Kin - RTE & AMC

It's in preproduction already.

I'm actually staggered at how bad it was. 8 episodes later, it's over 3 odd weeks, and I couldn't even care less who died by the end of it. From the plot to the pace and most baffling, the casting. A show about Dublin gangsters and Ciaran Hinds and the Con Doyle lad were about the only believeable ones in the entire cast (oh, and the patriarch who made a 3 minute appearance from prison)

Where even to start-

• Drug lords post John Gilligan tend to live in, with the odd exception, average ex council and suburban semis. Simply can't get away with anything bigger, bar a few lads who made their money pre CAB and came to various levels of settlement. House may be kitted out to the nines internally and in the back garden, but standard homes nonetheless for the most part. Hard to explain a mansion when passing yourself off as a moderately successful car dealer, horse dealer, builder etc etc. For the Kinsella's to own a three or four house compound in the shadow of Landsdowne Rd, exactly how many of them are working for the car dealers and how successful is it.
• Bizarre plot bits. Why was Amanda hopping on the husband for a middle of the night ride barely 24 hours after her son was shot dead?
• Middle class actors, with middle class accents, middle class dress sense, spending most of their days in a middle class area. Gilllen's job was to look grumpy and pissed for 8 episodes. Dunne's, to stare out windows and play some sort of alpha female. Nikita, to look astoundingly hot and do little else for the first 7 episodes. Birdy, the family Consigliere who seems to be housebound.
• Appallingly scenery shots- most of Love Hate took place in Dublin's grimier estates, clubs and pubs. Most of Kin took place in a Dermot Bannon renovation.

It's not beyond the realms of possibility that your man's daughter is mixed. Nor the cousin's missus. Their henchman, while statistically unlikely I can think of at least three gangland figures of said background.

When the lead Garda investigator, Amanda's lawyer, at least one social worker, their receptionist, and pretty much every second extra is of an ethnic background, it starts taking the piss a bit.

If this was critically lauded, imagine the Sopranos, except a Sopranos where nearly none of the main cast were actually working class Italian American actors, where all the lawyers were black instead of Jewish, where none of the cast actually dressed in the Fila tracksuits and button up casual shirts that Italians in NJ wear, where Carmela ended up taking over the mob because of male infighting, and so on.

That was Kin, basically. It's biggest failure being that by the final episode I couldn't care less who got killed.