Love/Hate (v2) [** Spoilers **]

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

They might save showing it until January when most people will have forgotten how Series 2 ended and they will try to lure people in to watching it on that stream of piss RTE Player.

Part of me wonders if this is a plot to get people on to the player... and its ad revenue.

Show series 1 on TV and get em hooked... you can watch the rest online

Ashbourne hoop wrote: »

She's very good in Derry Girls, but awful in Love/Hate.

Mad that she's a 17/18 year old in Love/Hate, and a 16/17 year old in Derry Girls, filmed eight years later!

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Mad that she's a 17/18 year old in Love/Hate, and a 16/17 year old in Derry Girls, filmed eight years later!

What age is she, mid 20s?

Muahahaha wrote: »

yeah that would a typical RTE move :rolleyes:

iirc seasons 3-5 were 6 episodes each so they could show one episode a week from now until Christmas. That would be too sensible for RTE though.

mloc123 wrote: »

Part of me wonders if this is a plot to get people on to the player... and its ad revenue.

Show series 1 on TV and get em hooked... you can watch the rest online

Stranger still that all series/episodes are available on the RTE Player on the web, but if I try the build-in RTE Player on my Virgin box, I can only get the most recent episode on catch-up.

Without a smart TV, is there any way to broadcast from the RTE Player on the web to a TV?

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Chromecast? Or HD cable from a laptop.

Chromecast is best though because there are no ads, I assume something to do with Google.

Thanks, but I don't have any option to broadcase to Chromecast from within the RTE Player? It works fine from Videostream, but not from the Player.

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Thanks, but I don't have any option to broadcase to Chromecast from within the RTE Player? It works fine from Videostream, but not from the Player.

Just for any other gobsh1tes like me who were missing the obvious;

1) It is possible to broadcast to Chromecast from the RTE Player on the laptop, if you use Chrome as the browser, and not Brave. However, the casting was a bit iffy for me, with poor quality audio and jumpy picture.

2) It is possible to broadcast to Chromecast from the Player app running on an Android phone, with excellent quality.

Ashbourne hoop wrote: »

Decided to try the Player last night for Season 3, worked perfectly ??? Very strong opening to season 3, but some of the acting from support characters (Donna, Janet..)is shocking. Nidge is class though.

yeah its on the Player alright but I've long since given up on using it out of frustration. I dont have a chromecast or smart tv with Player app and it always crashes and buffers for me. Netflix works perfect so its not my internet connection (which itself isnt great).

In any case if the Player did work I know Id just end up binging the entire thing over a week. I binged S1-4 of Better Call Saul but when S5 came along I was forced into watching it week by week as it got released. I actually enjoyed it more watching it that way rather than watching 3 or 4 episodes back to back and them all blurring into each other. I just found that its nice to absorb each episode as it comes and then have something to look forward to a week later. Its horses for courses I suppose.

Was house bound over the weekend so flew through it, last 2 episodes remaining. It's actually better than I remembered, although there is some very ropey acting at times.

Nidge has to be the best ever TV character on Irish TV. Spot on every time.

One thing I hadn't noticed before was the use of music throughout the show. Some excellent choices.

Ashbourne hoop wrote: »

Was house bound over the weekend so flew through it, last 2 episodes remaining. It's actually better than I remembered, although there is some very ropey acting at times.

Nidge has to be the best ever TV character on Irish TV. Spot on every time.

Yeah I noticed the same from S1 and 2, outside of the main cast there are some ropey acting performances from the peripheral characters. For a lot of them back in 2009 it was their first ever tv production so the directors were taking certain risks in casting them. The likes of Donnas character was never that convincing, even the IRA guy Danno had some ropey acting. But on the other hand you had Barry Keoghan playing psycho kid Wayne and he has now gone on to make waves in Hollywood with Dunkirk and Batman.

One thing I hadn't noticed before was the use of music throughout the show. Some excellent choices.

Theres some good tunes in it alright, I can remember using Shazam for the first time during Love Hate a decade ago to find out what artists they were by when I was watching. I love when a series comes with a cracking soundtrack, Breaking Bad was similar and it opened up a good few new artists to me by rewinding the tune and using Shazam on it.

Ashbourne hoop wrote: »

Was house bound over the weekend so flew through it, last 2 episodes remaining. It's actually better than I remembered, although there is some very ropey acting at times.

Nidge has to be the best ever TV character on Irish TV. Spot on every time.

One thing I hadn't noticed before was the use of music throughout the show. Some excellent choices.

We're up to the end of S3, and really enjoying it. I dreamt I was sending WhatsApp messages to Nidge last night, so maybe I should back off for a while now.

The acting is generally good to very good, but the writing is still brilliant. Moments that I knew were coming still had me jumping off the couch in shock.

We finished the full run through last weekend, and it really stands up as excellent quality TV. Still a few shocks and twists that had slipped my mind. Great writing, top performances from Tom Vaughan Lawlor, Charlie Murphy, Peter Cooney, Brian O'Byrne especially - got to be the best thing RTE ever did.

brian_t wrote: »

Series 3 returns to RTE2 on October 14.

There is an article on Love/Hate in the Magazine section of todays Irish Independent to mark its start 10 years ago.

Series 3 starts at 9.45pm on the 14th.

mloc123 wrote: »

Did the same with Bachelor's Walk... Showed season 1 and nothing else. Not like they are overflowing with decent content this year.

Series 2 starts at 10.45pm on the 14th.

Open the Pubs wrote: »

Season 3 on RTE2 Wednesday at 9:45 pm I just spotted on the guide.

Any repeat?

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Try the RTE Player

Don’t try the RTÉ player.

bazermc wrote: »

Watching season 3 again. Did the writers forget that Elmo had a missus and a kid for season 4 onwards?

I had forgot the actress is in Fair City now looking younger

Who killed Git, I missed episode 1 and can't remember, was it Tommy and Nidge?