Darklands? The new Love/Hate?

The Late Late Show · 12-10-2019 08:53PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Hey Late Late don't forget on Friday, Netflix: El Camino.

Re-watching my Breaking Bad DVDs at present finished part 1 of season 5 last night so will finish part 2 then over the next week and then will watch El Camino. It is going to be hard then to climb down to Darklands!

donkeykong5 · 12-10-2019 09:59PM

rob316 wrote: »

The school of thought was the Love Hate cast were too pretty to come across as gangsters but if you force it too much you end up with ****e like this. Hammy characters and awful accents.
Love Hate had a core cast of characters you could root for and looked like normal lads and then were supported by proper looking thugs. That way the characters stood out and you could appreciate the acting and character building.

Nidge, John Boy, Darren, Tommy, Frano - all different and unique.

The casting director for love hate was maureen Hughes. SHE did an amazing job. She also helped to make love hate believable with her casting.

12-10-2019 11:51PM

Drug shipments in broad daylight, well I never, the guards have only gone and lifted a pile of coke off a lad acting shifty in broad daylight in the one and only Bray. Perhaps not so uninspired after all!

freshpopcorn · 14-10-2019 10:15PM

Well who's watching?

Naked Lepper · 14-10-2019 10:34PM

me, unfortunately. absolutely dire stuff.
fair city would prob be better lol

Mr Regal · 14-10-2019 10:34PM

Was looking forward to this show, looked decent from the clips.
Yet again we're let down by **** acting, terrible dialogue, not a great storyline, unrealistic scenes.
Shert for shirt ?
Burnie for Bernie etc... That doesn't happen in that life. Big no no.
And Butsy? Ask my a**e. No gangster worth his salt is called Butsy.
Just look at 'Shooters' set in Liverpool and mainly a cast of Non Actors, amazing, great authenticity.
Jimmy Smallhorne is the best of this cast and he's miscast, should be a gang boss.

The Satanist · 14-10-2019 10:36PM

Hang on, is this supposed to be serious? I thought it was some kind of parody Damo & Ivor fake skanger thing. It's awful.

Andrew00 · 14-10-2019 10:37PM

Chronic stuff

mick malones mauser · 14-10-2019 10:38PM

Usual nonsense
Dreadful acting
Dreadful accents
And the obsession with "gangsters molls"

Naked Lepper · 14-10-2019 10:38PM

the drone footage is the best thing about this ****e

14-10-2019 10:38PM

Gave it another go but not impressed. The chap who plays Damien seems a great actor. Very natural. The Dublinese is jammed up to the jaws of death with the rest.

freshpopcorn · 14-10-2019 10:40PM

I think this is one of the worst TV series I've seen in a long time.
I honestly can't take any of it seriously!

tayto lover · 14-10-2019 10:41PM

What a load of crap. Pure rubbish.

The Satanist · 14-10-2019 10:42PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The Dublinese is jammed up to the jaws of death with the rest.

Inserting "youse" and "fuuuuccccckkkkk saaaaaaakkkkke" into every sentence is obligatory, it seems.

The Satanist · 14-10-2019 10:46PM

Uncle Goose looks like he got released from a Village People world tour rather than the 'joy

14-10-2019 10:47PM

The Satanist wrote: »

Inserting "youse" and "fuuuuccccckkkkk saaaaaaakkkkke" into every sentence is obligatory, it seems.

It's like a Fool Arms and Hog sketch

Mr Regal · 14-10-2019 10:48PM

The Satanist wrote: »

Uncle Goose looks like he got released from a Village People world tour rather than the 'joy

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Absolutely. Another stupid name Goose

ricero · 14-10-2019 10:53PM

Jasus Git is fair ****e at the acting

freshpopcorn · 14-10-2019 10:55PM

The Satanist wrote: »

Uncle Goose looks like he got released from a Village People world tour rather than the 'joy

It's like he went to Jail in the 1980's and came out with the same image!

baldbear · 14-10-2019 10:57PM

I'm going to stick with it. I want to see how Damian gets on. Love hate was slagged off when it started.

Acting isn't great here. But its not the worst.

Don't slate me.

14-10-2019 10:58PM

Damien on top of the Hill. Is he going to start shouting "Draaaaaagoooooo" ala Rocky?

Atlantic Dawn · 14-10-2019 10:59PM

Can't understand the reasoning for the teenagers involved in MMA being the main story of it, they should have went with unemployed lads in their 20's who were desperate to make cash.

14-10-2019 11:00PM

baldbear wrote: »

I'm going to stick with it. I want to see how Damian gets on. Love hate was slagged off when it started.

Acting isn't great here. But its not the worst.

Don't slate me.

God love your optimism

I think both Damien and the Girlfriend are decent characters. The rest is a complete and utter mess. Butsy?? Good grief

freshpopcorn · 14-10-2019 11:11PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Can't understand the reasoning for the teenagers involved in MMA being the main story of it, they should have went with unemployed lads in their 20's who were desperate to make cash.

I think MMA had a bad reputation before this and this is really playing to it!

y0ssar1an22 · 14-10-2019 11:45PM

they're loving the drone shots. getting tiresome now the amount of them. enjoyable all the same

Bodhran · 15-10-2019 12:11AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Gave it another go but not impressed. The chaps who plays Damien seems a great actor. Very natural. The Dublinese is jammed up to the jaws of death with the rest.

His name is Dane Whyte O'Hara. Apparently he has no acting experience.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/i-was-gobsmacked-dane-applies-for-role-as-extra-on-virgin-medias-new-series-darklands-and-ends-up-as-star-38450331.html

15-10-2019 12:34AM

Bodhran wrote: »

His name is Dane Whyte O'Hara. Apparently he has no acting experience.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/i-was-gobsmacked-dane-applies-for-role-as-extra-on-virgin-medias-new-series-darklands-and-ends-up-as-star-38450331.html

He is the best of them. No hammy overacting. I think he has a good future in acting if he pursues it but this show doesn't. Its a complete and utter shambles. It makes Fair City look as good as the Wire.

mick malones mauser · 15-10-2019 10:50AM

For a country that has produced world renowned writers,playwrights,actors,theatre companies,movie directors,scriptwriters,poets etc how f***ing bad are we at this "TV Drama" stuff.
Doing stuff on the cheap explains some of it, not paying for proper voice/accent coaches,not paying enough extras for realistic scenes (how many times are the main actors the only people in the pub shop etc) but even allowing for that this is awful

At least no Gleesons were harmed in the making !!!!

Elmo · 15-10-2019 10:57AM

mick malones mauser wrote: »

For a country that has produced world renowned writers,playwrights,actors,theatre companies,movie directors,scriptwriters,poets etc how f***ing bad are we at this "TV Drama" stuff.
Doing stuff on the cheap explains some of it, not paying for proper voice/accent coaches,not paying enough extras for realistic scenes (how many times are the main actors the only people in the pub shop etc) but even allowing for that this is awful

From what I can gather, TV3 put this forward for Sound and Vision Funding, expecting to get others involved, it sat waiting to be produced before realising that it wasn't going to get other investors. I think it possibly barely got anything from TV3.

In fairness Blood is a much better series.... but then you can see the funding difference.

Rowley Birkin QC · 15-10-2019 11:50AM

Why were they smuggling drugs in the middle of the day in an actual port whilst dressed like extras from adam and paul......Whhhhhhhhyyyy?

Darklands? The new Love/Hate?

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