TV Series

[Tommy.]

Colin Farrel was brilliant in it.

The book is excellent too.

Literally editing my comment to mention Farrell whilst you were replying mate He really is disturbingly brilliant in it.

Haven't read the book, think I'll have to dig it out.

 

[COYBL25]

Literally editing my comment to mention Farrell whilst you were replying mate He really is disturbingly brilliant in it.

Haven't read the book, think I'll have to dig it out.

It`s a great read mate, if anything more brutal than the tv series.

Another book in a similar vein, that was made into a tv series, is The Terror, which is also a great read too. ( if you haven`t seen it )

They tv series was slightly tainted, by changing some of the key elements of the book.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

* Bows *

 

[Tommy.]

It`s a great read mate, if anything more brutal than the tv series.

Another book in a similar vein, that was made into a tv series, is The Terror, which is also a great read too. ( if you haven`t seen it )

They tv series was slightly tainted, by changing some of the key elements of the book.

Yep, seen it mate, enjoyable fare albeit not to the same level as North Water for me.

Appreciate the heads up though, I rarely disagree with your opinions on here.

 

[COYBL25]

Yep, seen it mate, enjoyable fare albeit not to the same level as North Water for me.

Appreciate the heads up though, I rarely disagree with your opinions on here.

The Terror is a better written book ( imo ), but the North Water is a better adaptation of the book ( again imo )

The thing with the TV series of The Terror, is that I have no idea why they changed it from the book, as the book was pretty much perfect and didn`t need anything changing for the tv series.

 

[cronullasharks]

Gangs of London season 3 starts next week

Undercover cop-turned-gangster Elliot is back and he's on top!

www.cosmopolitan.com

Season 1 was enoyable, Season 2 was an utter farce.

Not much hope for S3, but lets see.

I don't think I got through the first episode of s2

 

[Blue peter]

Started watching it today, fantastic bit of tv, completed ep2 and has been said it is difficult subject matter, but I can’t get that final scene in ep2 which went from outside the school to Stephen Graham getting out of his van…..absolutely amazing.

Just finished Adolescence. An absolute powerhouse of a tv show. All amazing performances but the young kid who played Jamie, particularly in episode 3 was unreal with that performance.

My two lads are 25 and 17 but the show really brought home how we never really had the correct, proportionate parental controls and guidelines in place for them, and it’s only for pure luck, that they have both turned out decent people. The show will stay with me for sometime I imagine.

 

[Abertonian]

Just finished Adolescence. An absolute powerhouse of a tv show. All amazing performances but the young kid who played Jamie, particularly in episode 3 was unreal with that performance.

My two lads are 25 and 17 but the show really brought home how we never really had the correct, proportionate parental controls and guidelines in place for them, and it’s only for pure luck, that they have both turned out decent people. The show will stay with me for sometime I imagine.

We watched it all tonight. As you said amazing performances all round and one that will stay in my thoughts for a while.

We don't have kids but left with a feeling of what a world for people to grow up in and how hard it must be to parent in it.

 

[Charro]

Cringeing at the thought of this one.



No doubt it'll be full of Kopites...despite the title.

If it’s anything like Kin then it will be more than worth a watch.

 

[davek]

If it’s anything like Kin then it will be more than worth a watch.

You can rest assured that if it's set in Liverpool and it's a gnagster film it'll be toe curling.

Kin it wont be.

 

[Charro]

You can rest assured that if it's set in Liverpool and it's a gnagster film it'll be toe curling.

Kin it wont be.

The Martin Freeman one was good, and he was a blue in it which helps.

I trust with the people involved this will at least be watchable.

 

[davek]

The Martin Freeman one was good, and he was a blue in it which helps.

I trust with the people involved this will at least be watchable.

I found that second series embarrassing.

Lapsing into cliche with plazzy gansgsters who have 'idiosyncrasies' that make them rise above being...well...the scum they actually are in real life.

 

[Charro]

I found that second series embarrassing.

Lapsing into cliche with plazzy gansgsters who have 'idiosyncrasies' that make them rise above being...well...the scum they actually are in real life.

It did completely lose the plot in the second season which was a shame.

 

[davek]

It did completely lose the plot in the second season which was a shame.

Coppers fighting and effing and blinding in a church.

Pure Jimmy McGovern tripe.

 

[LostLegend]

Oh… oh no…

I’m binned it off after the second season as they were taking far too many liberties with the story from the books. Cavill was essentially keeping it afloat himself at that point.
Hemsworth is the most awfully generic casting they could have gotten to replace him with his bland ‘generic hero voice #3’

Can’t see this getting another series after this given the reaction.