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.
This is the most retarded theory anyone has come up with.
Season 2 was significantly better than the first, mainly because of Bren so I'm not sure will the next seasons be as strong. It needs more horrible characters, the rest are just not believable that could run a massive drug operation.
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Nobody escaped Bren's horrible comments. Poor oul dog there minding his own business over a pint.🤣🤣🤣
@citizen6 Thanks for that most edifying comment.
Good to know that you have an opinion anyway.
Harsh ......
Coulda worded it a bit better ?
Yes certainly .
Misspelled the word 'mention ' 😊
Anyway still stand over the premise that she is not a random character , the eyebrows note was just a bit of humour .
There have been many off the wall theories . One that supports the notion that Molly was just out for a bit of rough before she got married was one...
Why introduce the character and go with more than a one night stand unless there is more to it ?
Or maybe I am just seeing too much in it .
It was to show a softer and emotional side to Michael after his brother pulled him up for not being with anyone for years, once his heart was broken he was too weak to keep Amanda at bay
Michael shagging his own sister that moved abroad to avoid her father and sneaked back in as a pharmacist is off the wall
Agreed. People are overthinking things. This isn't Game of Thrones! Jenny and her Mam will no doubt turn up at some point but they're not going to be introduced by Michael having slept with his sister.
I think it showed that mickey would love to be out of the drugs circle and enjoy a normal life with a normal girl and raise his daughter.
He's in it cos he was born into it. He doesn't get off on the traipings of wealth and bling. He's in too deep, it would potentially be a bullet from his own family if he tried to get out.
There's still a mystery on how Anna's mam died....did he do it , or did he take the fall for it as the bullet was meant for him, or was he in jail for something different?
Also showed Amanda being jealous. I think she has something to do with Molly’s disappearance.
I don't know, maybe a big bribe to get Molly out of the picture? It's not implausible.
I always wondered if maybe Anna shot the mother.
Mickey comes home, high on whatever leaves the gun on the table and passes out. Anna would have been toddler age, picked up the gun and fired it accidentally hitting the mother. Mickey then took the fall for it. Anna too young to remember/blocked it out. ...that's my theory anyway.
It'd be an interesting angle if Amanda did 'have a word', but seems like that would have (should have!) been shown on screen over the course of season 2.
Yes maybe it is off the wall as a theory , lol, but its such an annoying plot hole not knowing what actually happened to Molly and where the mother and Jen went !
They talked more about it this season so hopefully next time all will be explained .
Yes she is very possessive of him , and she appeared a little off kilter going on about the mystery pregnancy so maybe she is going off the rails a bit ?
A lot to contend with , losing a son , running a business, never mind it a being a major drug empire , dealing with aggression from Bren and Jimmy after a miscarriage , beloved only son getting involved in murder and criminality , ..be enough to drive a woman over the edge I would think .
Just got round to watching S2. Never started it when it was airing weekly, having thought S1 was just good. Not great, just good.
But must say I enjoyed S2. Overall a solid show. Of course a bit clichéd in parts, but it's only a tv show, it can bend reality a wee bit.
A poor man's Love Hate perhaps, but that did set the bar very high tbf.
I will miss my drone shots of the Aviva.
The production company behind Kin has gone into bankruptcy and with the writers and actors strike the show is probably dead now.
Double post.
From what I’ve read online series 3 was already filmed with the fourth planned but that could be nonsense
Season 2 and 3 were filmed back to back so they do indeed have it ready to go.
Jesus the last strike in the US killed off dozens of great TV shows, I can't find fault in the 99% of writers and actors on strike fighting for a fairer deal but f off to the rich and famous pounding the pavements for the publicity take a page out of Tony Sopranos book, James Gandolfini took a whopper amount off a pay hike from David Chase and HBO back in early 2000s and divided it up to his fellow cast and crew the man was a legend.
Yeah season 3 was filmed and season 4 was due to begin filming in September when Daredevil was finished so Charlie would have been able to do both.
Can RTE & AMC find another big international production company to take it on the strike could effect that.
As said previously in this thread, Season 3 was never filmed. Despite some planted news stories to the contrary.
The American strike wouldn’t affect Irish writers either btw. There’s no disruption to (say) BBC or ITV productions for example
Peter McKenna is the only writer on the show and if he isn’t a member of the US writers Guild then he can write to his hearts content
However the strike would affect this series as it is a co production with a US Network so any of the actors on the show that are members of SAG-AFTRA would not be able to work on it unless they had a waiver to work on it.
Charile Cox, Adian Gillen, Emmett Scanlan, Maria Doyle Kennedy & Sam Keeley are all regulars on US series so they would all be members of the actors union.
sad to see it go as the 2nd season was miles above 1st season and a 3rd would probably have been better again .
It's not just a matter of finding a company to take it on. The big question would be about who owns the intellectual property of what has been filmed to date. If the company that owns the IP has gone bust, the receiver will be trying to sell that IP to the highest bidder.
Smash hit TV show Kin was missing from RTE's autumn lineup in a major blow to fans as concerns grow for the drama after the production firm filed for bankruptcy.
Might be life in it still..
RTÉ provide update on future of Kin amid fears show might never return
https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/kin-rte-780905
However, RTÉ said they are "still working" on getting the show back on the air and are "hopeful" that season 3 will come to the broadcaster.
RTÉ revealed their autumn schedule on Monday, with fan favorite Kin notably missing from the line-up.
"RTÉ would very much like KIN to return and continues to work with our international partners to make it happen," a spokesperson told the Irish Daily Mirror.
"We hope to have a further update in relation to season 3 in the coming months."
Just watched the finale last night having watched the rest of the season as it screened (life stuff got in the way). Have to say I forgot how good it was. It was as good an hour of TV as I've seen in a while. Not perfect, but bloody entertaining.
Kin star Yasmin Seky said she has kept her day job at the bank admitting she has no idea if the show will return.
The future of the RTE show was placed in doubt earlier this year after Bron Studios, the production company and financiers of the hit series, filed for bankruptcy. While reports previously suggested that season three is already in the bag, Yasmin confirmed no filming has taken place and she has no idea if or when it will.
The budding actor, who made her screen debut playing Nikita Murphy in the hit series, told the Irish Daily Mirror: “I have no idea where people got that idea [that it is already filmed], but no we didn’t. Initially, it had been greenlit, but I'm not sure if Peter [McKenna] has written anything yet, but we definitely didn’t film it back to back.”
Watched season 1 of Kin when it first came out and currently trying to watch season 2. It’s obviously not that bad but I feel it could have been an awful lot better. My main issues with it are:
the Bran character reminds me of Negan from “the walking dead”. He’s just a total caricature of a bad guy. He just comes across as a cheesy bad guy to me. Viking’s character then seems to be some sort of Pound Shop knock off version of Conor McGregor. It’s not the actors fault but Vikings character can sometimes be very cringe and not easy to watch.
then there’s the 2 middle aged women involved in the gang. I don’t find them to be believable characters either, birdie never really does anything of interest.
Aidan Gillen is one of my favourite Irish actors and his character is pretty bland too. Then the 2 main guys, played by Charlie Cox and the other guy with the pony tail just don’t hit the nail on the head either. Nothing wrong with any of their acting but I just think the casting of the show got it all wrong with the family.
I know the TV show is for American audiences so that explains a lot as regards the casting but the main family all seem like either students or professors at Trinity more so than being leaders of the biggest drugs gang in the country.
Normal People (for those of you that may have watched it) had a bit about Trinity students in it, imagine if they’d taken Aido, Elmo and all them fellas from Love/Hate and tried pass them off as trinity students. It’s the opposite of that that’s happened in Kin.
I guess I had very high expectations for Kin and personally I didn’t feel they were met. The main family seem more like a crowd that would be running a chain of fancy pubs that sell craft beers and restaurants that sell vegan burgers.
