Love/Hate [** Spoilers **]

CALLING ALL IRELAND WITH A MESSAGE FROM SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY IS FROM A WORKING CLASS AREA IN DUBLIN AND HAS KNOWN SOME SERIOUS SCUMBAGS IN MY TIME

This attempt by the D4 based RTE types to portray a realistic 'gritty' gangland working class Dublin, really is pants.

Nobody from working class Dublin talks like they do on love/hate

Nobody from working class Dublin dresses like they do on love/hate

No criminals/scumbags act like they do on love/hate

The whole thing looks like its shot around Knocklyon or Castleknock, not places you would find many tough gangsters

Id imagine if it were filmed round the likes of the Inner City or Finglas the 'tough guy' gangster actors of this show would get eaten alive

And I dont know many gangsters who look like lead character of Love/Hate, with his indie band haircut, Brown Thomas getup and stick thin skeletal figure.

Not a nike tracksuit, one back and sides haircut in sight

Im afraid for me its just hate instead of love/hate

Again RTE and the Irish film industry fail in attempting to capture working class Dublin

criticalcritic wrote: »

CALLING ALL IRELAND WITH A MESSAGE FROM SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY IS FROM A WORKING CLASS AREA IN DUBLIN AND HAS KNOWN SOME SERIOUS SCUMBAGS IN MY TIME

This attempt by the D4 based RTE types to portray a realistic 'gritty' gangland working class Dublin, really is pants.

Nobody from working class Dublin talks like they do on love/hate

Nobody from working class Dublin dresses like they do on love/hate

No criminals/scumbags act like they do on love/hate

The whole thing looks like its shot around Knocklyon or Castleknock, not places you would find many tough gangsters

Id imagine if it were filmed round the likes of the Inner City or Finglas the 'tough guy' gangster actors of this show would get eaten alive

And I dont know many gangsters who look like lead character of Love/Hate, with his indie band haircut, Brown Thomas getup and stick thin skeletal figure.

Not a nike tracksuit, one back and sides haircut in sight

Im afraid for me its just hate instead of love/hate

Again RTE and the Irish film industry fail in attempting to capture working class Dublin

It's fiction not a documentary bro.

criticalcritic wrote: »

CALLING ALL IRELAND WITH A MESSAGE FROM SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY IS FROM A WORKING CLASS AREA IN DUBLIN AND HAS KNOWN SOME SERIOUS SCUMBAGS IN MY TIME

This attempt by the D4 based RTE types to portray a realistic 'gritty' gangland working class Dublin, really is pants.

Nobody from working class Dublin talks like they do on love/hate

Nobody from working class Dublin dresses like they do on love/hate

No criminals/scumbags act like they do on love/hate

The whole thing looks like its shot around Knocklyon or Castleknock, not places you would find many tough gangsters

Id imagine if it were filmed round the likes of the Inner City or Finglas the 'tough guy' gangster actors of this show would get eaten alive

And I dont know many gangsters who look like lead character of Love/Hate, with his indie band haircut, Brown Thomas getup and stick thin skeletal figure.

Not a nike tracksuit, one back and sides haircut in sight

Im afraid for me its just hate instead of love/hate

Again RTE and the Irish film industry fail in attempting to capture working class Dublin

almost the same as saying kirk douglas never looked like a real cowboy, their teeth would never be that clean...
it's a damn good series and well put together

coolegrain wrote: »

almost the same as saying kirk douglas never looked like a real cowboy, their teeth would never be that clean...
it's a damn good series and well put together

Its slightly better than the last but still way far out and unrealistic

keith_d99 wrote: »

Sure was - She's Lost Control

Thanks - who was the cover by?

Hi guys could anyone tell me where John Boy's apartment is?? I noticed Croke Park in the background of a scene in last weeks episode and its just been annoying me.
Thanks in advance.:D

Virtual hi 5 wrote: »

Hi guys could anyone tell me where John Boy's apartment is?? I noticed Croke Park in the background of a scene in last weeks episode and its just been annoying me.
Thanks in advance.:D

I think its in drumcondra somewhere? Found it! 53.364658, -6.247164 pop them into google maps, and you should be able to see his decking.

Really good stuff so far.
I could see Season 1 (4eps) and 2 (6eps) being packaged as a single 10 episode season and finding a slot somewhere in the States. Fairly sure it would have no problems getting an audience (who wouldn't notice things like accents etc that we do). Which would hopefully allow RTE to commit to a 8 or 10 episodes next year - theres definitely scope to expand the story and for example bring the police side into it.

criticalcritic wrote: »

CALLING ALL IRELAND WITH A MESSAGE FROM SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY IS FROM A WORKING CLASS AREA IN DUBLIN AND HAS KNOWN SOME SERIOUS SCUMBAGS IN MY TIME

This attempt by the D4 based RTE types to portray a realistic 'gritty' gangland working class Dublin, really is pants.

Nobody from working class Dublin talks like they do on love/hate

Nobody from working class Dublin dresses like they do on love/hate

No criminals/scumbags act like they do on love/hate

The whole thing looks like its shot around Knocklyon or Castleknock, not places you would find many tough gangsters

Id imagine if it were filmed round the likes of the Inner City or Finglas the 'tough guy' gangster actors of this show would get eaten alive

And I dont know many gangsters who look like lead character of Love/Hate, with his indie band haircut, Brown Thomas getup and stick thin skeletal figure.

Not a nike tracksuit, one back and sides haircut in sight

Im afraid for me its just hate instead of love/hate

Again RTE and the Irish film industry fail in attempting to capture working class Dublin

I think it's great - fair play to RTE.

They did a great job making Tommy look like a (hot) knacker - and he HAS a short back and sides complete with fringe gelled down!Where I come from, that is knacker-chic!! Aidan Gillen is very clean cut looking but he has the snarl down to a T, so that makes up for it. The ginger heroin addict is poor, but it is believable that she is a little rich kid gone wrong either... So we'll give her the benefit of the doubt. Fran from Chill insurance also has the sneer perfected, good man Fran! Your one with the fake boobs looks, smells, acts and talks like a tramp so she's sorted, the creepy new young fella is naive looking but rough around the edges aswell, Ruth Negga is thankfully not in this series as she is as intimidating as a koala bear, and While I have said in the past that Darren looks like a fairy - it is also somewhat believable because his character doesn't actually want to be a criminal. PLUS, maybe his father was a dashing mexican drug overlord and his mother was a cocaine-addled model and that's how they produced such a adonis-like specimen...? Just because he's hot and tanned doesn't mean he can't be a gangster - it's certainly not the norm, but its possible!

And nidge is great - what was once a kind of funny characature of the dublin scumbag has now taken a more sinister turn as he pledges his undying loyalty to the gangland world.

All in all, I'm pretty happy with it!

JohnBoys house is in Ballybough - pretty rough IMHO. Also, the top dogs usually buy houses in nice areas no?
Another scene had them down around the canal near Rialto, and one just round the corner from me on Church St. Far from CAstleknock or Knocklyon...
And I work up near Finglas with people that would be northsiders for life and funnily enough, they wear jeans and tshirts aswell!

Lisha wrote: »

Ainekav wrote: »

I SO would

Girls: GET YOUR HANDS OFF HIM HE'S TAKEN;)

On a calmer note- not all drug dealers fit the picture of the 'how a ya' scumbag.I worked for years in an environment where these guys could dress up or down like a chameleon, to suit their needs.Joe Soap would be very surprised what/who some of these guys really are.

Yes this is a fictional drama- but it's a good one.

Was Johnboy's daughter around or mentioned last season?