Cant Cope Wont Cope

I'm not sure about this...

Excoriated in the Herald, first 2 episodes watched by reviewer

It is like a program about binge drinking so far.

Irish people are so classy...like.

As a 21 year old I have to say a lot of this is very accurate! Can relate to a lot, but not sleeping around or pouring vodka into a glass into the toilets. Nor would I ever leave a friend on her own in a nightclub by herself! Never been in Coppers so can't verify that! Only thing that annoys me is the use of the word 'like' excessively..do Cork people really use it THAT much?

I'm already hooked! I can see they're building the drama element aswell with Aisling, like when she was desperately trying to deny that she slept around and also when she wouldn't tell Danielle that Fergus was trying to contact her. Anyone know how old the two girls are meant to be? I know twenty something but they're both working so must be maybe 24/25 or more?

I enjoyed it. Im in my 40's and it appealed to me. Did the whole going straight to work from a session thing. Never went to Coppers though. Club 92 was our haunt.
Nowaday the thought of going out after work makes me want to puke!

It's always a bad sign when something is billed as a 'comedy drama'. That usually means something that was meant to be funny but hasn't turned out that way.

And that was the case with Can't Cope, Won't Cope. While many of us, young or old(er), would recognise the behaviour of the main characters, and it seemed fairly true to life for some people, that's not enough to make a good show.

It simply wasn't funny.

RobertKK wrote: »

They all seem to love it on twitter.


Taxi driver gets rid of them from the Taxi but is there for them hours later...

Garda roadblock for a stolen car would be the more glaring plot hole to pick up on.
One of them called the taxi driver back in the morning.

It's not a great show. The production is decent and the acting is fine but the content is where it's let down. Comedy/drama issue that is mentioned above. It's trying to rush to find it's feet and coming off the worse for it.

The main problem for me is with the main characters. I got more of an idea of the characters from hearing the maker and actor talking about them on Ian Dempsey but I got none of what they were talking about when watching the show. They were supposed to be best mates from Cork who move to the big smoke, only one of them comes up that little bit later and the divide has already begun. That's the impression I got from the chat.

On screen they were just two boozy Cork girls in the big smoke, no back story. They seem to be rushing to make tension between them without investing the viewer in their relationship as genuine best mates. Sure, we see them on the lash in Coppers and having the crack, vomiting and what not, but that means feck all. Show some true bond with the characters, let them breathe for a few episodes before going about straining the friendship you haven't yet invested in with stolen cars, borrowed money, not telling the friend someone called on her phone, the worry for where the other friend is headed ("she's got work in 2 hours like.." sad face). They've set one of the girls on the path that, for how a tv show likes to represent it, makes it look like she has a drink problem in her future story-line. Between that and the scene about getting the pill, they're trying really hard to make it look like she's going out of control with her lifestyle.

It's fair enough in how it represents binge drinking in the show, that's how it is to many on nights out but it can't decide whether it's fun or pathetic. It tried to do too much, yet not enough in how it's portraying their lifestyle in two episodes. I'll be curious to see how it is as a whole series but currently I am not a fan.

Also, Amy Huberman and the girl on the ball were badly written caricatures.