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Charlie (RTE1 Charlie Haughey Drama)

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    #542
    Skid X
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    Seriously, people need to get over their obsession with Love/Hate.

    This is a different programme. The actors are portraying different roles.


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    #543
    katydid
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    Skid X wrote: »
    Seriously, people need to get over their obsession with Love/Hate.

    This is a different programme. The actors are portraying different roles.
    I'm more and more glad I never saw Love Hate.


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    #544
    brooke 2
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    Skid X wrote: »
    Seriously, people need to get over their obsession with Love/Hate.

    This is a different programme. The actors are portraying different roles.

    Absolutely! This happens on British and US TV all the time - the same actors
    popping up in several different programmes. Acting is their job!!!

    If I see another post about who was in L/H, I think I will scream!! ;)


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    #545
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm really getting tired of RTE continually referring to people who have acted in Love Hate. It's a bit like those really annoying parents who keep talking about their own children. YAWN.
    And that's from someone who watched and enjoyed Love Hate.


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    #546
    Sheldons Brain
    Registered Users Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭Sheldons Brain


    BabysCoffee wrote: »
    Lots of flashing cameras - would that be realistic for the time?

    How do you think people took photos, this was 1980 not 1890!

    The Stardust thing was important politically, as it lead to the cancellation of the Ard Fheis and delayed the election timetable. Its representation in the film was a bit odd, as of course it was at night and the Taoiseach probably heard of it in a phone call, not in daylight in his office.

    Gillen does alright in this, so of these around him less so. All this talk of Love/Hate is ridiculous, of course irish actors appear in other productions, many of these were in Fair City, the Clinic etc.


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    #547
    CountyHurler
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    I'm not sure if it's just me getting used to Gillen as Haughey.. But this was a lot better on the second viewing last nite... Gillen's Haughey is certainly forced, but when you get used to him it makes the show more watchable..


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    #548
    mickdw
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    brooke 2 wrote: »
    Absolutely! This happens on British and US TV all the time - the same actors
    popping up in several different programmes. Acting is their job!!!

    If I see another post about who was in L/H, I think I will scream!! ;)

    Its all well and good seeing actors pop up in different roles. It is quite strange though when numerous scenes in this show are made up entirely of love / hate actors.


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    ezra_pound
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    mickdw wrote: »
    Its all well and good seeing actors pop up in different roles. It is quite strange though when numerous scenes in this show are made up entirely of love / hate actors.

    Really happy I never watched love/hate then. I don't have any love/hate issues with the show and really thought it was great.


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    #550
    Skid X
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    CountyHurler wrote: »
    I'm not sure if it's just me getting used to Gillen as Haughey.. But this was a lot better on the second viewing last nite... Gillen's Haughey is certainly forced, but when you get used to him it makes the show more watchable..

    Yeah, I also watched it again and I wasn't nearly as distracted by Gillen. Hopefully the rest of the series will be more watchable now that the viewers are more familiar with the actors' stylings.


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    #551
    JaseBelleVie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭JaseBelleVie


    Can't wait for this tonight!

    I've also had that f*cking "Arise and Follow" song stuck in my head all week. :o


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    #552
    katydid
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    JaseHeath wrote: »
    Can't wait for this tonight!

    I've also had that f*cking "Arise and Follow" song stuck in my head all week. :o

    I don't know if I'll bother watching the second half. I spent the first one trying to figure out who was who and what was going on, and gritting my teeth at the acting of Gillen. And the music drove me bonkers.

    But I probably will...


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    #553
    Walter Concrete
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    CountyHurler wrote: »
    I'm not sure if it's just me getting used to Gillen as Haughey.. But this was a lot better on the second viewing last nite... Gillen's Haughey is certainly forced, but when you get used to him it makes the show more watchable..

    This.I enjoyed the first episode but found it hard to get past Aiden Gillen elongating everrrry seeeecond word for dramatic effect. Something of the pantomine villain about him in this. Much like Littlefinger in GOT.

    He has a tendency to overact. Having said all that I'll certainly be watching later on so maybe I'm just a pedantic prick!


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    #554
    katydid
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    mickdw wrote: »
    Its all well and good seeing actors pop up in different roles. It is quite strange though when numerous scenes in this show are made up entirely of love / hate actors.

    Ireland is a small country. There's a limited pool of actors and they need all the work they can get. If Love/Hate hadn't been on so recently, people wouldn't be making such comparisons.

    I'm all the more happy I never saw L/H


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    #555
    Walter Concrete
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭Walter Concrete


    katydid wrote: »
    Ireland is a small country. There's a limited pool of actors and they need all the work they can get. If Love/Hate hadn't been on so recently, people wouldn't be making such comparisons.

    I'm all the more happy I never saw L/H


    Preach! We've a small pool of jobbing actors to draw from as it is, given our size. Who did people expect? Liam Neeson as Haughey? , Colm Meaney as Brian Lenihan? Ryan Colin Farrell as Bertie?


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    Walter Concrete
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭Walter Concrete


    katydid wrote: »
    Ireland is a small country. There's a limited pool of actors and they need all the work they can get. If Love/Hate hadn't been on so recently, people wouldn't be making such comparisons.

    I'm all the more happy I never saw L/H


    Preach! We've a small pool of jobbing actors to draw from as it is, given our size. Who did people expect? Liam Neeson as Haughey? , Colm Meaney as Brian Lenihan? Colin Farrell as Bertie?


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    #557
    [Deleted User]
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    Alan Cumming would have the makings of a great Bertie. He has that creepy little sneakiness about him as he showed in Circle of friends


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    BabysCoffee
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    Alan Cumming would have the makings of a great Bertie. He has that creepy little sneakiness about him as he showed in Circle of friends

    Could definitely see him as Bertie!


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    #559
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    Here we go.


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    #560
    sonofenoch
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    Elmo still living in the same flats.....handy coincidence :D


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    #561
    BabysCoffee
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    What's up with Jacinta's shop having no stock???!!


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    #562
    TheDoctor
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    Elmos a rat


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    #563
    Lapin
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    Who is Des ?


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    #564
    nxbyveromdwjpg
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    Is that the dentist from Love/Hate


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    #565
    BettePorter
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    des o malley isnt a great casting. 'doherty' however might as well be the man himself.


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    #566
    emanresu esrever
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    Lapin wrote: »
    Who is Des ?

    des o malley


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    #567
    take everything
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    Bertie! :D
    Woohoo


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    #568
    weadick
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    That music is fierce annoying


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    #569
    Un Croissant
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    This Patrick fella is dire.

    The guy from the insurance advert?


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    #570
    Lisha
    Registered Users Posts: 8,693 ✭✭✭Lisha


    Ok I'm thick
    What was that letter about ? And who's the father of what?


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    #571
    CountyHurler
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    Walter Concrete wrote: »
    He has a tendency to overact. Having said all that I'll certainly be watching later on so maybe I'm just a pedantic prick!

    What I'm finding now is that I can take any of the rest of them seriously!!!

    Nally, Doherty, Bertie, and some other bogger I havent identified... All look like they are straight out of Killinaskully..


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