Clean Break - RTE.

Atlantic Dawn · 04-10-2015 09:33PM

This will be a one off series whether it's a ratings hit or not, there's not the characters or storyline to create anything others than a 1 off series.

Mr.Crinklewood · 04-10-2015 09:39PM

If I were a criminal I would now leave DNA on a cigarette and throw it away at a meet up spot

Dan Chipowski · 04-10-2015 10:23PM

The actress who plays Frank's daughter is worse than useless.

No improvement this week at all, it's pretty crap.

Atlantic Dawn · 04-10-2015 10:35PM

Ad at the end for Series 1 on DVD, I seriously doubt there will be a Series 2.

ziggy · 04-10-2015 11:25PM

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Deathwish4 · 05-10-2015 01:00AM

It's trying, and failing, to be a little twin peaksy in that weird sense. Mentioned already but the actor playing the Mallon girl is simply not very good

It's entertaining and i'll see it through to the end so I guess it's got it's good points. Step forward Noel Blake

hatrickpatrick · 05-10-2015 02:29AM

There's one massive flaw in the raid plan, and someone else can correct me if I'm missing anything obvious here - the show room is about to go under. This is well known to the bank and ESPECIALLY to Desmond.

How the hell is Frank supposed to explain how he suddenly came up with several hundred thousand euros in cash to pay his debts? Like... Desmond will surely figure out immediately that Frank is the one who raided him? They already hate eachothers' guts and now Frank suddenly had massive piles of cash to throw around where previously he had nothing to bargain with?

How is he supposed to launder the cash in a town as small as this and with so little time to get it done?

Shifty Shellshock · 05-10-2015 02:53AM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

There's one massive flaw in the raid plan, and someone else can correct me if I'm missing anything obvious here - the show room is about to go under. This is well known to the bank and ESPECIALLY to Desmond.

How the hell is Frank supposed to explain how he suddenly came up with several hundred thousand euros in cash to pay his debts? Like... Desmond will surely figure out immediately that Frank is the one who raided him? They already hate eachothers' guts and now Frank suddenly had massive piles of cash to throw around where previously he had nothing to bargain with?

How is he supposed to launder the cash in a town as small as this and with so little time to get it done?

Ah he'll carry it in a sports bag back to his house and will say he sold a few cars. See, we can be screen writers on here, too.

hatrickpatrick · 05-10-2015 03:06AM

Mr E wrote: »

Guys, streaming sites are against the charter. Some recent posts around the topic have been deleted.

I really, really hope someone from RTE reads these threads or sees the number of streams already available and being shared on social media, and asks why. There'd be no need for it if the RTE player didn't have ridiculous restrictions and a total lack of cookie collecting - last week, I was shown a new ad literally every time I clicked to replay a minute of the show or to see a scene again having literally just watched it in the same player box. If you're going to include a seek bar, then set it up so that it remembers whether the user has already seen the ad and doesn't treat every click anywhere in the timeline as a "start from the beginning" click.

eejits...

Happyman42 · 05-10-2015 11:24AM

Agree about the actress playing the daughter...hopelessly miscast and what should be passionate dramatic scenes are wooden and dead.
Didn't see the faked suicide coming as I thought Aaron Monaghan's character had potential and would possibly be the hook for a second series...so will keep watching.

Hitchens · 05-10-2015 01:13PM

That actor with the lank reddish hair was born for villainous parts

hatrickpatrick · 05-10-2015 05:41PM

Just rewatching there, your man at the bonfire creeping on Corrina is giving me a serious Luke from L/H vibe (anyone remember him? The kettle-lacking, sister-stalking swan-murdering gobsh!te) and I can't help wondering how big a storyline that's going to become. Threatening to burn down someone's gaff for rejecting you is full psycho, could be an interesting side plot...

06-10-2015 12:44AM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Just rewatching there, your man at the bonfire creeping on Corrina is giving me a serious Luke from L/H vibe (anyone remember him? The kettle-lacking, sister-stalking swan-murdering gobsh!te) and I can't help wondering how big a storyline that's going to become. Threatening to burn down someone's gaff for rejecting you is full psycho, could be an interesting side plot...

Who??? Schnowwwy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RClOolWRv-8

Was the actor who played Git Loughman drunk rambling in the same scene?

And the casino owner played Martin the traveller character in the third episode of the very first series of love/hate. A very talented and underused actor.

BuilderPlumber · 06-10-2015 01:16AM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Just rewatching there, your man at the bonfire creeping on Corrina is giving me a serious Luke from L/H vibe (anyone remember him? The kettle-lacking, sister-stalking swan-murdering gobsh!te) and I can't help wondering how big a storyline that's going to become. Threatening to burn down someone's gaff for rejecting you is full psycho, could be an interesting side plot...

Just watched the second episode now. It was good and showed the main bad guy with the longish hair's vicious side. That guy you mention is very like Luke. Only probably nastier.

Recapping on Luke: he is first seen being loaded into a van by Fran and then Fran sets his dogs on him and Darren kills the dog and Luke then proceeds into a few weird acts like peeping through Stumpy's mother's place and breaking into Fran's, going to the toilet, eating stuff and then stealing his jumper. Fran later has a go at him after seeing the jumper. From there, he is used by Darren on jobs and forms a friendship with him. He is seen with some counseller discussing some past problems. Mary feels sorry for him and he gets a notion of her and she rejects him, leading him to kill the swan. He then steps up his stalking of Mary and Mary eventually catches him. Darren warns him off and he still does not stop, coming into the bedroom of her house when she is sleeping. Darren uses him in the killing of John Boy and Nidge then convinces Darren he needs to be clipped. He is lured into the Dublin mountains and he is I think the only character Nidge himself actually kills after he shoots him.

The Clean Break character is cut from the same cloth and I thought I saw the little girl having nightmares involving him too? He is a nasty piece of work and he could well be used to try and kill the boxer character.

06-10-2015 01:41AM

Liking this show so far. Hard to envisage it going beyond the four episodes but its pretty decent. Some super actors, Danny, Frank, Dessie (who is also excellent as Mr Selfridges adversary), and the main villain of the piece who appeared in Amber previously. Some terrific acting talent in this country. It lacks the extra nitty gritty of love/hate but it has its moments.

Im actually shocked that they couldnt find a part for Gareth Lombard (Scobie from Pure Mule) considering he is a born and bred Wexican.

06-10-2015 01:56AM

Dan Chipowski wrote: »

The actress who plays Frank's daughter is worse than useless.

No improvement this week at all, it's pretty crap.

Which daughter?

The little one who was kidnapped is a powerful little actress i think

Atlantic Dawn · 06-10-2015 01:58AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Liking this show so far. Hard to envisage it going beyond the four episodes but its pretty decent. Some super actors, Danny, Frank, Dessie (who is also excellent as Mr Selfridges adversary), and the main villain of the piece who appeared in Amber previously. Some terrific acting talent in this country. It lacks the extra nitty gritty of love/hate but it has its moments.

Im actually shocked that they couldnt find a part for Gareth Lombard (Scobie from Pure Mule) considering he is a born and bred Wexican.

It's built so wrong, it should have been purely from the Garda investigating the crime point of view if they wanted to make it a multiple series, there's nothing in it at all that could extend beyond 1 series.

06-10-2015 01:59AM

Actually Kelly Thornton who plays Franks 'eldest' daughter was the eldest of the little girls involved in the Tiger kidnapping storyline in Love/hate.

06-10-2015 02:02AM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

It's built so wrong, it should have been purely from the Garda investigating the crime point of view if they wanted to make it a multiple series, there's nothing in it at all that could extend beyond 1 series.

Perhaps its not the intention. Unless you could take one of the characters a whole new direction

Atlantic Dawn · 06-10-2015 02:04AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Perhaps its not the intention. Unless you could take one of the characters a whole new direction

It's a shame really because the camera work and general vibe is good but as a replacement for the cash cow that was Love/Hate it's a bloody disgrace.

06-10-2015 02:06AM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

It's a shame really because the camera work and general vibe is good but as a replacement for the cash cow that was Love/Hate it's a bloody disgrace.

Perhaps Carolan has something big planned and they got this guy to write 'an appetiser' of sorts to fill the gap?

Hitchens · 06-10-2015 08:53AM

Had to smile when Tommy 'The Ram' Dillon turned up as the Garda sergeant!

Basq · 06-10-2015 08:55AM

Dan Chipowski wrote: »

The actress who plays Frank's daughter is worse than useless.

THIS!!!!... THIS!!!!... THIS!!!!

Deleted User wrote: »

Which daughter?

Corrina.. if she was any more wooden, I could prop up my washing with her!

Watched the first episode and found it difficult to concentrate past the horrific acting.. the only actor bar Sean McGinley I recognise was Damien Moloney (Danny Dempsey) who was decent in the last 2 series of Being Human.

Really don't know if I'm bothered watching any more of them to be honest!

06-10-2015 12:31PM

Basq wrote: »

THIS!!!!... THIS!!!!... THIS!!!!

Corrina.. if she was any more wooden, I could prop up my washing with her!

Watched the first episode and found it difficult to concentrate past the horrific acting.. the only actor bar Sean McGinley I recognise was Damien Moloney (Danny Dempsey) who was decent in the last 2 series of Being Human.

Really don't know if I'm bothered any more of them to be honest!

I was hinting at the fact that frank fathered the little girl hence the resentment toward her from her adopted father the bank manager

johnpatrick81 · 06-10-2015 06:40PM

The 1st episode was an entertaining shoddy one. The 2nd was just shoddy. Terrible. Will find it hard to bother with episode 3. The pretty daughter is indeed abysmal. I think she has 5 different accents already.

brian_t · 07-10-2015 02:46PM

The third episode is starting at the slightly later time of 10pm on Sunday.

You won't have to choose between it and the end of the Ire v. Poland match on RTE 2.

Glebee · 07-10-2015 05:17PM

Overall i quite like this, nothing too texting for a Sunday night watch

dr.kenneth noisewater · 07-10-2015 05:30PM

Slightly better than Amber but thats not saying much!

rebeve · 07-10-2015 08:41PM

Think i`m going to give it a clean break .

BuilderPlumber · 07-10-2015 09:14PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Perhaps Carolan has something big planned and they got this guy to write 'an appetiser' of sorts to fill the gap?

Just wondering what does come after Clean Break? There is an 8-week slot up until December after the finale of Clean Break!! Could there be a secret Love/Hate afterall???!!!!

Clean Break - RTE.

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