RTE's new 8 episode gangland drama with an all star cast.
AMC start date is September 9th I can't see a start date for RTE just a coming soon.
I thought Love/hate was fantastic at the time, but having seen the Wire, the Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Deuce, Sons of Anarchy, and many other US productions since, it pales in comparison (while still being head and shoulders the best thing we've probably ever produced).
Great dialogue is what separates a top show from a mediocre one. Irish productions rely too much on background music to reinforce the point. And the dialogue is very space-filling and hammy. I think the producers are out of touch with their subjects. David Simon (The Wire), Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy), and David Chase (the Sopranos), seem to write about their direct experiences on the other hand. The little detail is there.
Eric's bird will be a spy yet.
Frank's fond of this no way back lark
I'm clearly doing something wrong, had 2k transferred to my account recently, was requested by my bank of 10 years to show proof of funds, DNA, sample and discription of the Jocks I was wearing at the time 😁
Even worse than Love Hate
Didn't think that was possible.
I forgive you, I've never said anything good, it's just awful, the entire series to date could have been shown in 1.5 hrs had they sped it up a little.
Ok anything good I said about this at the start I take back it's absolute rubbish. Boring, terrible dialogue, unsympathetic characters.
I'm enjoying this show but we are living in a binge era so this feels so slow. I want to see Frank's crowd get one of Eamon's lads tonight but I doubt it'll happen.
OH JESUS
I'd Say U2 are shiting themselves
How is money laundered in car dealerships anyways? I know cars paid for cash...but if the buyers name/details are recorded how do they keep getting innocent peoples names and how do they get the cash to them? Do they give these people payment for doing it?
And is a load of their cash not going to be lost by buying the new bmw's etc from the manufacturers??
Let's say someone had 30k of criminal money, wouldn't the car gang not have to buy a brand new BMW costing 25k? So they'd make 5k of clean money but lose 25k of their drug money?
Lazy dialogue.....as in 30 seconds of characters standing around looking out windows or into the fridge.
€30k.....and it reeks of pi$$
Hard to know what to make of this show. Has potential, but is guilty of some lazy and poor dialogue. At least Love/hate was comedic in parts.
Too many Dublinese and McGregorisms in parts. Michael seems to be the Darren of this series in that you sense there is a bit more than meets the eye. Emmett Scanlan, however, is stealing a living. Im watching it because there is feck all else on of a Sunday night. I don't think ill be raving about this down the line or recommending it to anyone.
I think the last thing I saw Colm Meany in was Gangs of London, not bad but not exactly a stretching role. He dies in the first episode then just appeared in flashbacks.
He was, but lost all my respect after his utterly dreadful performance in Star Trek deep space nine, I don't think he ever recovered 😁
It's painfully slow, first time watching it on the night, normally wait and watch on player. Talk about dragging out a story
The man was quite a hit in the 90s
Reminded me of a younger Colm Meany, can't think of why 🤔
RIP fat Jonny Sexton
Jesus, everything about it runs at a snails pace.
Amanda needs to be killed off. Useless character...terrible acting too. Just stands around looking sad the whole time.
I just read an article about the series' creator and write Peter McKenna. His previous experience includes being lead writer for RTE's The Clinic and initial creator and writer of Red Rock. Peter has written some episodes of Eastenders, Holby City and Casualty. He wrote for a BBC nursing drama called Frankie, which led to his involvement with a BBC period drama called The Musketeers.
That's not what happens in real life, though, is it? The car tends to be burnt out fairly close to the scene, when they switch to another vehicle to continue their escape.
Been already done....
Cork?
That really would be jumping the shark 🤣
How is Antwerp going to work out?
Don’t shoot the messenger !
"Absymal" says the man who could only stomach "20 minutes" of the first episode before turning it off because it was so bad.
Yet here he is, four weeks in, still watching and still complaining. You could set your clock to his weekly outrage about how terrible it is - I wouldn't mind but he doesn't even wait for it to turn up on RTE, he has get in there and watch it early because it's so absymal. I'm getting some heavy "I can't quit you" vibes here. 😂😂😂
Takes all sorts I suppose.
Go south, an episode in Cork?
I don’t get the hate for this show. It’s solid, watchable and believable plot wise and it’s very slickly produced, filmed and scored.
it could go south of course.
Thought it was another decent episode. I'm at a loss as to the people who say there isn't enough action. It's a crime-drama. I mean, it's not as if Sopranos or Breaking Bad were full of people getting whacked left right and centre?
And, having said that, I'm absolutely not comparing Kin favorably to those shows, obviously it's not worth the steam of their piss, but the fundemental point remains - why would you expect crazy action from a crime-drama?
Even its closest relation, Love/Hate, was paced very similarly in all fairness. There has been "action" every episode.
I get people not liking it for various reasons. But "not enough action" seems quite strange to me. There's exactly the right amount of action for a show of its ilk as far as I can see.
All in all, I'm really enjoying it and while the plot, dialogue and acting might not be top notch, I find it paced just fine.
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