Young Offenders TV series (BBC3 / RTE)

I actually like it. Not quite up to the peak of Killinaskully at its peak but not far short.

I don't see how they could be compared anyway. Two completely different shows.

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Cork and Derry are the second largest cities in respectively ROI and NI. Hardly provincial towns.

Other than that I agree with your post

If it's not the capital, then its provincial. I'd call them big towns and I've lived in Cork City most of my life.

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Cork is the capital of PR Cork.

Not to mention the best city in Ireland!

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

You don’t spell Limerick that way

You can spell it Crime Ilk!

I think the lack of intelligence of the two of them has become a parody at this stage.

Standing beside the door trying to talk to each other with Healy at the other side, and them not realising the space they had to work in until Mairead pointed it out, was amateur and pretty much dragged out over half the episode.

The overuse of foul language does not a comedy make either.

I liked it. Probably could do with a few new characters though.

OmegaGene wrote: »

I find it strange the amount of people saying they watched it and giving poor reviews here, if I don’t like something I don’t watch it, I watched it over two nights and had a few laughs
I am not sure what people are expecting from this tbh it’s a light hearted situation comedy with the characters taking the pi55 out of themselves and each other - it’s not meant to be Shakespeare

Well how are you supposed to know if you like something or not unless you watch it?

I watched it and found it unfunny. The story line and they way they acted it out was almost cringe.

I haven't seen the film or previous seasons.
Someone else in the house put on ep 2 the other night.
I was half watching it while searching the internet for a used car.
As a comedy I thought it was fairly weak, dragged out and unfunny.
I said something like "is this supposed to be funny? Its $hite!"
The person watching it (who has watched all the seasons) muttered something about it "not being as funny as it used to be..."

I watched the first two episodes of season 3 on Player and really enjoyed both.

The criticism here is completely ott. Granted the series has its flaws and most of season 2 was poor but the Conor, Jock and Billy characters are really funny in their oafishness and stereotypical Cork accents. And maybe some sketches lack originality and maybe there's a bit too much bad language but so what if it makes people laugh!

Do people not need a laugh in these glum times? I sure do and it did just that. So looking forward to the next episode!