Clean Break - RTE.

From the trailer, it looks to be good. With the absence of Love/Hate this year, I hope this series lives up to that standard. The Glenroe curse I think influenced Irish drama for too long and that's why we got half cooked fare like The Big Bow Wow and Trouble in Paradise that sort of pointed in the right direction but were afraid to go all the way and ended up very poor.

Love/Hate changed Irish drama and set the bar and broke the glenricular curse. Clean Break will no doubt be a sort of reworking of Love/Hate. It looks good and hopefully it does not disappoint.

s8n wrote: »

I think they should bring back Glenroe tbh

Whatever one thinks of it, Glenroe was a series that worked in its day and indeed, was probably good in its early series. Later on, it became stale and the original writers had moved on from it.

Bringing it back now would probably not work. Since the series was based so much on the Mick Lally and Joe Lynch characters and since those two actors are dead, it would not be the same. As well as this, Mary McEvoy's character was killed off in the series too. Other characters were also killed off in it and a lot of the other actors are probably dead by now too. Bringing back Miley and Biddy's children and cameo roles by Emmet Bergin, etc. would be one way to do it but it would be a different series.

But what if Glenroe actually did survive past 2001 and was broadcast up until say 2014? The most likely way it would have gone is like Emmerdale. Gone would be statements like Well holy god and Are there antin stirrin and it would take in influences from Love/Hate and so on. Rural criminality and dissident republicanism would come into it and who knows, even Fran the man might surface in his caravan! Just look at how Fair City evolved for a comparison of where Glenroe would be at if it survived to this day or to recent years.

But back to Clean Break. The current audience of course want series to be like Love/Hate. Whether Clean Break and other future dramas inspired by Love/Hate will be as good or as popular remains to be seen. I am looking forwad to Clean Break and very soon we will see if it is a second Love/Hate or a second Big Bow Wow.