Striking Out [RTÉ1]

thestar

It was good tonight. Typical boards with a negative response to everything

darkdubh

They nearly always have a token English character in RTE dramas, probably to try and sell it to a potential UK audience.

Ralf and Florian

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Sorry folks but this is Mrs BOD you are talking about. Drick. Dricko. Briano. The Drickmeister General. The Number 13 to end all Number 13.
BOD ffs !
So cut out the blasphemy now.
God, this country owes that man so much, and it seems many of you arent even fit to be display a minimum of respect to his wife. Shame on you. Shame on you all.
Mr. O'Driscoll, Amy was super. Great drama. Great acting. Loved it.

Hello Brian O Driscoll.

Bowlardo

Whats all this bollocks about international markets?

Mongfinder General

madmaggie wrote: »

Icsics wrote: »

Those star earrings Amy wore throughout are from her Newbridge range[/quote
I did wonder about that, and the pearl chain as well.

What? In which scene was she sporting a pearl necklace?

Harry Angstrom

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Hello Brian O Driscoll.

Nah, I think it's Ryle Nugent.

JaffaP

Absolute tripe from start to finish.

fits

I enjoyed it too! It's getting slated here though!!!

Hitchens

fits wrote: »

I enjoyed it too! It's getting slated here though!!!

It's sure to pick up a few IFTAs

Basq

Hitchens wrote: »

fits wrote: »

I enjoyed it too! It's getting slated here though!!!

It's sure to pick up a few IFTAs

Indeed, but a tricolour turd served on an RTÉ plate would pick up an IFTA.

philstar

Hitchens wrote: »

It's sure to pick up a few IFTAs

with all the stiff competition???

Hitchens

Thumbs up from the Indo

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/best-tv-in-ages-amy-hubermans-new-drama-striking-out-was-a-roaring-success-last-night-35335396.html

not the worst effort. will give it a chance.

Birdsong

Found it only ok. To me it seemed as if RTE had taken inspiration from some of the better legal drama, the Good wife, Silk, and someone mentioned Suits and pulled them all together. No sure that Tara /Amy Huberman is strong enough to pull the whole thing together, sixth is what is needed like in Silk. The main character was superb in that.

The actor playing Conor was very weak, couldn't feel sorry or any emotion for him.

Lady Chatterton

I want to like this series and hopefully it will pick up over the remaining three episodes. I wouldn't take the Indo review too seriously either, many of the positive tweets about the show came from friends of Amy and Brian's, which is understandable but hardly very objective.

Hippo

Yes it just about reached the level of 'ok'. Huberman is excellent but she's carrying the entire show, no-one else is anything other than a cardboard cut-out and the plot is bizarre.

Don't start me on the legal content -I know, there's no place for reality in this kind of drama but some of that was still quite unintentionally funny. Having said all that, I'll watch the next one, but mainly to do some more location-spotting.

Peregrine

I liked the shots of Dublin. You don't see that on TV often. Hard to imagine that people have a problem with a few nice views of Dublin being shown for once.

Anyway, some terrible characters in it. The Conor character was awful. Just awful. Meg and her 'tech skills' were a bit cringy. Amy wasn't too bad though.

I'll give it a chance but it probably won't be renewed.

Harry Angstrom

I can't understand RTE's fascination with posh Dublin dramas. Most of us can't relate to these characters, and what is it with their affected upper class English accents??
For me, the best two dramas that RTE have been involved with in recent times were Pure Mule and Love/Hate, which were a world removed from the lives of the one-dimensional characters in Striking Out.

Mike Guide 69

thestar wrote: »

It was good tonight. Typical boards with a negative response to everything

Lighten up BOD will ya???

ligerdub

I forgot to mention how cringeworthy the ad for this was.

Obligatory shot of main character in bed with her boyfriend, another walking on street crying, another wide angled shot of her walking in slow motion for some reason, and to top it off "this is my life, these are moooyyy chooooyyyyyces"

darkdubh

Hitchens wrote: »

Thumbs up from the Indo

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/best-tv-in-ages-amy-hubermans-new-drama-striking-out-was-a-roaring-success-last-night-35335396.html

The Indo has always been trying to push O Driscoll/Huberman as a Posh n Becks type celebrity couple. Not the most objective critics.

Ill give Amy her credit here, she wasnt too bad. She hadnt alot to work with in this absolute abortion of a series.

Abysmal writing. Can these so called writers be struck off the same way a doctor can? Because this was malpractice of the highest order. I am all for RTE or whoever trying out new things but I just dont know where to begin with this shíte. I knew the very second i seen the Indo's 'objective' view that this show was a 'hit' based on a few tweets from their cronies that i needed to approach this show with a skeptical outlook and sure enough i wasnt disappointed.

thestar

thestar wrote: »

It was good tonight. Typical boards with a negative response to everything Irish

Fixed your post

Fr Tod Umptious

Seriously, who has a hen night on a work night.

Radio5

I think Tara's (Amy Huberman's) parents might have potential to be more interesting characters than her to be honest. I'd give it another episode at least.

JoeA3

The Indo are determined to tell us all it was great. It "saved RTE's Christmas blushes" according to the front page headline :rolleyes:

ligerdub

JoeA3 wrote: »

The Indo are determined to tell us all it was great. It "saved RTE's Christmas blushes" according to the front page headline :rolleyes:

I saw that this morning, front page news no less, madness.

brian_t

I enjoyed it. Guess we'll have to see how it does in the ratings.

Fr Tod Umptious

ligerdub wrote: »

I saw that this morning, front page news no less, madness.

Jesus, the independent is such a rag.

darkdubh

Surprise surprise Louise O Neill is raving about it. Didn't she say the same about Can't Cope Won't Cope? If it stars one of her buddies and the main character has a vagina then it's thumbs up.


https://twitter.com/oneilllo/status/815685267336134656

ligerdub

I saw that. "I have to like this" tweet

WoolyJumper

Didn't think much of it to be honest. There was no real courtroom tension. Everything was too easily resolved. Characters didn't really go into depth either. Not a whole lot happened between Tara and the Fiancé. Didn't understand the mothers motivation behind keeping them together, and the argument they had towards the end wasn't really well written. Though I thought it was well acted by Amy.

It was also a little too similar to the good wife - right down to the sassy leather jacket wearing private investigator. There is no comparison between the quality though.

On a side note, the actor that played character involved in sex scandal was terrible. Fair City level bad.

Lady Chatterton

Newstalk's TV Review

TV Review: Derivative and dull, RTÉ's 'Striking Out' may as well be called 'The Grand Spouse'
The Amy Huberman-led legal drama doesn't have an original bone in its body, but plenty of boners to spare.

http://www.newstalk.com/TV-Review:-Derivative-and-dull-RTs-Striking-Out-may-as-well-be-called-The-Grand-Spouse

pinkypinky

I liked it fine - agree the tv celeb hadn't much depth though. Dublin is nicely filmed. I've never seen Amy Huberman in anything before and I thought she carried it well enough. Will definitely keep watching.

Ralf and Florian

pinkypinky wrote: »

I liked it fine - agree the tv celeb hadn't much depth though. Dublin is nicely filmed. I've never seen Amy Huberman in anything before and I thought she carried it well enough. Will definitely keep watching.

Does she get her kit off?

Hitchens

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Does she get her kit off?

Not until near the very end of the final episode

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Thought is was decent. Characters a bit unrelatable though, gaf in Ranelagh, fancy apartment in ballsbridge and the mothers gaf in Dalkey. I know she's a high powered lawyer but I thought that was laying it on a bit thick.

I know it's been discussed already but the luas on leeson Street was a bit of a jar. Just say the club is on Harcourt Street. Again, bit poor for an Irish show on an Irish channel aimed at an Irish audience.

Some of the dialogue was grim, particularly the fight with the mother at the end. But all in all watchable, though maybe I'll have the laptop on in the background for the next episode.

ligerdub

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Thought is was decent. Characters a bit unrelatable though, gaf in Ranelagh, fancy apartment in ballsbridge and the mothers gaf in Dalkey. I know she's a high powered lawyer but I thought that was laying it on a bit thick.

I know it's been discussed already but the luas on leeson Street was a bit of a jar. Just say the club is on Harcourt Street. Again, bit poor for an Irish show on an Irish channel aimed at an Irish audience.

Some of the dialogue was grim, particularly the fight with the mother at the end. But all in all watchable, though maybe I'll have the laptop on in the background for the next episode.

Shows produced in Ireland tend to make a lot of stupid oversights like that. In Can't Cope, Won't Cope they opened with a scene where they got a taxi from outside Flannery's to Coppers!

There is also an obsession to have the characters with higher end responsibilities and wealth.

jack presley

ligerdub wrote: »

Shows produced in Ireland tend to make a lot of stupid oversights like that. In Can't Cope, Won't Cope they opened with a scene where they got a taxi from outside Flannery's to Coppers!

Don't ever watch the Snapper then. He's on a rush to the Rotunda from the north side and he crosses the Liffey onto the south side beside the Customs House..!!!!

It's not an oversight, Geography doesn't matter in fictional programs.

ligerdub

jack presley wrote: »

Don't ever watch the Snapper then. He's on a rush to the Rotunda from the north side and he crosses the Liffey onto the south side beside the Customs House..!!!!

It's not an oversight, Geography doesn't matter in fictional programs.

Fiction based on reality. It's not difficult to avoid these errors.

ZeroThreat

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Sorry folks but this is Mrs BOD you are talking about. Drick. Dricko. Briano. The Drickmeister General. The Number 13 to end all Number 13.
BOD ffs !
So cut out the blasphemy now.
God, this country owes that man so much, and it seems many of you arent even fit to be display a minimum of respect to his wife. Shame on you. Shame on you all.
Mr. O'Driscoll, Amy was super. Great drama. Great acting. Loved it.

Is that you Ryle???

jack presley

ligerdub wrote: »

Fiction based on reality. It's not difficult to avoid these errors.

You must have been pulling your hair out with Love/Hate then. They were hopping all over the place in that. One minute they're on the Naas Road, the next they're somewhere miles away.

It's a drama, these things don't matter.

Edit - I doubt it's an Irish thing either. I bet if they stuck a GPS receiver on the bus in Speed it would have been all over the place.

It's just because we know the city that we notice it in programs set in Dublin.

Homesick Alien

I found it tough going. Sweeping shots of an illuminated Dublin do not distract from a terrible script and poor acting. And there's so much that doesn't make sense - Tara gathering her files and ditching her firm to set up in the back of a cafe, explained away as "she never signed a contract". You still can't do that. I was also confused by all the English accents.

Might give episode 2 a shot if there's nothing better on as I do genuinely like to support homegrown TV but it would want a dramatic increase in quality and ... drama if I'm to stick with it.

Capt Peacock

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Sorry folks but this is Mrs BOD you are talking about. Drick. Dricko. Briano. The Drickmeister General. The Number 13 to end all Number 13.
BOD ffs !
So cut out the blasphemy now.
God, this country owes that man so much, and it seems many of you arent even fit to be display a minimum of respect to his wife. Shame on you. Shame on you all.
Mr. O'Driscoll, Amy was super. Great drama. Great acting. Loved it.

Seriously...we've all gotta like this third rate show because AH's husband was a good rugby player or am I missing the joke?

ligerdub

ligerdub wrote: »

I haven't watched this so I've no idea if it's a steaming turd or a real gem.

However, why do RTE insist on making Amy Huberman a thing we're all rallying around? I'm sure she's lovely and all, but when I've seen her in comedy I haven't found her funny, when I've seen her in comedy dramas I've found her neither funny nor a good actress. Having seen her in drama I've not changed my mind. Who is backing her as a must for these projects?

Having seen the ad it smacks of the "she's a high powered executive in the city, lets follow her trials and tribulations". It's such a cliche at this stage. Much like the dirge that was Can't Cope, Won't Cope it looks like another RTE effort which is about 10-15 years too late to the party.

This times 10...Im sick of them and The Independent making her a big deal.. There was someone from the independent on Matt Cooper today saying how great she is and "everybody" loves her....Her husband again it seems to open more doors for her ....She was fairly bad as well in Cant Cope Wont Cope too

Thundercats Ho

Terrible dialogue. Clichéd plot. Poor acting.

I don't recall seeing AH in anything before. I thought she was OK in fairness.
Not very good but not as bad as some are saying.
Her new sidekick is the most pleasant and helpful scrote ever.

Missus thought it was good, so i'll end up watching it again i'd say.

siblers

Talon Raspy Bather wrote: »

This times 10...Im sick of them and The Independent making her a big deal.. There was someone from the independent on Matt Cooper today saying how great she is and "everybody" loves her....Her husband again it seems to open more doors for her ....She was fairly bad as well in Cant Cope Wont Cope too

I was listening to the Last Word with Matt Cooper, the second critic completley slated it and wasn't having any of the other one's nonsense.

The one who was praising the show, was using the viewing figures as a sign of the show's quality...which made no sense considering it's the pilot

Capt Peacock

Watched it yesterday and found it unintentionally hilarious "Tara Rafferty, solicitor!"
The plot was thin and the characters picked from central casting.
1 love rat partner, check.
2 gay best friend/scanger she just met
3 overbearing posh (English) mother
4 geeky, dragon tattoo type techie girl

Didnt see anything interesting that hasnt been seen loads of times before and the moaning and groaning noises on the sex tape were the funniest thing ive ever heard on rte.

The Talking Bread

It is like they looked at every single legal drama "Suits", "The Good Wife", "Better Call Saul" and put them in a blender but added some RTE into the ingrediants. There is no originality, that is the problem. And that isn't even going into the dialogue. The writing seems akin to an "edgy" Cathy Kelly novel.

The Talking Bread

"The World"............. seriously!!! That's the name of a paper you would see in bloody Superman or Sponge bob Squarepants! !!!!! This is a show I will have to watch to hate! I work as a trainee solicitor so it makes it even more cringe worthy and cliché driven!!