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Striking Out [RTÉ1]

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    #572
    political analyst
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    Jordy Mushy Sordidness wrote: »
    I watched the second half of last night's episode and it certainly hasn't improved on the last series. Weak script, sudden solutions, computer handily revealing useful information in the last fifteen minutes - it's all still there.

    I really don't like Amy Huberman in the lead role. She's too saccharine and one dimensional. I thought, last year, that Meg would make a more interesting protagonist and this series I think Maria Doyle Kennedy's character has far more depth. I know Amy is meant to be a lovely person, and she's a good actress in a limited range of roles. But she's not strong or gutsy enough to carry the lead in a legal drama and I think she's dragging this one down - well, along with the crap scripts and postcard images of Dublin.

    But she is being true to her real-life background - she's a Southsider - and she is convincing in this role because you'd almost think she actually was a solicitor.


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    #573
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    This is an Aldi version of Revenge (itself a totally useless show)


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    #574
    political analyst
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    This is an Aldi version of Revenge (itself a totally useless show)

    Do you not think it gives some insight (with artistic licence, of course) into the Irish legal system?


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    #575
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    political analyst wrote: »
    Do you not think it gives some insight (with artistic licence, of course) into the Irish legal system?


    It could be better in my opinion. Its very hammy tbh and full of characters no one can relate to.

    I am all for trying different things but Huberman just smacks of being 'one of the clique'


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    #576
    gmisk
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    political analyst wrote: »
    With regard to a recent drama you didn't mention - Acceptable Risk - I didn't watch it but I could tell from the trailers it wasn't worth watching because Angeline Ball just wasn't convincing in her role as a cop.
    I watched the first two then gave up....it was horribly bad...worse than this show IMO


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    #577
    Shurimgreat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,133 ✭✭✭Shurimgreat


    Having struggled to watch a couple of laughably bad episodes last year, I can safely say this is the worst drama RTE has ever foisted upon the unfortunate public who must subsidise it with licence payers money.

    RTE, if you want a licence fee increase, put on decent television, otherwise you are undermining your argument.

    Whoever commissioned this program and recommissioned a second series would be fired in any other organisation.


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    #578
    MilesMorales1
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    I think despite the awful writing, this could maybe work, if the acting was better, however the acting is so woeful, laughably bad, and the people making it are so keen to make Dublin seem so hip and trendy, that its practically a comedy. Amy Huberman is such a bad actor, that she literally drags the whole thing down, for starters. If they'd got a lead with some talent and not just because she's in the 'RTE clique' or whatever, thats a good start.


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    #579
    Sierra 117
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    To be honest, the show just doesn't have the time for the amount of plot threads it has going, especially with cases of the week getting the main focus each week. This isn't an American 22 episode show where they can have the main plot on a slow burn. They have six episodes, and another year before a potential third season will air. It's just dragging things out.


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    #580
    BuilderPlumber
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    political analyst wrote: »
    With regard to a recent drama you didn't mention - Acceptable Risk - I didn't watch it but I could tell from the trailers it wasn't worth watching because Angeline Ball just wasn't convincing in her role as a cop.

    I didn't watch Acceptable Risk. I've heard mixed reports about it but I felt it could be another waste of time. None of these 2015-2018 dramas has the ability to capture the interest of the nation and while they are watchable, they are not remarkable. Rebellion, Clean Break, Striking Out and probably Acceptable Risk are all wastes and could have been so much better.


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    #581
    BuilderPlumber
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    Sierra 117 wrote: »
    To be honest, the show just doesn't have the time for the amount of plot threads it has going, especially with cases of the week getting the main focus each week. This isn't an American 22 episode show where they can have the main plot on a slow burn. They have six episodes, and another year before a potential third season will air. It's just dragging things out.

    Exactly. It would be better to concentrate on 6 continuous episodes based around one main story. It is not LA Law or Matlock where there were more episodes and standalone stories made sense.


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    #582
    BuilderPlumber
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    Shurimgreat wrote: »
    Having struggled to watch a couple of laughably bad episodes last year, I can safely say this is the worst drama RTE has ever foisted upon the unfortunate public who must subsidise it with licence payers money.

    RTE, if you want a licence fee increase, put on decent television, otherwise you are undermining your argument.

    Whoever commissioned this program and recommissioned a second series would be fired in any other organisation.

    The Big Bow Wow??!!


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    #583
    political analyst
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    It could be better in my opinion. Its very hammy tbh and full of characters no one can relate to.

    I am all for trying different things but Huberman just smacks of being 'one of the clique'

    But many Irish lawyers are Dublin 4-type individuals. As a Southsider, Huberman is convincing in this role.


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    #584
    political analyst
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    BuilderPlumber wrote: »
    I didn't watch Acceptable Risk.
    I thought so.
    BuilderPlumber wrote: »
    I've heard mixed reports about it but I felt it could be another waste of time.
    You are right - I could judge from the trailers that Angeline Ball wasn't convincing in her role in Acceptable Risk (unlike Huberman in Striking Out).


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    #585
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    political analyst wrote: »
    But many Irish lawyers are Dublin 4-type individuals. As a Southsider, Huberman is convincing in this role.

    I agree with you on this point but there is plenty of actresses in South Dublin im sure. Huberman seems to have her pick of roles though. The show seems to have been wrote for her as opposed to have been wrote to tell a story


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    #586
    Hannibal_Smith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,983 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hannibal_Smith


    Are they trying to turn Eric and the Secretary into Harvey and Donna from Suits?


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    #587
    freshpopcorn
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    Is Monica Sandie from Fair CIty?


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    #588
    Sierra 117
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    So is the brother going to do something besides try to ride Tara?


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    #589
    MilesMorales1
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    What is it Ray does? He seems to be drifting a bit. Also why is Tara's mum just in the office hanging around? What is Ray's brother around for?


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    #590
    Muahahaha
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    Biddy from Glenroe there as Mother Superior lol!


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    #591
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    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Biddy from Glenroe there as Mother Superior lol!


    The irony is that she is a practising Buddhist in real life. :pac:


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    #592
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    The show is a complete mess. No redeemable or relatable characters in it whatsoever. All its short is Dr Oakley and his Nintendo gun :mad:

    Terrible. The creative writers have gone on strike it seems or didn't have a whole lot of talent to begin with.


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    #593
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Is Monica Sandie from Fair CIty?

    She is.


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    #594
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    I like how the vaguely maybe potentially interesting legal scenarios in this, like the polyamorous relationship last week, the nun thing this week, are basically the B side plots to the continuing adventures of Tara the emotionless expressionless woman and her rag tag band of equally uncharismatic friends.


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    #595
    denishurley
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    Hannibal_Smith wrote: »
    Are they trying to turn Eric and the Secretary into Harvey and Donna from Suits?

    And they're not even subtle about it.


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    #596
    Sierra 117
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Sierra 117


    The show has a lot of plot threads but spends so little time on them that it's impossible to be engaged by any of them. Instead most of the focus is on the case of the week, and they all suffer from poor writing so there's no engagement there either.

    Tara has no life in her. At all. She tends to just mope about, wandering along from case to case. There's no excitement, fear, anger, etc. She's just started out on her own in a new career path and the only thing that is shown on her face is blankness. Where's the drive to make a go of this new life. The anxiety of it not working out. There's just blankness instead.


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    #597
    madmaggie
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    Neil Morrissey has a huge house, but only one loo.
    Tara's mother can find stuff on the net in seconds, on being given the barest details.
    Tara washes off the face mask, and reappears fully made up again.

    I watch this programme for the laugh, not the plot.


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    #598
    joeysoap
    Registered Users Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭joeysoap


    That hotel in Wicklow was nice and the use of Drones for photography is excellent. Storeylines are rubbish though.


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    #599
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    joeysoap wrote: »
    That hotel in Wicklow was nice and the use of Drones for photography is excellent. Storeylines are rubbish though.


    Its an extended ad for tourism that happens to have an all over the place storyline happening in the same production.

    If the producers were to cut all these random shots of Dublin or wherever then they might be able to fit more dialogue into the show. Even Love/Hate was guilty of this.


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    #600
    Hippo
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    political analyst wrote: »
    Do you not think it gives some insight (with artistic licence, of course) into the Irish legal system?

    No, it absolutely does not! It's really not worth cataloguing the legal inaccuracies and impossible occurrences in the show, there's far too many. It really is dismal, dated stuff.


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    #601
    Radio5
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    Sierra 117 wrote: »
    The show has a lot of plot threads but spends so little time on them that it's impossible to be engaged by any of them. Instead most of the focus is on the case of the week, and they all suffer from poor writing so there's no engagement there either.

    Tara has no life in her. At all. She tends to just mope about, wandering along from case to case. There's no excitement, fear, anger, etc. She's just started out on her own in a new career path and the only thing that is shown on her face is blankness. Where's the drive to make a go of this new life. The anxiety of it not working out. There's just blankness instead.

    Yes to your 2nd paragraph. Blankness, blandness, all the way. We still know nothing about Tara. She is not shown as having any friends, socialising (apart from with people she works with & the ex's brother's birthday party) and the vague hint of romance with the now forgotten about cafe owner hasn't even been mentioned again, even in passing...

    I think we know we know more about her mother who hasn't even been in every episode. She was a legal secretary, married a barrister, had a comfortable existence in a big house, endured his infidelity, is now bored of being at home and doing the 'ladies who lunch' thing. She's gone back to her old job by helping Tara, and I think she now suspects the hubby might be having an affair again.


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