Clean Break - RTE.

BuilderPlumber · 07-10-2015 09:24PM

dr.kenneth noisewater wrote: »

Slightly better than Amber but thats not saying much!

I think Clean Break will really prove itself in the last 2 episodes. Going by the first series of Love/Hate, the first 2 episodes were exactly of the type the first 2 episodes of Clean Break were (building up suspense) and then the 3rd and 4th episodes upped the pace and were action packed. The ingredients are there in Clean Break to do the same I am glad to report.

I liked Amber. The inconclusive climax was all too realistic actually.

dr.kenneth noisewater · 08-10-2015 09:02AM

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

I think Clean Break will really prove itself in the last 2 episodes. Going by the first series of Love/Hate, the first 2 episodes were exactly of the type the first 2 episodes of Clean Break were (building up suspense) and then the 3rd and 4th episodes upped the pace and were action packed. The ingredients are there in Clean Break to do the same I am glad to report.

I liked Amber. The inconclusive climax was all too realistic actually.

Storyline isn't actually a bad premise but the acting is terrible and some of the dialogue is awful. Amber was a potentially good story but had the same issues

Atlantic Dawn · 08-10-2015 10:08AM

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

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???!!!!

More chance of Shergar running in next years Grand National

Crazy Christ · 10-10-2015 11:27PM

The bank manager looks like a child who put on his father's clothes.

hatrickpatrick · 12-10-2015 02:23AM

Where's the trailer for next week? Screw what I said earlier, that was too much of a cliffhanger for me

Shifty Shellshock · 12-10-2015 03:06AM

Great episode tonight, building up nicely. Loving the brooding cinematography and cast. I seem to relate to a lot of hidden messages in this, unlike what Dublin gangsters get up to in that other show.

Galwayguy35 · 12-10-2015 04:44PM

Thought it was dragging a bit last night but the final few minutes made up for it!

I like Danny, he seems to be basically a good guy who ends up in bad situations.

dirkmeister · 12-10-2015 11:17PM

That final scene was EXTREMELY hard viewing.

BuilderPlumber · 12-10-2015 11:41PM

Will watch now. Looking forward to this and next weeks.

BuilderPlumber · 13-10-2015 01:13AM

Good episode. All involved seem to be very closely related in their personal and business lives. The Snowy character is very deranged and will come to a sticky end. We saw little of the guy from Amber with the long hair who hung the guy last week. Danny and Frank will probably get out of this alive and there will be a twist with the bank manager and his real agenda.

PTH2009 · 13-10-2015 06:06PM

dirkmeister wrote: »

That final scene was EXTREMELY hard viewing.

Yeah was quite hard. I would of thought rte would have some sense and not show that scene with what happened in carrickmines at the weekend.

It's a show in which the acting is below par but the story is good

Lollipop95 · 18-10-2015 09:50PM

Final episode on now..anyone watching? Didn't watch after first ep cause I didn't think it was much good. But it seems compelling viewing so far

Shifty Shellshock · 18-10-2015 10:05PM

Shady bank manager!

Jane98 · 18-10-2015 10:33PM

Wish I'd never started watching. What a load of sh**e!!!

Redriddick · 18-10-2015 10:35PM

Well there's 4 hours of my life I'll never get back!!!

20/20 · 18-10-2015 10:37PM

I also wish i never started watching. Rubbish.

Shifty Shellshock · 18-10-2015 10:39PM

Was hoping the young one was gonna clobber him and knock him out right at the end or something. Bit of an unsatisfied ending.

vicwatson · 18-10-2015 10:39PM

All for a bleedin stamp ?

Redriddick · 18-10-2015 10:41PM

Jane98 wrote:

Wish I'd never started watching. What a load of sh**e!!!

Clean break 2.When jenny uses the stamps on her letters to santa!!

Ted_YNWA · 18-10-2015 10:41PM

Not often you say, I hope they don't make another series.

Had the makings of a decent starting storyline, but had to rush to tie up any loose ends in last 5 minutes.

prodsc · 18-10-2015 10:42PM

Can't wait for Season 2!

hatrickpatrick · 19-10-2015 03:01AM

Enjoyed the show, just really really wanted Rane to get his comeuppance after we found out that he'd been orchestrating a lot of what had happened.

In that sense I guess it was a little too real-life for me. There's no reason fictional corrupt bankers have to get away with everything just because that's how it tends to happen for real

JimboJones99 · 19-10-2015 09:12AM

Not a fantastic ending but it is set up nicely for a second series and based on the anti-climatic ending I assume they already knew it would be renewed.

Happyman42 · 19-10-2015 09:30AM

There was tremendous potential here, but it was all let down by curious casting decisions and characterization.
Bank manager was just all wrong, the ham fisted attempt to make him appear normal or ordinary was wrong and didn't work. The obsessive use of the anorak is a tired old cliche. It was as if there was a big floating arrow over him every time he was on screen saying 'this guy is sinister and probably guilty'

Frank's daughter just couldn't act and let down the dramatic tensions.

I enjoyed parts of it but now that the core character of any new series has been identified not sure I am interested in him enough to continue watching.

Deathwish4 · 19-10-2015 12:54PM

RIP Noel Blake. The one interesting character (and decent actor) in the series and they bludgeon him to death. :mad:

Thought the series had some potential, but the sub-standard acting allied with a pretty awful final episode left me feeling like it was a waste of time overall.

Checkmate19 · 19-10-2015 01:03PM

Started off quite good but got worse as it went along. Felt the ending was rushed. Some of the casting was pretty poor. Don't think i'd watch a second one. The bloke who got done in at the end was very good in it.

I think it also tried to put to many different sub plots into it as well. The blokes daughter was very poor. Anyway had potential but i overall it was pretty poor.

Mr. Guappa · 19-10-2015 02:00PM

There was the bones of a decent series here but for whatever reason there was no tension or drama to anything that happened.

PTH2009 · 19-10-2015 02:37PM

Still lost at the ending ???

So rane planned the tiger kidnapping ??

Kind of wish snowy got a beating by the burned kids family and why does rane hate him

Personally if I saw a kid getting burnt it would be in my mind the whole time but Darren Dempsey seemed unfazed by it

Bar the guy with the long hair, the boxing coach and Darren the acting was terrible

Love/hate crossover for season 2 ??.

Crazy Christ · 19-10-2015 06:09PM

So rane planned the tiger kidnapping

I only saw bits and pieces of a couple of episodes, but I thought that this was known from early on? Because if it wasn't supposed to be, then that's really pathetic, because it's like they made a big effort to flag it, and it's hilarious if that wasn't their intention.

Again, it's laughable if he is supposed to be some fearsome sociopath, with the big wimpy head on him. He was a terrible actor, some of his facial expressions when he was trying to convey emotion were worse than Nicolas Cage in the Wicker Man. That little backstory about him torturing the frog was cringeworthy. He was even worse than the teenage girl. Her acting when she first found her boyfriend's hideout was some of the worst I've seen.

They shouldn't have killed off that criminal guy, he's like an Irish version of David Bradley.

alan partridge aha · 19-10-2015 06:16PM

Enjoyed it and looking forward to the next series

Clean Break - RTE.

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