Kin - RTE & AMC

OmegaGene

it’s enjoyed in the U.K. because they likely think this represents true Ireland and gangster's and there’s not many Irish things made for the U.K. market outside of mrs brown and the two cork lads

Agent Coulson

Season 2 dropped on Netflix today.

Both season now there

Ten of Swords

Still an appetite for season 3 according to Kevin Bakhurst yesterday, looks like it will come down to the outcome of Bron bankruptcy proceedings and whether Charlie Cox wold be available.

The owner of that house near the Aviva must be going mad with people taking selfies outside 😂

https://www.thesun.ie/tv/13363102/kin-season-three-hopes-rte-kevin-bakhurst/

Paul_Crosby

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118003932#Comment_118003932

To be fair that would be the directing, looks like he's been told "do a Conor McGregor impersonation" basically

Paul_Crosby

Second season definitely better than the first, the first few episodes were so troublingly cliched I didn't think I'd make it far, it was kind of whiplash now they went from quite Americanized to introducing a character as gritty and vile (and realistic) as Brendan

The manipulating the Turkish cartel well... It still has it's faults, I suppose it's better than them taking them on and winning thankfully that story is done

I have to say I thought it was gonna be a beat for beat replay of the Kinahan Hutch feud , like a more in your face version of the references to real life incidents in love hate ( Hotel bust, Crumlin Drimnagh, accidentally shooting yourself in the head one of the Limerick lads did that etc) but there isn't much similarity at all save for the Kinsellas are supposed to be underdogs like the Hutchea were

Paul_Crosby

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117913121#Comment_117913121

Is it pronounced Quaylan or Keelan?? I always thought it was Keelan the Caolan I know

Pronounced it like that, I've never heard so many Qwaylans in my life

Paul_Crosby

"then there’s the 2 middle aged women involved in the gang"

YYou should have seen the likes of Wendy Millar of the UDA (had a woman tortured and beaten to death by teenage female UDA members, with her daughter in earshot of the attack, the teenage girls intermittently stopped the beating to smoke and talk about the disco later), or the ultra loyalist Muriel Gibson who has a half native American daughter named Rain who both planned and took part in petrol bomb and intimidation campaigns for the LVF, Gibson being slapped in the street by UVF commander lead to a heightened tension between UVF and LVF, with the UVF commander shot dead shortly after, leading to all out war

Millars sons were high up in Adairs C Company and their feud with the UVF, here is Herbie in a balaclava and his very distinctive voice, reading out a UDA/UFF (same thing) statement threatening to shoot people

No need for timestamp he's right at the start, vile brothers spawned from a vile woman

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AxzF5zPJJic&pp=ygUTSm9obm55IGFkYWlyIHZzIHV2Zg%3D%3D

rob316

Season 2 was better but it's all style, little substance. Love/hate was a far better representation of gangland Dublin.

thesandeman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122372914#Comment_122372914

Off topic a bit, but I'm watching Darklands for the first time on Virgin. That seems fairly authentic.

rob316

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122373199#Comment_122373199

Thought was awful shite, fair city level stuff. Mostly drone shots of bray too

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122372281#Comment_122372281

That's a first, a response to a post I made in 2021 😳

Paul_Crosby

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122374730#Comment_122374730

Aha yeah sorry was just reading through this first time as I've only watched it and of course it's the first thing you notice about the show is Vikings McGregor impersonation

Paul_Crosby

Sons of Anarchy took place in a small Midwest US town and it had Triads, Neo-Nazi faction, rival Biker gang, Russian Mafia, Italian Mafia, "True" IRA dissident republicans (who apparently don't mind dealing heroin, but they don't want to associate with BLACK drug dealers unless the price is right 😶, eh??) a UVF cameo in a driveby(less said about those Irish episodes the better) and I'm sure I'm missing some factions out, it was like GTA3

You can see the AMC influence and pandering alright in KIN, but it could actually be a lot worse 😂

Edit: Mexican Cartel of course, how could I forget the shootout between the Cartel and the True IRA

odyssey06

Yasmin Seky from the series will be on Dancing with the Stars - introduced on the Late Late Show tonight.

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122954205#Comment_122954205

Wonder what Viking thinks of that