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Taken Down [RTE]

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  • #652
    rogber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭rogber


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/110261332#Comment_110261332

    The RTE heads must have been reading boards back in 2019 as whaddya know, two years later Kin hits our screens.

    For reasons I won't go into here, just watched Taken Down this week. About a month after I watched Kin series 1. Apart from the fact Kin has a bigger budget, neither show was much better or worse than the other. Both pretty poor but watchable. And reading both threads, it strikes me Love/Hate is constantly held up as the holy grail of Irish TV series, you'd think it was Sopranos or The Wire or something.

    I thought Taken Down took an interesting topic but was too unsure did it want to be a straight up cop show or a deeper drama and ended up doing neither particularly well (characters like Isaiah were central in episodes 1&2, then disappears completely in 3&4, only to make a comeback in number 5).

    And characters generally too much in the good or evil camp to be really interesting. Benjamin and Ger absolutely vile (although well played). Flashbacks a bit pointless at the end.



  • #653
    lumphammer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 924 ✭✭✭lumphammer2


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118548010#Comment_118548010

    Kin is worth 1000000 Taken Downs ... there is a reason why Kin has at least 4 seasons and Taken Down only got one ... The former is good and enjoyable ... the same goes for Love/Hate .... I have not watched those 2 shows you mention but know Breaking Bad, Peaky Blinders and Gangs of London .... and yes Kin and Love/Hate do very well as Irish equivalents and can hold their head up as equals to them in their own right .. there I said it ... as Irish based dramas ...

    I agree 100% with what you say about Taken Down ... that was watchable but I found it poor ... the middle episodes totally pointless and a lot of the characters esp the Gardai silly .... I think the flashbacks were a kind of Midsomer Murders ripoff ...



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