Taken Down [RTE]

Beechwoodspark · 25-11-2018 11:07PM

Good Jasus this is woeful stuff

The hard chaw character is just a bad joke

Icsics · 25-11-2018 11:10PM

Poor ole Gardai not doing much right!

Beechwoodspark · 25-11-2018 11:12PM

The black fella with the brown cap is woeful as well. Script is rubbish. I’m out.

FixdePitchmark · 25-11-2018 11:12PM

I gave it every chance - but is terrible.

FixdePitchmark · 25-11-2018 11:15PM

I mean - 60% of the show is her going to work or doing work - not even over exaggerating

It should have been called - working in Dublin, except her Bus route is way better than she would get in real life.

Other Names

The Job
The Bus
Working in Dublin
The Walk to the Bus
Bus Route
Back of the Bus
The Double Decker
No Change

Very racist too

clfy39tzve8njq · 25-11-2018 11:16PM

Don't think there's any hope for this it's worse than awful

FixdePitchmark · 25-11-2018 11:16PM

Colby Blue Denim wrote: »

Don't think there's any hope for this it's worse than awful

No 2nd series anyway

riemann · 25-11-2018 11:19PM

The garda meeting room scene was a new low

riemann · 25-11-2018 11:22PM

riemann wrote: »

The garda meeting room scene was a new low

I was wrong

clfy39tzve8njq · 25-11-2018 11:22PM

The cork gaa jersey :-)

Lisha · 25-11-2018 11:22PM

riemann wrote: »

The garda meeting room scene was a new low

To be far lowered by the brothel scene!

clfy39tzve8njq · 25-11-2018 11:22PM

FixdePitchmark wrote:

No 2nd series anyway

Christ no

Lisha · 25-11-2018 11:22PM

riemann wrote: »

I was wrong

Funny

castletownman · 25-11-2018 11:23PM

Ah here. Vintage Cork GAA jersey just to make it clear to us he is a culchie guard.

Wonder did he go the whole hog with the big one though

Icsics · 25-11-2018 11:23PM

Why is it always nighttime? Is it all the same night?

25-11-2018 11:23PM

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Good Jasus this is woeful stuff

The hard chaw character is just a bad joke

He's overplaying the dublinese a bit i agree. i thought he was very good in Love/hate and he plays the sleazy slimeball very well.

Lisha · 25-11-2018 11:23PM

castletownman wrote: »

Ah here. Vintage Cork GAA jersey just to make it clear to us he is a culchie guard.

Wonder did he go the whole hog with the big one though

And it too small for him and all

mr_edge_to_you · 25-11-2018 11:25PM

Lisha wrote: »

And it too small for him and all

Left his coat behind too!

Lisha · 25-11-2018 11:26PM

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

Left his coat behind too!

No doubt so he’d have an excuse though go back..

Icsics · 25-11-2018 11:27PM

Bet they'll all be gone!

8mv · 25-11-2018 11:41PM

Going against the concensus here I know, but I thought that was a good episode. The first three episodes had some issues but the pacing was pretty good in this one. Confining most of the scenes to the brothel helped to move the story along and the focus was on a small group of characters. I think the acting was good in this one - especially Abeni, Toby and Benjamin.

FrancieBrady · 25-11-2018 11:43PM

8mv wrote: »

Going against the concensus here I know, but I thought that was a good episode. The first three episodes had some issues but the pacing was pretty good in this one. Confining most of the scenes to the brothel helped to move the story along and the focus was on a small group of characters. I think the acting was good in this one - especially Abeni, Toby and Benjamin.

Yep, wasn't going to bother until the trailer kinda got under my skin. It is very intense and building nicely now.

25-11-2018 11:45PM

8mv wrote: »

Going against the concensus here I know, but I thought that was a good episode. The first three episodes had some issues but the pacing was pretty good in this one. Confining most of the scenes to the brothel helped to move the story along and the focus was on a small group of characters. I think the acting was good in this one - especially Abeni, Toby and Benjamin.

Toby looks very like Paul Pogba.

dartboardio · 25-11-2018 11:49PM

It got awfully dark very quick when Toby was bringing Abeni to the alleyway!

Good episode, as was the last one. Abeni is becoming my favorite character

Jaysus can’t believe all the hostile comments arguing over whether or not it’s bloody good, it’s a new show on RTE it’s hardly going to be winning an Oscar, but hey it’s something to watch at 9.30 on a Sunday night - we don’t usually have that option unless it’s eh.. room to improve , or Francis Brennan

We’re getting awful picky for our small little country with very limited ‘made at home’ shows. Just shurrrup and watch the thing or don’t.

ANDREWMUFC · 26-11-2018 12:05AM

Benjamin is gas

VeVeX · 26-11-2018 01:41AM

dartboardio wrote: »

It got awfully dark very quick when Toby was bringing Abeni to the alleyway!

Good episode, as was the last one. Abeni is becoming my favorite character

Jaysus can’t believe all the hostile comments arguing over whether or not it’s bloody good, it’s a new show on RTE it’s hardly going to be winning an Oscar, but hey it’s something to watch at 9.30 on a Sunday night - we don’t usually have that option unless it’s eh.. room to improve , or Francis Brennan

We’re getting awful picky for our small little country with very limited ‘made at home’ shows. Just shurrrup and watch the thing or don’t.

So we cant make a good TV show because Ireland is a small country?

We are fed mediocre crap because it'll do, it'll do for most people especially those with the small country mentality. Its what has RTE the cesspool of over paid talentless gobshítes that it is. Because ok is deemed to be ok. We are happy with subpar rubbish because Ireland is a small country, bollocks to that.

26-11-2018 02:08AM

Ah here, the scene with Tayto from into the west and the other cop on surveillance was absolutely brutal. :rolleyes:

Could they be more suspicious?

Redneck Culchie · 26-11-2018 02:11AM

People might not be so hostile if they weren't forced to pay the TV license and endure this garbage on the state broadcaster and pay the wages of obscenely paid parasites like Ryan Tubridy and Ray D'Arcy. RTE can't make decent television unlike abroad. That is because it is absolute cesspit of nepotism and well connected talentless chancers stealing a living at the taxpayers expense.

The Late Late Show · 26-11-2018 02:12AM

VeVeX wrote: »

So we cant make a good TV show because Ireland is a small country?

We are fed mediocre crap because it'll do, it'll do for most people especially those with the small country mentality. Its what has RTE the cesspool of over paid talentless gobshítes that it is. Because ok is deemed to be ok. We are happy with subpar rubbish because Ireland is a small country, bollocks to that.

Did not watch it tonight and did not see anything here to convince me either to watch it or not to watch it so far! But the excuse of Ireland being a small country is not enough. Ireland was able to make Love/Hate when the IMF were around and the post-Iraq war recession was at its worst. Going on the first 3 episodes of Taken Down, it was just another variation of Striking Out.

The Late Late Show · 26-11-2018 02:21AM

Redneck Culchie wrote: »

People might not be so hostile if they weren't forced to pay the TV license and endure this garbage on the state broadcaster and pay the wages of obscenely paid parasites like Ryan Tubridy and Ray D'Arcy. RTE can't make decent television unlike abroad. That is because it is absolute cesspit of nepotism and well connected talentless chancers stealing a living at the taxpayers expense.

Exactly. It is clear from episodes 1-3 that Taken Down is a tame and uninteresting drama, the exact sanitisation of drama RTE have been doing the last 4 years. The best dramas/films on RTE TV this week were The Handmaid's Tale, Live and Let Die and Mad Max Fury Road, neither of course made by RTE!!!! RTE's Taken Down is supposed to compete with such dramas and films and sold to an audience who loved Love/Hate (which made me proud of Irish drama and made in an era when RTE ignored the minority who cried 'torture porn' each time Nidge, Fran, Darren or Dano killed or beat up or shot someone).

I have no doubt Stuart Carlon and probably Jo Spain wrote a good story with Taken Down. Then, RTE took it and ruined it. Lesson is: NEVER let RTE get their hands on your drama as they will ruin it. A few people complain about a shot cat or a raped Fran the man and so much so wrt the cat they had to have the cat shown on TV ALIVE! RTE was moving in the proper direction when they did Love/Hate but have regressed back to The Big Bow Wow ever since.

Taken Down [RTE]

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