Kin - RTE & AMC

Impressive Cast

ACM and Screen Ireland, RTÉ don't really invest in any drama, I think Smother is their biggest own budget and Season 2 could easily be bankrolled by BBC/UKTV

It hasn't started yet, not sure if critics have seen previews.

Red Rock was much more of a Soap Opera than a Drama. It was better than most soap operas, towards the end it was desperate to become more edgy. It was push around the schedules too much and Virgin Media / TV3 really just wanted to drop it in the end.

It was going to be call Kin-a-klann

I'm still very excited for this but it's utterly moronic to let it air a few days earlier in the US than here. There'll be no communal Sunday night vibe as there was with Love/Hate the other 2010s dramas if they do it like this, the vast majority of the target audience will pirate it from the US the day after it airs over there.

Is it remotely possible they'd debut it the Sunday before, ten days from now on Sunday 5th September without any fanfare to that effect? It feels like if they haven't announced it already, it'll be the week after which will also be three days after the US air date.

I'm sure everyone is familiar with "Next of Kin" (a person's closest living relative or relatives.)

This based on the kinahan cartel family?

Not sure how I feel about something which appears to be ripped so closely from the current headlines. I’ll probably watch, but I can’t help wondering could they not come up with an original concept for themselves ?

RTE bosses have confirmed the release date for the broadcaster's new highly anticipated crime drama "Kin".

The show will be coming to the nation's televisions on Sunday, September 12th, and bosses are hoping the show will match the success of Love/Hate and run for several series.

Looking forward to this, Love/Hate as we all know was an excellent series and be interesting to see how this will distance itself from it

The airing in the US been earlier is a bit of headache considering (cough cough) how advanced the internet is. Was it Normal People that was aired in the states before here ?

I didn't really mean the Americans 😉

Me thinks 'boom boom'

I assume with AMC+ being a streaming service that Kin will be avilable to viewers in the US from first light US time on Thursday rather than being released that evening to them?

Just watched the first episode and it gets the thumbs up from me.

Very good, big thumbs up from me. Gillen is brilliant.

1: I think the standout performance of the episode had to be Clare Dunne (playing Amanda, Jamies mother). She just seemed to have the finesse for the type of Dublin Irish role that she was in properly. It's early days for the others but they were alright.

There were small bits early where it was a bit off-throwing like the subtitles for "get him his hole" being "give him his hold". 😬 Really hoping not to see Americans talking about getting their Holds in the future.. Might be hilarious though! 😁 Or other scenes like the young lads wanting to do a Save Game on a multiplayer car game and later the building site where viking meets his team... that was wierd that it existed or that it was looking wierdly lighted up with those kinda long halogen lights hanging off the ceiling. These were all just kinda niggles though.. but they all added up to a distraction for me.

That ending though raised the level of the Overall Story. It was

Will give the next episode a shot. Show might be going somewhere.

New slang I had to look up: Scorpy. Nikita said it when

New to me. Is it used much? I found this:

http://johnscabin.com/slang/S.html

Very good first episode

Bloody RTE would annoy ye for nothing been in sync with the US airings. Is what it is

The family tree surprised me a bit. Always imagined that Frank was the dad but turns out not (don't kmw how the hell to do spoilers and please admins do it to this post if they know how)

Will watch this but I don’t think it will reach the greatness heights of love/hate.

I thought the same, Frank is the boss, but Jimmy, Mikey and Birdie are his siblings. Eric is his son.

Definitely something happened with Amanda and Mikey before so interesting to see what develops there.

I thought Amanda had gotten a dig off her husband Jimmy, but that's a birthmark below the actresses eye 🙃

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_on-screen_graphic

I'm wrong, sorry

Frank - Boss

Birdy - Franks Sister

Jimmy - Franks Nephew

Eric - Franks Son

Mikey - Nephew

Hardly much spoiling going on, just working out the family tree

Think this explains the tree!

https://twitter.com/AMCPlus/status/1435670529382535171?s=20