Young Offenders TV series (BBC3 / RTE)

Yester

After all I really love you...

david75

david75 wrote:

Well I mean you’re a gamer, gamers are not known for any kind of social graces or courtesy (look at the lead comments in each of your posts here) socialising isn’t really gamers thing, unless it’s screaming down a head mic at people wishing them death, girls (or lads ) generally don’t come into gamer social realm on any tangible sense, (can’t blame you. They’re all trouble) and finally 14k posts on boards most of which seem to be complaining and arguing generally suggests you’re far removed from the 17 year old lad experience in any real social sense and comedy in all its forms eludes you, unless it’s you creating it in which case it’s good according to you.) so it’s understandable this series didn’t reach you

Wow, what an obnoxious ass you are. You really think a lot of yourself, out of curiosity as you were stalking me did you notice that very few of my overall posts are in games related threads but mainly on the film forum. I think that most posters on here would have a generally positive opinion of me, but hey its clear that the hour you just spent trolling through my posts has given you a real insight into me. If you actually read my posts on games you'd see that I never play online and don't even own a mic and as for my experience with girls , well my wife must not really be sitting across from me as after all, any one who plays games must be male and single.

But hey, don't let facts get in the way of your pathetic attempt at a character assassination. It's clear that you can't back up your points or even offer any real analysis of the show or rebuttal to any opinion that doesn't agree with yours, without insulting people. Maybe I could take a leaf out of your book and say that adults who worship Star Wars like you do are generally pimply, unemployed sad sacks who sit in their parents house all day crying about how much the Princess means to them. But that's not fair, as I realise that all types of people enjoy it and that the whole point of art is that people take different things from it. I don't go into an experience with preformed opinions of it or the people it's aimed at, I just let the art speak for itself and in this case I found The Young Offenders the TV show to not be very good.

I'm just watching A Separation and really loving it but I must be lying to myself as I'm far removed from the experience of getting a divorce Tehran. Obviously, the only way to enjoy art if you can directly relate to it. I take that you're very close to the experiences of the character in Star Wars, as from what you've posted you have to be to enjoy something.

gifted

Would ye two take yere domestic somewhere else please.....

Some people like it...some people don't like it....get over it and stop trying to out do each other........please

david75

Enjoy your pizza. Or is it curry night?

Yester

After all that we've been through

Ash.J.Williams

Deleted User wrote: »

As someone who found the film to be very poor I had no interest in the TV show but due to being stuck in a hotel two weeks in a week I ended up watching both episode 5 and 6 of the show and was left baffled by the acclaim being heaped on the show online.

There's nothing inherently bad about it, it's just so generic and bland that it ends up being nothing more than meh, the kind of cheap filler that you have on in the background when you are doing something else. It's like something that the BBC would have thrown out on a Thursday night in the mid 90s, familiar, unoffensive fare in which nothing of note happens as the writers attempt to mine comedy from swearing and lowest common denominator humour. The last episode, in particular, felt like something someone who thinks a lot of themselves wrote, the whole maybe if someone loved him he'd be a good person scene just didn't work and felt like they were trying to ape the Dramedy feel of M.A.S.H. only without the wit or intelligence.

So much of it episodes I was were just cringeworthy, the singing on the bus was plain awful and like something you'd find in a not very goods kids show.

As for people feeling sorry for the Frank and Walters and all the complaining about Spotify, well if they were in any way good businessmen they would have a contract that resulted in them being paid part of the licensing fee that the BBC and RTE paid to use the song. 40 thousand or so streams on Spotify is nothing when you consider that in 2015 there were nearly 1 billion streams each day so I doubt that the Frank and Walters sudden uptake even registered on anyone but their own radar. If they had any sense and wanted to cash in then they'd organise a gig in Cork or try and be the face of some product rather than complaining on twitter.

it's a simple case of "it's not your thing"

Ash.J.Williams

Ash.J.Williams wrote:

it's a simple case of "it's not your thing"

100%, just don't think that something not being your thing makes your opinion invalid.

bogmanfan

I loved the first hour of the movie but felt it went downhill fast in the final third. Sadly the decline seems to have accelerated further since then and I thought the series was very poor. It's a shame because the movie had some genuinely brilliant moments and performances.

paulieeye

bogmanfan wrote: »

I loved the first hour of the movie but felt it went downhill fast in the final third. Sadly the decline seems to have accelerated further since then and I thought the series was very poor. It's a shame because the movie had some genuinely brilliant moments and performances.

You must be a gamer

johnpatrick81

[Deleted User] wrote: »

100%, just don't think that something not being your thing makes your opinion invalid.

Don’t worry, you’re not the first to get told off for sharing your very valid opinion in here. Good work in showing a certain someone in their true light though :pac:

#gamersRrealPpl2

Fr Tod Umptious

Yester wrote: »

After all I really love you...

Heard it twice on the radio in the last few days, and I hardly ever listen to the radio.

roundymac

Deleted User wrote: »

As someone who found the film to be very poor I had no interest in the TV show but due to being stuck in a hotel two weeks in a week I ended up watching both episode 5 and 6 of the show and was left baffled by the acclaim being heaped on the show online.

There's nothing inherently bad about it, it's just so generic and bland that it ends up being nothing more than meh, the kind of cheap filler that you have on in the background when you are doing something else. It's like something that the BBC would have thrown out on a Thursday night in the mid 90s, familiar, unoffensive fare in which nothing of note happens as the writers attempt to mine comedy from swearing and lowest common denominator humour. The last episode, in particular, felt like something someone who thinks a lot of themselves wrote, the whole maybe if someone loved him he'd be a good person scene just didn't work and felt like they were trying to ape the Dramedy feel of M.A.S.H. only without the wit or intelligence.

So much of it episodes I was were just cringeworthy, the singing on the bus was plain awful and like something you'd find in a not very goods kids show.

As for people feeling sorry for the Frank and Walters and all the complaining about Spotify, well if they were in any way good businessmen they would have a contract that resulted in them being paid part of the licensing fee that the BBC and RTE paid to use the song. 40 thousand or so streams on Spotify is nothing when you consider that in 2015 there were nearly 1 billion streams each day so I doubt that the Frank and Walters sudden uptake even registered on anyone but their own radar. If they had any sense and wanted to cash in then they'd organise a gig in Cork or try and be the face of some product rather than complaining on twitter.

Better than the ****e that RTE produce, like Fair City etc.

alchemist33

Is that Billy Murphy in the road safety ad, wearing a yellow hard hat?

JP Liz V1

alchemist33 wrote: »

Is that Billy Murphy in the road safety ad, wearing a yellow hard hat?

Yes it is

johnpatrick81

alchemist33 wrote: »

Is that Billy Murphy in the road safety ad, wearing a yellow hard hat?

As if he was playing the exact same character! I actually laughed! Such bad casting

pxdf9i5cmoavkz

Can someone give me guidance of what this show is about please? I'm wondering if I'm being unfair and/or jumping to conclusions.

Whenever I see some clips all I see is it glorifying anti-social behaviour which I fundamentally disagree with. Ireland has enough delinquents, we shouldn't be encouraging more.

Am I looking at this all wrong? Is this a coming of age story?

alchemist33

Saul Angry Easel wrote: »

Can someone give me guidance of what this show is about please? I'm wondering if I'm being unfair and/or jumping to conclusions.

Whenever I see some clips all I see is it glorying anti-social behaviour which I fundamentally disagree with. Ireland has enough delinquents, we shouldn't be encouraging more.

Am I looking at this all wrong? Is this a coming of age story?

That's what the trailer looked like and it did put me off, but fortunately I gave it a go anyway. There's a bit of that but they do a good job of making the lads sympathetic characters while giving proper laughs.

alchemist33

alchemist33 wrote: »

Is that Billy Murphy in the road safety ad, wearing a yellow hard hat?

Did RTE dig that out to milk it with Mr Murphys dramatically raised profile? Or is it a new ad?

Billy Murphy bus scene legend.

frag420

And those that dont like it are wrong...right!?:D

gifted wrote: »

Would ye two take yere domestic somewhere else please.....

Some people like it...some people don't like it....get over it and stop trying to out do each other........please

fin12

The guy who plays Billie Murphy is in a play called wet paint in the Everyman palace cork all this week. He wrote the play as well. Just wondering has anyone gone to see it?

griffin100

Had never seen a single scene of the TV show or the movie but RTE showed all episodes over 5 nights last week so I recorded them all and ended up watching them in one go with the wife on Saturday night. Have to say we both really enjoyed it. Very funny in parts and surprisingly poignant at times. Reminded me of Channel 4's Shameless in some scenes. Better than a lot of the dross on TV at the minute.

AndrewJRenko

fin12 wrote: »

The guy who plays Billie Murphy is in a play called wet paint in the Everyman palace cork all this week. He wrote the play as well. Just wondering has anyone gone to see it?

Are you sure it's really him? It could be just some bloke in a mask that looks like him?

Lisha

...........That really really looks like him

brian_t

There is a Christmas special coming.

It's on BBC One on Sunday December 23rd at 11:15pm.

Also on RTE but I'm not sure when.

brian_t

Christmas special is on RTE1 on Christmas Day at 10.35pm
and
on RTE2 on New Years Eve at 11.40pm

Basq

Pretty sure it'll be available on BBC 3 this weekend..

EDIT: 14th December indicated here..

lertsnim

Not the funniest episode I've seen. It has its moments.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

lertsnim wrote: »

Not the funniest episode I've seen. It has its moments.

Agree with this, it wasn't as strong as any of the first season episodes, but good to catch up with all the characters anyway and there were a few decent laughs.

The Crowman

The two main lads must be a bit ing in the tooth to pass for teenagers now.

Skerries

it worked for The Inbetweeners and sure look at those american shows where they have people in their 30's playing teens

https://www.clipd.com/stories/14121/17-30yearold-actors-who-played-high-schoolers/