Holding [ITV]

I'll reserve judgement until the second episode but stereotyped characters and all a bit lifeless so far.

Found it pretty poor

It was a bit uneventful.

Anyone know how I can watch the first episode? Seems like the itv player doesn't work in Ireland.

It's apparently coming to Virgin Media One soon- until then, your only option is a VPN for ITV Hub I think.

Am I the only one who liked it? Easy watching, nice scenery, colourful cinematography, nice characters, no violence against women. Ok, it's twee, but so what. Nice to see west Cork represented in a drama about a fictional murder of a man (!), instead of endless documentaries and programmes about the very real and very horrible murder of Sophie TdP.

I agree with some of your points Shelga. There was some good in it. But there was a lot of the stage Irish (esp Pauline McLynn and her pal), the West Cork accents for some were very forced (reminded me of the South Westerlies). Some interesting family set ups that will, hopefully, be developed better.

Bord Bia Bridges Smother Man gets around. I half expected Val and her Volvo to make an appearance although the weather was a bit too fine for her.

The sisters constant arguments a little tiresome. We get the idea of what their relationship is early on, there's no need to constantly beat us over the head with it.

Who is Brenda Fricker supposed to be, his sister, wife , housekeeper- maybe I missed that.

Agreed, it was pretty poor all told. The overacting that might work well in a stage production was lost in this.

There was a long list of gormless contributors so hard to single out one, but Pauline McLynn edges it.

The only characters who held a modicum of interest were the Riordan family spearheaded by Siobhán McSweeney. Unfortunately her cringeworthy lake battle with Charlene McKenna's character at the end of the first episode killed off any notion of suspense to come.

It feels cruel to write off a series after 1 episode of 4 but it's hard to imagine how it could be rescued.

I'm actually enjoying it. Easy to watch.

Don't think it strictly follows the book though.

Episode 1 repeated tonight on ITV at 00:05 for anyone who missed it or wants to watch it again 🙂

Just as I thought, you don't know what woke actually means. The people who use it the most never do.

In episode 3, Brenda Fricker did the only decent bit of acting of the entire series.

Graham Norton's 'Holding' to launch on Virgin Media More this April

Need to have VM box, won't be on saorview.

But going from reviews here, won't be missing much.