Bachelors Walk reruns on RTE

Cutie 3.14

Why does yer one never wear a bra, were they not invented until 2003?

Risingshadoo

Maybe some women don't like it. Idk. I'm not an expert on women.

BPKS

Whatever about the non wearing of bras, I very much doubt that the story of a man in his 20s hanging around outside a secondary school to ask a girl out would be allowed today!

I thought the girl was always wearing very little clothing for Dublin, especially in an old house like that. Even in summer.

I had forgotten how brilliant it was too. Back in the days when we expected greater things of RTE and they delivered.

petes

Have watched a couple of the repeats, was a great show.

Lillyfae

Cutie 3.14 wrote: »

Why does yer one never wear a bra, were they not invented until 2003?

Simon Delaney, is it?

All joking aside, was a great show with a great soundtrack. A bit like the Dublin, Male version of Sex in the City

Meeoow

I watched the 3 series on the player. Was there a Christmas special as well?
I couldn't find it.

Bullocks

Brilliant show. It doesn't feel like it's that long since it was on but Ireland surely has changed since then.

druss

BPKS wrote: »

Whatever about the non wearing of bras, I very much doubt that the story of a man in his 20s hanging around outside a secondary school to ask a girl out would be allowed today!

I don't see that it couldn't be a story-line, but it is rather jarring that none of the other characters really says anything to him about it. Not in the episodes I've re-watched this far anyway.

Great show though.

Meeoow

Bullocks wrote: »

Brilliant show. It doesn't feel like it's that long since it was on but Ireland surely has changed since then.

No traffic jams.

It's 2001, it has aged reasonably well which is always a sign of a good series.

BrianD3

It is great and still looks and feel fresh. I don't know anything about filmography but I know that I like what I see in this show.

Broadcast late 2001 but filmed summer 2000. Simon Delaney was still in his twenties then!

This may have been something of a golden era for Dublin city - it was modern but technology wasn't as ubiquitous as today. No smartphone zombies. Rents and student fees were a lot cheaper. The property bubble hadn't gone completely mad yet. There were junkies in the city centre but probably not as many as today. The London Plane trees on O'Connell Street hadn't been cut down yet.

smelly sock

Watched an episode last night for the first ever time. Depressing as hell. Anyone who could relate to that at the time must have had counselling. Typical RTE ****e.

druss

BrianD3 wrote: »

It is great and still looks and feel fresh. I don't know anything about filmography but I know that I like what I see in this show.

Broadcast late 2001 but filmed summer 2000. Simon Delaney was still in his twenties then!

This may have been something of a golden era for Dublin city - it was modern but technology wasn't as ubiquitous as today. No smartphone zombies. Rents and student fees were a lot cheaper. The property bubble hadn't gone completely mad yet. There were junkies in the city centre but probably not as many as today. The London Plane trees on O'Connell Street hadn't been cut down yet.

In one of the first episodes, Michael and his girlfriend are looking for an apartment (Well, she is. He is resisting).

There is a scene where he gets indignant because the rent is 900 per/month. Of course we find out that there are underlying issues...but a mere seven years later Michael would really have had something to complain about.

Mad_maxx

druss wrote: »

In one of the first episodes, Michael and his girlfriend are looking for an apartment (Well, she is. He is resisting).

There is a scene where he gets indignant because the rent is 900 per/month. Of course we find out that there are underlying issues...but a mere seven years later Michael would really have had something to complain about.

That would have been 900 pounds, euro wasn't in until 2002

Filmer Paradise

Didn't catch it the first time round. I was in the same age group as the lads back then.

So, for me it was a real nostalga trip for those times.

And yes, we all did smoke that much.:cool:

Alrigghtythen

Cutie 3.14 wrote: »

Why does yer one never wear a bra, were they not invented until 2003?

We were all more free and easy going in the 90s.

Granadino

Don’t get it. Can’t get into it but I was living overseas back then. Can’t relate

druss

Mad_maxx wrote: »

That would have been 900 pounds, euro wasn't in until 2002

True, but that is still circa €1000. The equivalent gaff would have been looking for double that a few years later and wages weren't close to keeping pace. And I wasn't a barrister with a foxy girlfriend. Although I didn't have a major gambling issue either.

druss

Deleted User wrote: »

I thought the girl was always wearing very little clothing for Dublin, especially in an old house like that. Even in summer.

I had forgotten how brilliant it was too. Back in the days when we expected greater things of RTE and they delivered.

On the other hand, in the same time-frame, maybe even on the same day, RTE launched "The Cassidys". Ed Byrne still walks among us.

Mad_maxx

druss wrote: »

True, but that is still circa €1000. The equivalent gaff would have been looking for double that a few years later and wages weren't close to keeping pace. And I wasn't a barrister with a foxy girlfriend. Although I didn't have a major gambling issue either.

its exactly 1143 euro

Ipso

Good old Lavor and his gentleman's wash.

Filmer Paradise

In all fairness Marcella Plunkett (as Allison) was a fine thing for the times. She looked liked she could be great craic in real life.

As a car fan , you notice how Raymond swans about in an old green Mercedes.

The Simon Delaney character has access to an old Jag.

Allison's boyfriend drives an old BMW E30 3-Series.

All these cars were old in 2001, but classic at the time.

Plasandrunt

Was watching and couldn't believe the apartment (well the outside)I bought 4 years ago was in it. The scene where Michael is sitting with all his luggage waiting on Jane (after he'd been caught doing the dirt with the blonde Rachel) in directly in front of my gaff. I think the apartment they bought is directly across from me

JupiterKid

Loved this show when it first aired.

I was in my first proper serious long-term relationship at the time (very early 2000s) and the two of us watched Bachelors Walk religiously on the TV at the time.

Saw that it was being re-run and have duly set it to record on my box.

PeterDuggan

Did anyone record Season 2, episode 2? Recorded the rest but missed that one.

Hangdogroad

Remember the episode where they go to I think Donegal and the local barman wont serve them as its Holy Hour?

SHOVELLER

Brilliant series and very relatable. The scene where Delaney falls drunk into the rubbish was one of the funniest things I have even seen!!!

That and Paths to Freedom show what RTE can do.

Strumms

SHOVELLER wrote: »

Brilliant series and very relatable. The scene where Delaney falls drunk into the rubbish was one of the funniest things I have even seen!!!

That and Paths to Freedom show what RTE can do.

Paths To Freedom was hilarious...

Batchelors Walk was good, fûck me, 20 years ago.

jimgoose

Great show, very slick and classy. Well cast as well.

bogmanfan

Rewatched the whole series a few months back. I loved it 20 years ago and loved it even more this time. Brilliant acting and writing, and great to look back at how Dublin was in those days.

riclad

Great show, nice to see a show where no one looks at a phone or uses social media.
Rte does not seem to make drama,s anymore , its cheaper to make talk shows or shows about property .the 90s seem like a very innocent time ,
before trump and the pandemic .

JustAThought

riclad wrote: »

Great show, nice to see a show where no one looks at a phone or uses social media.
Rte does not seem to make drama,s anymore , its cheaper to make talk shows or shows about property .the 90s seem like a very innocent time ,
before trump and the pandemic .

The pandemic has rewound the clock a fair bit. Apart from wifi in the house. Mine went for 4 days mid pandemic & I felt the loss badly!

Remember the good ole days when people were bored in their houses and would
drop around to hang out, or you’d play cards from boredom and get good at them, or chat & drink cups of tea when there was only shyte news on rte 1/2. And the ‘homeless’ wern’t demanding e2 000 rent a month appartment and then protesting the working poor wern’t paying for their gyms too.

Strumms

Strumms wrote: »

Paths To Freedom was hilarious...

Batchelors Walk was good, fûck me, 20 years ago.

At the time those came out I remember thinking RTE had turned the corner on comedy and were giving out opportunities for programes on a merit-based, non-nepotistic system.

20 years later I look at things like the overpromotion of Bridget and Eamonn and shed a little tear.

COVID

I think the big surprise when it was broadcast, and even now to some degree, was that a home-produced RTE comedy-drama series didn't turn out
to be the steaming pile of horse manure that most people expected.

Notwithstanding the nostalgia that the show evokes now in 2020, it is what it is, watchable and mildly diverting, with reasonably good production values.
Nothing more than that really.

Acosta

Just finished it last night. I had to watch the Christmas special on youtube as for some reason RTE haven't put it on the player. Actually the Christmas special was quite good. I enjoyed it a lot more than the ending of series 3.

I did see it first time around, but I would have missed some of it. It did make me feel quite nostalgic and made me think a lot about the late 90s/early 00s. Especially the first season which is by far the best.

The second season for the most part is fairly poor. The storyline with the old fella who moves in is ridiculous and feels really out of place with the tone of the show. The ending with the dog is a bit off too.

It gets better again with the third season, but it's all about the first season really.

Slightly depressing that these lads were much older than me when I first watched it and now I'm older than them watching it back. Although it's hard to believe Don Wycherley was in his early 30s during that. He looks way older. Sorry Don.

FHFM50

Just finished it there.

Great writing, Simon Delaney and Keith McErlean are great.

Don Wycherley's acting is bad if I'm honest. ( You wouldn't notice it in Father Ted as he only had like two lines)

Highlights : Michaels drunk scenes and Barry taking the computer course

Acosta

Yeah I think Simon Delaney is brilliant in it. FREE THE BEES! He's wasted presenting morning chat shows

Potential-Monke

Granadino wrote: »

Don’t get it. Can’t get into it but I was living overseas back then. Can’t relate

I was living down the country and couldn't get into it. Couldn't relate to most of what "the Dubs" were getting up to. Different world to mine at the time.

COVID wrote: »

I think the big surprise when it was broadcast, and even now to some degree, was that a home-produced RTE comedy-drama series didn't turn out to be the steaming pile of horse manure that most people expected.

Ah but it was. I don't know anyone who wasn't originally from Dubland that liked this show. Not one.