Kin - RTE & AMC

Maybe Michaels misses was caught in the crossfire of a revenge shooting or something

Amanda's Dublin accent is pretty strong but overall she's the acting MVP of the series

The goons on all sides don't look that menacing. Vikings lads look pretty shite tbf

I saw a promo for this, and I noticed peculiar camera angles? Is there a name for this kind of technique*. It's like an attempt to add gravitas to the production when all it is is placing a camera at a odd angle.

*Would it be the 'fly perspective'?

The soundtrack is someone from the Irish industry. It's David Holmes.

RTE's add they are playing this week about the next Episode is really bad. It's basically all spoilers. Well done RTE.

Yeah the blurry shots, which seemed to be every second shot in episode 2, are bothering me too. I don't know why!

I think I made the same remark almost word for word as soon as that line was uttered!

Frank being shown as gay/bi with a predilection for casual hookups seems a bit of a Chekov's gun - no doubt it'll be how he gets killed later in the season: a honey trap of some sort.

The show is very patchy. At points it works quite well but some of it is poorly written.

Claire Dunne is quite poor in her role. The accent doesn't work. Ditto Maria DK. Generic matriarch of gang family part. Also, what is going on with Ciarán Hinds' accent too? Has he had a stroke?

The most interesting part about it is Charlie Cox's character which seems to have a lot of internal conflict going on. It has me interested to see which way it will play out.

Ep2 was poor...and episode 1 wasnt that great either.

Waste of a good cast....Clare Dunne does well with what she has (she can definitely act she is brilliant in herself).....but Aidan Gillen and emmett scanlan...are absolutely f#cking awful in this.

Was it just me or was the BJ unnecessary? How did it add to the narrative?

Pissing in the bag of money was a bit unnecessary too.

Exactly. Ciaran Hinds hardly has come out of nowhere, having honed his craft for years. Initially, he did a lot of theatre work.

Ciaran had an uncredited cameo in that dark gangster-oriented black comedy film In Bruges. He was the priest by the way!

He was one of the group of secret Israeli assassins in the film Munich.

I'm surprised that Sean McGinley hasn't turned up in this - he has been in a number of Irish dramas, including Love/Hate. He is a good actor.

This church appears in the trailer for the show on IMDB, does anyone happen to know where it is and what it's called? I'm so, so sure I've seen it before in real life but I can't place it!

It's up in Greenhills. Church of the Holy Spirit, I think.

I don't understand all the disgust about the blowjob scene. I'm sure it will link into a later development or perhaps it's already a factor in the storyling. Perhaps Frank's taste for younger men is already known to Eamon and that's part of the reason why Frank was always so keen to stay compliant with Eamon's earlier demand to solely buy from him. Alternatively, I'm sure it will come into the storyline at some future point. I imagine that it will fit in better than the nonsensical "my kid was murdered so come're and gimme a crying ride because that's the last thing I described to him" scene!

Overall though, so far I find the dialogue fairly poorly written and the lines mostly delivered badly by actors that seem to be overly focused on speaking slowly and calmly for their situation. Potentially the delivery was intentionally slowed down to allow US audiences understand what was being said without the need for subtitles but I find Emmett J Scanlan to speak like that in everything.