Kin - RTE & AMC

Slydice · 04-10-2021 11:49pm

4: Show feels like it's trudging along. Maybe next episode

will have something .. like maybe the lads getting into the thick of things to get info on Eamons stash

Feels like the show is leaning heavy on Clare Dunnes performance of Amanda.

It's still early days but nothing feels like it's sticking yet. They might be rushing it a bit.

Good performance from Hinds for the small amount he was in it. He really does make a great Caesar!

trashcan · 05-10-2021 12:14am

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As someone above said, the cast can only work with the material they are given.Look at Aidan Gillens performance in the Wire, a properly written show. I haven’t made it past the first episode of this. Don’t feel compelled to catch up either. Just didn’t feel credible to me at all.

05-10-2021 1:26am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117974214#Comment_117974214

Thats a birth mark as she seems to have it offscreen too.

JP Liz V1 · 05-10-2021 2:40am

Amanda so wants to jump Mikey's bones again, did she kill Anna's mother in a jealous rage blaming Mikey or letting him take the blame, he was out of it on drugs

What age is Jamie, Anna and the other son?

Loughc · 05-10-2021 9:31am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117975892#Comment_117975892

This x 1000, I love the whole I'm only watching it as there's nothing else on..... literally thousands of other tv shows to select from on streaming services, players, tv providers, etc.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117975930#Comment_117975930

If we do a shot for each one of those terms mentioned on the thread you'd be dead haha

greenspurs · 05-10-2021 10:26am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117978236#Comment_117978236

Are people not allowed dislike/hate something , but still watch, and then comment on it....

I think it is a very poor series so far, but im still watching it cos i just wanna see how bad it stays.

That is allowed , isnt it ?

Did you smash it · 05-10-2021 10:31am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117978446#Comment_117978446

I don’t watch series for this reason but each to their own. I am more once there is a bad series in a previously good drama I’ll likely quit it.

Loughc · 05-10-2021 10:51am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117978446#Comment_117978446

You hate a show but you want to stay with it to see how bad it stays. Yeah ok. 🙄🙄

Lifes too short to watch something you hate and then spend time discussing how much you hate it 😂

greenspurs · 05-10-2021 10:57am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117978536#Comment_117978536

Personally, i have never used the word HATE to describe it..

Slow, pile of steaming shyte - yes.

Hate it - no.

Seathrun66 · 05-10-2021 12:02pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117977209#Comment_117977209

Never said that. Have never even mentioned him.

Elmo · 05-10-2021 12:22pm

So I don't get why Micheal would have had such a loving relationship with his daughter as a child, if he kill her mother in a crazed drug induced rage. I don't know why I should feel sorry for him, or why he has been let out of prison. His daughter can forgive him, but to want to regain that relationship I don't think that is a realistic possibility. And this is where his story lets him down as a character.

Also walking along with 2 liter bottle of Cider??? and perhaps she is a drinker, but we all know at that age you'd be wasted after the amount she's supposed to have drank. And the amount of times you'd be going for a pee.

With that said she did a fair job but ultimately I don't see her character going much further. Killed in the crossfire?

Seathrun66 · 05-10-2021 12:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117978446#Comment_117978446

"I think it is a very poor series so far, but im stiill watching it cos I just wanna see how bad it stays"

If only I had your free time. If only......

greenspurs · 05-10-2021 12:42pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117978868#Comment_117978868

Its 1hr a week ?????

Are people really that busy ????

realdanbreen · 05-10-2021 1:17pm

It's like Fair City but with fewer scary characters, oh and no Spar shop!

J.P.1994 · 05-10-2021 1:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117978868#Comment_117978868

Yeah that's what I do all the time - i pick a show I hate, watch it week in week out, just so i can moan about it online - perfectly normal behaviour 🤦‍♂️

Clareman · 05-10-2021 1:42pm

I don't get the "hate" thing, it's an Irish show that has a great cast and a bit of a storyline, it doesn't set the world on fire and I won't go out of my way to watch it but I'll have it on while I'm doing other stuff. I binged the first 3 episodes and it was a grand watch but there isn't a whole lot to keep you going but there is a few "inaccuracies" that are annoying but I'll keep watching it.

chicorytip · 05-10-2021 1:44pm

Gillen gets a bad rap but his performance here is, well, convincing, let's say. His character is clearly based on "The Monk", Gerard Hutch, a clever, low key type of criminal who is successful at what he does and enjoys the spoils of that success. Ultimately, he is doomed to lose everything in a war of attrition with both his criminal enemies and the Gardai.

greenspurs · 05-10-2021 1:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117979211#Comment_117979211

I....DID.....NOT...SAY....I....HATE...IT..... 🙄

But im not the one offended by people that like/love it , or that dont have the same opinion as me.

J.P.1994 · 05-10-2021 2:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117979241#Comment_117979241

I get it buddy ..... trolls got to eat!!

greenspurs · 05-10-2021 2:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117979436#Comment_117979436

Excuse me?

Im a troll ?? 🤭 You do understand how online discussion forums work yeh ?

(its not if someone disagrees with you, you call them names - Thats playground mentality)

Seathrun66 · 05-10-2021 2:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117978947#Comment_117978947

"Are people really that busy????"

To watch stuff they don't like. Absolutely. YES.

greenspurs · 05-10-2021 2:38pm

Are yee two involved in the show? You seem to take the criticism to heart .....

Anyway, maybe stop derailing the discussion on how Slooooooooooooooooow the shooooooooooooooow is .........

Joe Don Dante · 05-10-2021 2:38pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117974723#Comment_117974723

so have you done many hits yourself ?

archfi · 05-10-2021 2:43pm

The ongoing whining about criticism is a better plotline and acting (up) than what's on the screen.

J.P.1994 · 05-10-2021 2:54pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117979576#Comment_117979576

Said it in loads of my posts, i completely understand people not liking KIN - or any other show. Where it gets a little suspect for me, is posters who were on here in the first week saying things like they couldn't watch past twenty minutes it was so shite, and still they're popping up every week like clockwork to slag it off. And btw that's not a "discussion" (which I'm all for), that's people with an axe to grind.

And what's really hilarious is the very ones like you who are laying into the show hardest, are then clutching their pearls and getting all indignant ("that's playground mentality"!!!) when people argue back.

You want to spend an hour of your week watching a tv show you don't like so you come on here and slag it off - knock yourself out buddy. And likewise, if I have something to say about your comments, I will.

Seathrun66 · 05-10-2021 3:04pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117979644#Comment_117979644

''Slow'' - that's ten Bingo points.

I've seen another recent "Fair City" reference too.

You guys need to expand your vocabulary. I'll courier a Thesaurus to the winner of this week's Kin Bingo.

pixelburp · 05-10-2021 3:23pm

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J.P.1994 · 05-10-2021 3:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117979644#Comment_117979644

Of course I work for KIN, thought that was obvious. I mean if viewing figures of over half a million every week say anything at all, it's that only someone who worked on it could possibly like it!!