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.
More a propaganda piece in opposition to " Direct Provision " than a TV series
Because he's a dumb ass
I laughed when I saw this review this morning, not at sure if the reviewer is looking at the same series as some of us.
I'm just amazed there's any positive feed back on this series, but then again, the equally awful Vigil (BBC) got 5 stars from various UK reviewers and that was a floating Turd disguised as a submarine drama.
Re Peter McKenna, I actually saw that in an article in the Irish Times!
Re the attached article about Kin, I agree with most of that article and includes some of the reasons why I like it.
a slow pile of steaming shyte .....
I said the same about Vigil, but they had an excuse, it was a drama centered around a Submarine 😁
Unoriginal cliche ridden garbage compounded by awful acting
Couldn’t put it better myself
This. Just this.
I 3rd That , the forced emphasis on the F word in last night's pathetic episode made me wonder were some cast members in urgent need of having to have a S****
How does Aiden Gillen still get work.
He is shocking in everything, between his terrible accents in Game of thrones, to talking out the side of his mouth is this and having the physical presence of my nan. He Just seems like a terrible fit for a gang land boss.
Does he charge less ?
Must be that .... Love/Hate only took off after his wooden acting/stunted speech left
He'll certainly be getting less after this Shyte 😁
I know it's hilarious. Before the first episode was even on RTE Beechwood was telling us it was shite and he'd turned it off after twenty minutes! But four hours in and he's still watching it and still complaining - when it would be so easy to just it off. This level of obsession makes suspect there is some kind of agenda here - he's a disgruntled ex-RTE employee or a Virgin Media troll.
Birdy is the one I don't trust, something about her I'd be very suspicious of. The show is just way to slow for anything to happen and with it been a weekly release doesn't help it either
I'm not sure if its because my expectations were so low, but I found last nights episode 'watchable'.
It stepped up a level from crap to mediocre at least.
Charlie cox put in a solid performance. EMJ was absolutely woeful again, totally unbelievable, which is surprising as he can be quite decent in other things.
Anyway, I'm hanging on by a thread but there was enough last night to keep me watching, until the next episode anyway.
Well, he did start it all.
I'm a bit freaked out at the way Birdy is with Mikey
I'm a bit freaked out by the way Birdy is, full stop.
She gives me the absolute creeps.
Oh, and anyone saying this isn't 100% based on the Hutch-Kinahan feud is in lala land, it's as if they filmed the whole thing as it was happening.
I remember thinking the same about Love-Hate and the Crumlin/Drimnagh feud at the time, it was as if they had a hotline to events as they were happening.
This is a textbook boards.ie thread for a homegrown TV series. For all the perpetual complainers there, you do know we live in the era of practically unlimited access to entertainment? You've seen four episodes now, nobody is making you...
yeah several key moments in crumlin/drimnagh were in love hate, one i recall right now is the hotel cocaine bagging story, lads got high on their supply and drew attention to themselves
do they even have many of the first names as the hutch/kin feud?
not too many caolan and nikkitas around
Love/Hate was great because a lot of its story showed the bad areas in Dublin and other seedy places, eg Wayne shooting the cat, Ado and his bird living in the grotty flats, the setting where Darren knocked on the door and shot the homeowner and kid I think, Frans caravan, all the old style pubs and seedy nite clubs.
Thus Kin seems more interested in showing the silicon docks area of dublin, and must have got a cheque from Aviva for all the landsdown road scenes. Too many slow scenes with close ups of Amanda face. And the hits, apart from ‘Caolain Moore’ have been filmed terribly.
It is very average. It's slightly picking up. Not sure why the insist on different detectives in each episode/scene they are required.
I guess it becomes a heist series from this point on.
Was the guy who shot Fudge the same one that shot Jamie? Only saw him very briefly in the scene, the scrawny ginger lad.
He wasnt one of the guys in the callout vid that got sent to Eric afterwards (I think)
This maybe true but after all the Hype and alledged stellar cast, it's turned out to be quite the damp squib (I'm being generous)
I just find it hard to understand with a generous Budget, straightforward enough plot, the makers of this could make such an arse of it. The acting is appalling, the story dragged out to death, the settings just ludicrous and unbelievable, the Gardai portrayed as being bumbling muppets, one character actually taking safety precautions via a bullet proof vest (despite being in bed most of this last episode), the rest prouncing around like lost sheep with not a care in the world and the Gardai getting a share of a takeaway last night just silly.
The daily Web broadcast of mass from parish churches around the country on the RTE news channel throughout the pandemic was more gripping.
This could have been good, this certainly would have fitted into a 1.5 hour special.
Yes, the baby faced assassin who was buying sweets at the start of 1st episode. Those 2 hits have been filmed shocking bad, too dark and not shown from viewpoint of the shooter.
It will also become an internal war now that Amanda knows that her son was killed because the Viking started the shooting.
Its made for American audiences, they literally put a Mcgregor (eric) lookalike and sounds like in the show.
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