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.
Again style over substance.
Obviously I can't afford it anyway but it's just a fancy tree house really. Wouldn't be for me.
Tbf that bone scene did come in series 4 or 5? ...........try looking back at the first couple seasons of L/H now, it was a pretty amateurish portrayal of gangland every bit as much as the accusations of this........only difference is there seemed to be a bigger cast of 'baddies' , this all seems a bit too close knit for a major crime family .........their gang only seems to have consisted of 3 henchmen and 2 are now dead
When Eamon was off his head and started hallucinating about the swimming pool etc, what’s the link with Amanda. Or was it just about the fact that Eamon killed Amanda’s son and was feeling guilty about it or is it something completely different. I was a bit lost
Doing well in Ireland too, an article just after episode 5 aired said it had more viewers than the Late Late show.
Charlie Cox said he'd love to come back for a second season (so I think it can be extrapolated that Mikey is alive at the end of ep8!!). Him and Ciaran Hinds are sill the heavyweights of the show in my view
Hopefully it gets better in the next season, I just can't get past the idea that the Kinsella family have seemingly no man power. Just like 3 henchmen, 2 of which are dead and the last is a rat. That makes no sense at all, how could a gang with such "notoriety" have no means to protect themselves?
Cox and hinds are great and most certainly are the heavy hitters which leads me to question how s2 would look. I mean they obviously are paving the way for amanda to be the leader which I mean she already has been puling the strings. So it will be interesting to see a woman at the head of a crime family.
If it comes down to a power struggle it'll be Amanda vs Birdie (and Amanda is not a Kinsella, as they are so fond of reminding her). While they'd been fairly indifferent to her up until now Birdie was fairly hostile towards her, and Viking was downright abusive to her, when they told her they Viking wasn't handing himself in.
I think Claire Dunne is acting the part really well but I think the script writers are giving her too many moody silences and long camera close-ups, it moves from arty to irritating very quickly (not her fault at all but I think it's why people aren't warming to her character)
Well if it will be Birdie vs Amanda, then I think Amanda would have to sell her out. At first I thought that she would sell frank out and maybe still will but frank seems willing to listen to Amanda and doesn't throw it in her face that she isn't a "kinsella." Birdie while having had little to do, its clear that she has quite a big influence on Frank and he always listens to what she says. I mean if it weren't for birdie, frank would've gone with what amanda plan.
As for Dunne, shes been fine, nothing special but not terrible either. And to be fair, I don't think there's really any character you could warm up to. Perhaps Mikey, but not really anyone else.
Ridiculous story line. Michael poured petrol over Con's son and threatened to burn him alive to get the location of the drugs but Amanda/Michael leave their kids out in public (more of less) unprotected.
It stretches credulity too far.
Just can't get over the fact they thought it was too dangerous to go to Belgium to meet a drug dealer yet Jimmy, Mikey, Amanda and Frank have been out and about Dublin despite stealing 50m of gear and having targets on their back.
They thought going to Belgium was unsafe because it could have been a setup.
It's clear Amanda and Birdy are the brains in the family
I thought Eamon was going to a place to help his ex die on her terms, was it a yoga retreat?
Did you watch the episode? It was an ayahuasca ceremony.
Yes I watched, what was it?
https://gaiasagrada.com/what-happens-in-ayahuasca-ceremony-with-ayahuascero-shaman-description/
I thought you could only get these ayahuasca nights in places like the jungles of Peru and Colombia. Do they happen in fancy houses in the Wicklow mountains and are they completely illegal?? Has anyone ever taken it?? I know there have been recent reports of British travellers dying in SA as result of it.
i gave up and don’t watch it but sounds like it hasn’t improved much over the last few episodes.
the type of BS inconsistency you have identified is exactly why I couldn’t be arsed with it
It could be the guilt about Jamie being caught in the crossfire and causing harm to a mother then connected to causing harm to his own mother when she died trying to save him from drowning. Amanda was the one comforting him at the end of his hallucination so he may feel more sympathetic to her when he returns to his real life.
I might have missed this but did Amanda actually ring the guards about the Vikings car involved in a shooting etc
No. I assume the guards decided to nab Viking because the violence was escalating.
No I don’t think so, and she didn’t really need to. They had him on a number of cctv’s. Frank and Birdie knew he would get taken in but are willing to chance he will get off.
Doubtful, it certainly wasnt shown on screen if she did.
They knew what type of car it was and where it came from (ie, her dealership) and she saw from the cars GPS that Eric's route took him past several cameras. The guards were probably able to get a clear image from checking cameras in the area
ah ok. The gospel that is the sun newspaper seems to think Amanda called the guards ;)
They happen everywhere, illegal here and in most of Europe but not in Italy, Spain and Portugal amongst other places. I've never been to one but pals have in England and Hungary. Not hard to find here, ceremonies take place in private houses but I assume those who run them will be cautious about people they don't know. Same as for any party in the country where drugs are likely to be present.
I thought Amanda might have called the guards myself, it all happened very quickly after she told Frank he was making a big mistake. But I suppose we will find out. If she did, they probably would have shown it.
I thought she did too and that's how she happened to be standing looking out the window when the police arrived.
She holds him responsible for her son's death so couldn't really see her towing the line tbh.
She spends a lot of her time looking out the window in fairness.
You can do them here, but apparently the dosage is much lower than in other countries. I think they are still illegal, but just overlooked, as they aren't really connected to organised crime, and are relatively safe.
I presumed so too as she seemed to be actually standing waiting
You'd generally take a peek if 6/7 noisy cop cars arrived in your tiny street and started kicking doors down.
There's a possibility she called the guards but it wasn't shown on screen and it'd also be an unnecessary move as they were going to come anyway. A risky play from a woman who is clearly smarter than the rest.
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