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Love/Hate

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  • #32
    Brego888
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭Brego888


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    I too don't like the popular thing. Now we are both the coolest people ever.
    I actually found it to be pretty good.

    Ah get off your high horse


  • #33
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    Brego888 wrote: »
    Ah get off your high horse

    You are a sassy man.


  • #34
    dirtyden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    I thought it was quite good.

    Some of the acting and storylines are patchy, but some also is excellent.

    It can hold its own with much of what's on tv. Obviously the production values and acting on some of the big budget American tv shows will look better in comparison but their budgets will dwarf Love/Hate.


  • #35
    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭sabat


    By the end of the last season it had totally run out of ideas and was reduced to padding out each episode with montages of traffic and sequences of people getting in and out of cars and what little plot there was wasn't fully logical, but one or two episodes from the previous two seasons were simply world class television. In particular, the night out with the IRA guy that went badly wrong was one of the best hours of television I've seen-in terms of tension and pacing it was up there with the best of Breaking Bad or The Wire.


  • #36
    sblythe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭sblythe


    I watched Love/Hate because it was the only decent thing on at the time and my girlfriend insisted upon it. I spent the whole episode trying to figure out where in Dublin they were filming, but in time it grew on me, and I started paying more close attention to the plot, trying to guess who was going to kill who first, and now I can't wait for the new series.


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  • #37
    forgotten password
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,094 ✭✭✭forgotten password


    hey

    love-hate is a reakky good show


    everybody should waqtch it at least once or twice


  • #38
    better call saul
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 412 ✭✭better call saul


    I was very skeptical when I heard all the hype but it is actually very good in fairness to them

    Better than watching the following knobends

    Kathryn thomas
    Fade Street
    Tallafornia
    Off the rails
    Nationwide
    Jersey shore
    The fatally unfunny Katherine lynch
    The equally unfunny mcsavage
    Crystal swing
    Best in the big Blue house
    Any gombeen on 2fm


  • #39
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    better call saul wrote: »
    I was very skeptical when I heard all the hype but it is actually very good in fairness to them

    Better than watching the following knobends

    Kathryn thomas
    Fade Street
    Tallafornia
    Off the rails
    Nationwide
    Jersey shore
    The fatally unfunny Katherine lynch
    The equally unfunny mcsavage
    Crystal swing
    Best in the big Blue house
    Any gombeen on 2fm

    Thats like saying getting hit in the balls is better than having a limb chopped off.


  • #40
    Mal-Adjusted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,658 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    Ah the "you're angry card"


    Well what else would you call this rant?
    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    Season? Season???
    I fckin hate that usage.

    SERIES.
    SERIES.
    SERIES.

    Bog off with yer feckin sycophantic Americanisms.

    Boils my piss, that does.

    PS yes, it's overhyped and basically ****.

    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    file under the trivial thread elsewhere.
    off you go so
    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    It's always been series here, season is an affectation.
    I suggest you take it up with your T.D. so if you're so upset by it.

    Also, my favorite season is the second one :) I thought the fourth season suffers from
    the death of Darren, the marginalisation of Tommy and being the main character doesn't suit Nidge


  • #41
    Snake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Snake


    forgotten password wrote: »
    hey

    love-hate is a reakky good show


    everybody should waqtch it at least once or twice

    I did watch it twice... Still crap.


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  • #42
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,490 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Mal-Adjusted wrote: »
    Well what else would you call this rant?




    off you go so


    I suggest you take it up with your T.D. so if you're so upset by it.

    Also, my favorite season is the second one :) I thought the fourth season suffers from
    the death of Darren, the marginalisation of Tommy and being the main character doesn't suit Nidge

    Dry shíte.


  • #43
    Ferris_Bueller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,830 ✭✭✭Ferris_Bueller


    I loved it. Very harsh to say it's not a good show IMO, maybe over rated but I don't think it's fair to say it's a poor show. I'd actually say it was the most enjoyable TV series I've ever watched despite the 4th season being a bit underwhelming, but different strokes for different folks and all that.


  • #44
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    better call saul wrote: »

    Better than watching the following knobends

    Kathryn thomas

    I will fight you.

    Kathryn is great on the telly because i want ride the hole off her.


  • #45
    upandcumming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭upandcumming


    I really like it.

    For most season three is where its at and it's the same for me, but I also loved season 2 simply for Aiden Gillen. He was superb! The other characters really came into it then too.


  • #46
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,167 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    upandcumming wrote: »
    I really like it.

    For most season three is where its at and it's the same for me, but I also loved season 2 simply for Aiden Gillen. He was superb! The other characters really came into it then too.

    And then they undid all the good work by making season 4!


  • #47
    .jacksparrow.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,428 ✭✭✭.jacksparrow.


    Would it be as famous in Ireland if it was set in England or America and was based on situations there?

    Is it really that good or is it just we can relate to it.


  • #48
    Caliden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,981 ✭✭✭Caliden


    The only people freakin about it are those who have never seen the Wire.

    Don't get me wrong, it's great that it's Irish based and is successful but it could've been so so much more.


  • #49
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,964 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Brego888 wrote: »
    Just finished the first season of Love/Hate.
    What the hell was all the fuss about? It's like fair city on steroids

    It gets much better. I wouldn't judge the whole show on the first series alone.

    The introduction of Fran took it up several notches.


  • #50
    Moat_Cailin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭Moat_Cailin


    Haven't seen it. Looks pretty bad from the ads.


  • #51
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    They should have stopped at season 3. Season 4 was ****.


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  • #52
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    I will fight you.

    Kathryn is great on the telly because i want ride the hole off her.

    She is James Nesbitt in drag.


  • #53
    vetinari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭vetinari


    It's easily the best show from RTE over the last couple of years.
    Most people I know find it entertaining.

    I think some people over rate it because its irish and some people think it's **** because it's Irish.
    Some of the posters here would probably think it's a decent show if it was set in Oakland.


  • #54
    MS.ing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭MS.ing


    theres not many series on tv that has me waiting for it to come back, but Love/Hate is one of them. Its stylish and well done which is what makes a show to me like The Killing (US one)

    Its like an irish Sopranos


  • #55
    Peist2007
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Peist2007


    MS.ing wrote: »

    Its like an irish Sopranos

    Blasphemer!


  • #56
    MS.ing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭MS.ing


    Peist2007 wrote: »
    Blasphemer!

    only difference is the accent, location, budget and car reges


  • #57
    MS.ing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭MS.ing


    vetinari wrote: »
    It's easily the best show from RTE over the last couple of years.

    thers a back handed compliment if I ever heard one! - thats not saying much tbh


  • #58
    Peist2007
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Peist2007


    MS.ing wrote: »
    only difference is the accent, location, budget and car reges

    The acting, writing, plot, direction, editing, cinematography would also be miles ahead. If we're breaking it down


  • #59
    Reindeer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Reindeer


    Not saying I'm addicted, but I've been eating my sim cards after every call I make. It's becoming expensive.


  • #60
    vetinari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭vetinari


    MS.ing wrote: »
    thers a back handed compliment if I ever heard one! - thats not saying much tbh

    It wasn't meant as back handed! It's a good show period.
    Imo it does stand up well against most of the big US TV series.
    Sure Sopranos and Breaking Bad are better than it but you're talking about some of the best shows ever made there.


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  • #61
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,964 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Most American TV series are shite. Considering that the producers of 'Love/Hate' have a fraction of what most US TV shows have, they do a great job.


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