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Haven't watched the new episodes yet but I had already drifted into hate watching territory a while ago tbh.

I'll still watch it for the craic I suppose... it's reasonably entertaining and easy on the eye hokum as long as you don't think about it too much

Wags screwed him out a burial plot in season 3.

Then he got Wags back when was was invited to join some fraternity in season 4 but it wasn't real and Wags wore a dress for no reason.

i didn’t expect Prince to beat axe tbh

preview for the next series looks like the same old stuff again, Chuck and anyone else against the rich guy in the office but it won’t be the same without axe

i thought it was a good final episode… the budget for songs they get for episodes must be astronomical

The plan is 100 seasons

From what I’ve seen online he’s not coming back

I found it entertaining even if it is a shadow of it's former self. With Damian Lewis departing for personal reasons I think it would've been better to wrap it up, a fitting ending would've been Axe and Chuck both going to jail after some epic final battle. I guess there is still money to be made with another season so it's being dragged on with a new main protagonist, it'll probably end up like the final season of House of Cards after Spacey left which fell off a cliff quality and viewers wise

I actually rewatched the entire series before the second half of season 5 came out. It was interesting to go back to it with fresh eyes. I think when the show started a lot of people had different expectations of the tone of the show and what it was. Going back and watching it from the start, I found it an enjoyable watch.

I think Season 5 and in particular, the second half was poor. You can put that down to a variety of factors, Covid, Damien Lewis's bereavement but I think fundamentally the writing was the biggest issue, and that was a problem in the first half of the season as well.

I don't think they had a clear idea of what they wanted to do with the characters, and in particular why the characters would do what they do. To a certain extent, Chuck and Axe are doing what they are usually doing, but Wendy and Taylor in particular are really out of character in Season 5. The Wendy/Axe thing doesn't make sense at this stage in the story, and why Taylor doesn't just leave doesn't make sense to me.

I did think the final episode was good - but in essence, it was a watered-down version of the Ice Juice scam, where Chuck engineers the same trap for Axe, except this time it's nowhere near as clever.

Maybe Season 6 will be a return to form - maybe not.

Damian Lewis is taking a break from acting after his wife died this year.

I'm surprised he wasn't contracted to do all of the seasons provided it wasn't cancelled but maybe he only agreed to work season by season.

Obviously they wouldn't enforce any such option now in the circumstances but it seems a bit odd that you wouldn't have the show's main character tied down for as long as you need him for.

Oh yeah don't get me wrong I agree with him too. As I said above I think the whole show should have been wrapped up with this season. I'm just surprised that he would have been able to leave anyway even before his wife's death but as you say he did it with Homeland too so maybe that's just how he works.

I see he hasn't actually completely ruled out coming back at some point. But I doubt he will at this stage.

That is most definitely not a Limerick accent. Would've been an extremely cringeworthy scene if it had been. 😬

Yeah you might be right but him and William H Macy were kinda type cast for a long for playing losers in movies… I bet Giamatti is loving to get to play an Alpha

Just watched episode 1 of series 6 and it was okay, not the same without ax but I’m not hating it like I expected

Monday sky Atlantic

Wendy is turning once he took her advice

Taylor will come on board now the dirty money has gone

Chuck will be back to normal in the next episode 100%