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Young Offenders TV series (BBC3 / RTE)

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    #92
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Just finished episode 2. It’s a very juvenile, unfunny comedy. I’d say you have to be between 12 to 18 to get it. The wrestling scene was about 5 minutes too long too.


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    #93
    Utopia Parkway
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    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Just finished episode 2. It’s a very juvenile, unfunny comedy. I’d say you have to be between 12 to 18 to get it. The wrestling scene was about 5 minutes too long too.

    Of course it's juvenile. It's meant to be. It's literally a comedy about juveniles. So was The Inbetweeners.

    Also not sure you have to be a teenager to "get it". It's not too disimiliar to my own school days and they were a fair while ago.


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    #94
    Addle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭Addle


    I'm nearing 40 and I find it laugh out loud funny.
    Great quality production in every sense.


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    #95
    RocketRaccoon
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    Mid 30s here and it's the best Irish comedy in years.


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    #96
    weldoninhio
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    Utopia Parkway wrote: »
    Of course it's juvenile. It's meant to be. It's literally a comedy about juveniles. So was The Inbetweeners.

    Also not sure you have to be a teenager to "get it". It's not too disimiliar to my own school days and they were a fair while ago.

    The Inbeteeeners was actually funny though. This is dross. Just finished ep 3. God awful. It’s sad that the tv channel that gave us Only Fools, Open All Hours, The Office etc is reduced to showing this garbage.


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    #97
    Doge
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    Just saw episode 2 and realized the principles house is only a 2 minute walk from me!

    Its in Hawthorn Mews, Dublin Hill in case any Cork people are interested.


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    #98
    fin12
    Registered Users Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    Doge wrote: »
    Just saw episode 2 and realized the principles house is only a 2 minute walk from me!

    Its in Hawthorn Mews, Dublin Hill in case any Cork people are interested.

    I was watching with my dad and we were saying we thought they should have had the principle living in Montenotte. What area do the two lads live in then?


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    #99
    RocketRaccoon
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    weldoninhio wrote: »
    The Inbeteeeners was actually funny though. This is dross. Just finished ep 3. God awful. It’s sad that the tv channel that gave us Only Fools, Open All Hours, The Office etc is reduced to showing this garbage.

    How strange that you've now wasted 3+ hours your time on this movie&show that you are hating.

    How "edgy" of you to hate it and come here to tell us all about it.


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    #100
    Doge
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    fin12 wrote: »
    I was watching with my dad and we were saying we thought they should have had the principle living in Montenotte. What area do the two lads live in then?

    Ballinderry park in Mayfield i think or one of the estates up that way.


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    #101
    weldoninhio
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    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    How strange that you've now wasted 3+ hours your time on this movie&show that you are hating.

    How "edgy" of you to hate it and come here to tell us all about it.

    I thought the movie was decent. I’ve wasted just over an hour watching the series. Don’t understand how anyone finds the series funny.


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    #102
    MilesMorales1
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    weldoninhio wrote: »
    I thought the movie was decent. I’ve wasted just over an hour watching the series. Don’t understand how anyone finds the series funny.

    People find things amusing that you don't, if you can grasp such a concept.


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    #103
    alchemist33
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    weldoninhio wrote: »
    I thought the movie was decent. I’ve wasted just over an hour watching the series. Don’t understand how anyone finds the series funny.

    And I don't understand how you found The Office funny. That's humour for you; a personal, unpredictable thing.


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    #104
    weldoninhio
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    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    People find things amusing that you don't, if you can grasp such a concept.

    Yes, but this is hardly niche comedy. It’s lowest common demoninator trash.


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    #105
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Yes, but this is hardly niche comedy. It’s lowest common demoninator trash in my opinion.


    Fixed that for you. I don't like The Office US, Or Mrs Brown's Boy's, or Parks and Rec. Whereas I find this hilarious, I also love Impractical Jokers, The Thick of It, Extra's. Such is a sense of humour for you.


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    #106
    RocketRaccoon
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    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Yes, but this is hardly niche comedy. It’s lowest common demoninator trash.

    It is the exact same as the movie which you have said you enjoyed.


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    #107
    fin12
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    I get what weldoninhio is saying because so far I’m not finding the series as funny as the movie. I’ve watched the movie loads of times.


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    #108
    johnpatrick81
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    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    It is the exact same as the movie which you have said you enjoyed.

    It’s really not.

    I get we all have different tastes, but people are getting awfully precious and protective of a show where the comedic “highlights” in episode 2 were an aul wan flashing a cop, and a girl having snot issues.


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    #109
    weldoninhio
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    johnpatrick81 wrote: »
    It’s really not.

    I get we all have different tastes, but people are getting awfully precious and protective of a show where the comedic “highlights” in episode 2 were an aul wan flashing a cop, and a girl having snot issues.

    I think it’s a case of “It’s semi-Irish and the Brits like it” so it has to be hilarious.


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    #110
    david75
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    johnpatrick81 wrote: »
    It’s really not.

    I get we all have different tastes, but people are getting awfully precious and protective of a show where the comedic “highlights” in episode 2 were an aul wan flashing a cop, and a girl having snot issues.

    and other people didn’t like it yet still posting about it. If you didn’t like it, it’s not hurting you or your personal life. Move on.


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    #111
    johnpatrick81
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    david75 wrote: »
    and other people didn’t like it yet still posting about it. If you didn’t like it, it’s not hurting you or your personal life. Move on.

    People are making valid criticisms and being accused of being anti RTE.

    Move on yourself there captain thread boss.


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    #112
    frag420
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    johnpatrick81 wrote: »
    People are making valid criticisms and being accused of being anti RTE.

    Move on yourself there captain thread boss.

    Thought you bowed out of the debate...


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    #113
    RocketRaccoon
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    weldoninhio wrote: »
    I think it’s a case of “It’s semi-Irish and the Brits like it” so it has to be hilarious.

    And I think some people are seeing it as semi-irish and therefore they must slate it at every opportunity.

    I recall father Ted getting the same treatment.


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    #114
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    I don’t think anyone is being precious about anything. It’s a tv show some people find amusing, it’s not rocket science. It’s also better written than what some posters have reductively described it as, but humour is entirely subjective of course.


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    #115
    johnpatrick81
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    frag420 wrote: »
    Thought you bowed out of the debate...

    I bowed out of the debate with you on why it got renewed..... thanks for the reminder though.

    Such an angry thread for such a throwaway show...


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    #116
    johnpatrick81
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    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    I don’t think anyone is being precious about anything.

    Really?
    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    How strange that you've now wasted 3+ hours your time on this movie&show that you are hating.

    How "edgy" of you to hate it and come here to tell us all about it.
    murpho999 wrote: »
    Think it's just a lot of anti-RTE begrudgery.
    Rekop dog wrote: »
    You'll always get some who don't like it, probably the type who find Mrs Brown Boys funny.
    david75 wrote: »
    The film was gas and if you didn’t think so well then fine.( But you might be dead inside. )
    frag420 wrote: »
    Its being renewed as its the funniest show on terrestrial TV currently bar none!!


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    #117
    Kuva
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    jaysus lads, ffs


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    #118
    fin12
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    Is anyone going to go to the screening of the final episode? It’s on in the English Market.


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    #119
    Ash.J.Williams
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    johnpatrick81 wrote: »
    Yep, Hilary is decent.

    The other one, jaysus, unwatchable. Just overacts and curses. Sounds more Limerick than Cork, and comes across as a much bigger "knacker" than the 2 lads the father has a huge issue with. Abysmal!

    I'm no scorsese but I think that's what she's meant to be


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    #120
    johnpatrick81
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    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    I'm no scorsese but I think that's what she's meant to be

    She’s meant to overact within an inch of her life, and get the accent wrong?! :pac:

    Sure thing Martin.


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    Rekop dog wrote: »
    You'll always get some who don't like it, probably the type who find Mrs Brown Boys funny.

    The comic timing and subtleties in this are very impressive.


    Have to be honest, I'd put this in the same bracket as Mrs Browne. Predictable stereotype characters in situations that just write themselves and require little thought.

    I just finished the 2nd episode.

    The characters make no sense, everything is so obvious and the acting doesn't really help.

    The mother of the scumbag can't see any wrong in him, wants him to grow up to be decent, fair enough, but then turns a blind eye to the snotty handshake with the teacher.

    The Garda that hates the kid is in love with the mother ( :rolleyes: ).

    The teacher's two daughters are involved with the two worst scummers in the school, and their mother encourages it.

    I understand that you have to suspend belief a bit for TV shows and sitcoms to work. The Garda not being able to catch the lads whilst they get away with their bikes and he is flying over garden walls on his own, for example, or that seemingly every resident in their estate actively encourages them to be scummers.

    The main characters themselves show no redeeming features and make it impossible to like them.

    I find it really, really dreadful.

    Will agree with others who say the teacher's wife is woeful and completely takes you out of the 'experience' of watching the show altogether. When they show her, they may aswell show the set and the boom operator and lighting rig. Nothing she's done has looked natural at all and is like a primary school play.



    As an aside, I enjoyed the Inbetweeners, as I thought it was written relatively cleverly and, more importantly, the characters were consistent and made sense. I haven't seen Derry Girls. Truth be told I actually do find some of the Mrs Browne's skits funny, but so far Young Offenders hasn't raised a smile from me.

    Then again, whilst I loved Father Ted, Only Fools, Curb Your Enthusiasm, etc. I hate the Big Bang Theory and The IT Crowd for example (both of which seem to be really loved) so, to each their own as they say.

    I'll give Offenders another episode to give it a chance, and then call it a day if I still can't stand it. The film was good, though. Wonder is it the same writers? (I'm not sure?). Seems they're quite a bit away from each other in quality writing.


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