rounds for years. Surely they could think of something better for Wintry Sunday nights.

squarecircles

Pure Mule was good but it was of its era I guess.
Left behind regional Ireland on the cusp and slightly lost in the wilderness of Celtic tiger ireland as it was just about to die.

Sierra 117

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

Striking Out could also be so much better if done right. There is room for a serious violent proper legal drama focused on real criminals but RTE insist on this tame fare.

Sure, but there is also plenty of room for the kind of show Striking Out is striving to be. It doesn't need to be brutal, gritty, or violent. It's fine for it to just be a drama about a woman trying to forge a new life and a new career for herself.

Striking Out's faults lies in the execution, not with it's initial premise.

BuilderPlumber

Sierra 117 wrote: »

Sure, but there is also plenty of room for the kind of show Striking Out is striving to be. It doesn't need to be brutal, gritty, or violent. It's fine for it to just be a drama about a woman trying to forge a new life and a new career for herself.

Striking Out's faults lies in the execution, not with it's initial premise.

A good drama does not have to be violent or brutal but does need an interesting topic presented in a manner than engages the audience. Love/Hate realistically depicted gangland and was not afraid to show it.

Striking Out is watchable but not something one would look forward to. A more interesting presentation and topic is badly needed. Still it is preferable to all that reality junk. Expect Room To Improve and Dragon's Den back to replace it.

Radio5

Who was the guy arriving at the airport towards the end?

Agree BuilderPlumber. They could have Tara's dealing with, for example, home repossessions and medical negligence cases which are realistic in contemporary Dublin. Instead of all the 'dark forces are against me' stuff which we're supposed to believe is being orchestrated by her prospective father-in-law because wants her back in the firm............Why? Is he afraid that poor old Eric won't find another wife or they'll miss out on Tara's money down the line?

MilesMorales1

Radio5 wrote: »

Who was the guy arriving at the airport towards the end?

Agree BuilderPlumber. They could have Tara's dealing with, for example, home repossessions and medical negligence cases which are realistic in contemporary Dublin. Instead of all the 'dark forces are against me' stuff which we're supposed to believe is being orchestrated by her prospective father-in-law because wants her back in the firm............Why? Is he afraid that poor old Eric won't find another wife or they'll miss out on Tara's money down the line?

The courier bringing Tara's magic stay of execution papers for the overstayer. Or the chap who claimed to love her so much the county register decided to waive the waiting period for marriage?