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Gangs of London - Sky Atlantic

  • 12-02-2020 6:36pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,881 ✭✭✭✭


    Gangs Of London, from The Raid director Gareth Evans.

    Joe Cole leads a cast also featuring Sope Dirisu, Colm Meaney, Lucian Msamati and Michelle Farley. The show depicts the gritty underbelly of a fictional London controlled by international gangs, with violent power struggles emerging after the head of one crime family is assassinated.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    I'm not seeing much story beyond a lot of people about to experience a world of pain..
    which Gareth Evans can deliver.. in spades..

    So then it's kinda down to the rest of the plot I'm guessing. How did Sky get this?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,734 ✭✭✭larchielads


    Slydice wrote: »
    I'm not seeing much story beyond a lot of people about to experience a world of pain..
    which Gareth Evans can deliver.. in spades..

    So then it's kinda down to the rest of the plot I'm guessing. How did Sky get this?
    Its a sky original , says so in the trailer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,881 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Slydice wrote: »
    I'm not seeing much story beyond a lot of people about to experience a world of pain..
    which Gareth Evans can deliver.. in spades..

    So then it's kinda down to the rest of the plot I'm guessing. How did Sky get this?

    Cinemax are/were involved in commissioning it for the States so it's a co production like Strike Back.

    However since Cinemax has now stopped making original series since it is being folded into HBO Max it looks like Sky are going it alone for now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Its a sky original , says so in the trailer


    They're the network but not the producers.

    Wiki says the producer is: Hugh Warren
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_of_London_(TV_series)

    I'm guessing they paid him for the rights.

    He's done other shows:
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0912857/

    Recently he's had Hanna which got decent reviews.. but before that Hard Sun.. which I don't remember seeing good reviews for.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Cinemax are/were involved in commissioning it for the States so it's a co production like Strike Back.

    However since Cinemax has now stopped making original series since it is being folded into HBO Max it looks like Sky are going it alone for now.

    Cinemax means it could be decent.. to me.. based on Banshee mostly


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  • Registered Users Posts: 520 ✭✭✭Full_Circle_81


    If it's Gareth Evans, I have to give it a look. Joe Cole is great too (was amazing in Prayer Before Dawn).


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Slydice wrote: »
    Cinemax means it could be decent.. to me.. based on Banshee mostly

    Yet being a "Sky Original" kinda makes me think it isn't. Just something about Sky's "own" that they end up kinda rubbish. Good pedigree behind it though, and you can see Evans' work with The Raid in the action.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Michelle Farley and her son wanting revenge for the death of her husband. What could go wrong


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,495 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    23rd April episodes out


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    has there even been 1 series financed by Sky Atlantic that was actually worth watching?

    I know that there have been several complete turd buckets.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,495 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    If it's Gareth Evans, I have to give it a look. Joe Cole is great too (was amazing in Prayer Before Dawn).

    He was in Peaky Blinders also, reminds me of a mix of his co stars from that Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy, he is definitely one to watch


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,297 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    I watched this this evening and thought it was very good but it also has a lot of violence in it and blood. I thought they could have had the mob boss in it longer but maybe they just wanted to get that done quick. Colm Meaney is in this by the way.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Butson


    I Like this, fight scenes are so well done, reminded me of Kill Bill a bit
    Seriously violent which may not be to everybodys taste

    Not your standard cockney gangster show.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    This show is bonkers, and very enjoyable. The plot is quite generic but the over the top violent action scenes I love :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Episode 5 is crazy. Not seen action scenes like this ever in TV before


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,304 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Loved this pretty blooming violent!
    Gareth Evans definitely can do an action scene


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,881 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Banshee and above levels of violence is a good thing and that is just after watching the first episode.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,357 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    I just watched episode 5. That was one of the best 1hr of tv I have seen in years. It was like a mix between a modern day straw dogs, django unchained and the matrix. Bloody brilliant.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    first episode pretty wild.

    good choreography for the bar fight scene

    The son Seán though is a bloody grate so far though.

    To be fair to sky seems better than the vast majority of their productions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,881 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Gareth Evans directed episodes 1 & 5 himself.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,881 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    The final scene at the end of episode 4 with the mirror was fantastic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,881 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Man episode 5 was a fantastic and tense hour of TV.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,250 ✭✭✭ooter


    watched first 5 episodes, 1 and 5 the standouts so far


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,434 ✭✭✭Homelander


    Banshee and above levels of violence is a good thing and that is just after watching the first episode.


    Well that's me hard sold.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,357 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    Think this is first time I have seen the traveller group represented by Wales in a big tv series or movie. I suppose they didn’t pick Ireland as they had to already have Ireland as origin of Colm Meaney and wife characters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Seems like this is a very bingeable show?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,881 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Well the ending is a bit of a mixed bag for me story wise, Action wise it is best show since Banshee.

    Left open for a second season and are the real money men supposed to be spooks?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,304 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    OmegaGene wrote: »
    I don’t think they were referred to as the traveller group in episode 1 Lol
    They just referred to the two guys as pikeys


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Definitely ran out of steam episodes 6-9. Worth a watch overall due to the action scenes but the plot dragged it down


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,357 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    Unearthly wrote: »
    Definitely ran out of steam episodes 6-9. Worth a watch overall due to the action scenes but the plot dragged it down

    Agreed. Still very watchable. It was all a bit unrealistic tho, unlike Top Boy.
    But episode 5 was sensational, up there with the best episodes of all the best tv series.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,496 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Just watched Episode One tonight. Wow. Thought it was brilliant. The aforementioned fight scenes were amazing television as well choreographed as any film. Tarantino would be delighted with all the excess blood :D

    Looking forward to follow this through to the end, but I won't binge watch as I want a consistent schedule to get me through the lockdown. Netflix is for the bulk viewing :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,355 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Old fashioned top dog gangster storyline, Guy Ritchie without the one liners. Grim, tense, bit comic book at times.

    Its clear enough where the money has gone, but honestly the cinematic fight sequences take away from it for me. Too many ordinary gang grunts trained to the level of Seal Team 6 to be plausible. Have to hand it to them though for their creative ways of endling life. Lale's husband was a new one on me!

    I've done 4, would I recommend it? Yes, but only after you've watched Ozark, Succession, the Outsider and a few others.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,251 ✭✭✭✭Lemlin


    Anyone else having issues downloading future episodes? Sometimes my download fails and has to restart and says “subscription needed”. What subscription would I need?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Lemlin wrote: »
    Anyone else having issues downloading future episodes? Sometimes my download fails and has to restart and says “subscription needed”. What subscription would I need?

    Had an issue with 1st episode and had to download it about 3 times. No special subscription needed, just an annoying Sky bug


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,164 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Old fashioned top dog gangster storyline, Guy Ritchie without the one liners. Grim, tense, bit comic book at times.

    Its clear enough where the money has gone, but honestly the cinematic fight sequences take away from it for me. Too many ordinary gang grunts trained to the level of Seal Team 6 to be plausible. Have to hand it to them though for their creative ways of endling life. Lale's husband was a new one on me!

    I've done 4, would I recommend it? Yes, but only after you've watched Ozark, Succession, the Outsider and a few others.

    those critiques are why evans fans tune in ( like myself)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    Seen the first 3; great show so far. Looking forward to episode 5, expecting a corker, and bit of an anti-climax for 6-9; good to know. As well as the fantastic fight scenes, I love the internationalism, with the snippets of backstory; just enough insight to add narrative weight and tension, while keeping it trim.

    As for the 'Gareth Evans fight scenes', a line from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace is appropriate: "I don't care what universe you're from; that's gotta hurt". Gratuitous violence is perfectly fine, when it's done to a high standard.;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,881 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    I would take a wild guess this will be renewed.


    However Sky have now halted all production on there original dramas till Spring 2021 so it will be a long time before season 2 hits the screens if it is renewed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,355 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Watched 5 tonight. Mental.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Just plain daft by the end - story, writing and acting ranged from fairly to very shoddy.

    notable only for the violence by the end.

    couple of good episodes but the overall after-taste was... not great.

    like what was that really stupid scene at the end with the
    Floriana one randomly coming up to the presumably dead Marian at the park bench. and those cliche "investors" in the limo ffs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,805 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Watched 3 episodes so far. Loving the fight scenes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Bowlardo


    How come sky have not delivered a proper series yet.
    The have **** loads of money behind them.
    The writing always seems off and the cinematography tends to be in the amazing side

    Fortitude- looked amazing but was ****
    Tim Roth is Alaska- looked amazing but was ****
    Gangs of London - looks amazing but poor enough characters dialogue

    Chernobyl was a co production with HBO so Sky can’t claim that one.

    Also the churned our some absolute bollocks on sky movies.
    The one in Upton Park, some twister 🌪 type movie, anon woeful


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    lertsnim wrote: »
    Watched 3 episodes so far. Loving the fight scenes.

    That one with the gypsy butcher and the cleaver! The end where he falls on the blade is unreal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Bowlardo wrote: »
    How come sky have not delivered a proper series yet.
    The have **** loads of money behind them.
    The writing always seems off and the cinematography tends to be in the amazing side

    Fortitude- looked amazing but was ****
    Tim Roth is Alaska- looked amazing but was ****
    Gangs of London - looks amazing but poor enough characters dialogue

    Chernobyl was a co production with HBO so Sky can’t claim that one.

    Also the churned our some absolute bollocks on sky movies.
    The one in Upton Park, some twister 🌪 type movie, anon woeful

    Agreed. The best one is probably Save Me but it's the type of show BBC would do regularly and would be middle of the road compared to their best offerings


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭funkyouup


    Just finished the season, fight/combat scenes we're fantastic throughout, story was a bit out there(along with Joe Cole's accent at some points) but i really liked it over all.
    Shock factor wasn't as high as something like Gomorrah or Blinded by the lights but very enjoyable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Coming to the end of ep 8. Enjoyable enough but tbh I'm browsing boards and twitter while I'm watching too .

    Youd nearly get the impression from watching that london is populated exclusively by gangs and criminals :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭Hintel


    It would be the worst business move ever , locking down the sale of heroin

    If it were even possible


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    Hintel wrote: »
    It would be the worst business move ever , locking down the sale of heroin

    If it were even possible

    that's the least of this show's problems.

    Joe Cole was more wooden than a totem pole for one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Class MayDresser


    Coming to the end of ep 8. Enjoyable enough but tbh I'm browsing boards and twitter while I'm watching too .

    Youd nearly get the impression from watching that london is populated exclusively by gangs and criminals :)

    Ditto. I know you're supposed to suspend belief watching these things but that shootout in Wales in the country house and on the pier, how many bullets does it take to kill one man? Turned it off at ep. 8, only thing interesting was the relationship between the Albanian and the Nigerian.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,164 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    glasso wrote: »
    that's the least of this show's problems.

    Joe Cole was more wooden than a totem pole for one.

    absolutely loved the show but joe cole was weak


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    glasso wrote: »
    Joe Cole was more wooden than a totem pole for one.
    There's films and shows about wanna-be gangsters. Joe Cole is a wanna-be Tom Hardy, except all that comes across is dodgy accents and a look of constipation. (maybe successful then, depending in your viewpoint of Tom Hardy :pac:)


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