North Sea Connection

This looks promising but with Irish drama one never knows. They are hit and miss ...

Hit

Love/Hate was the best. Depicted what it did well. All 5 seasons had something good to offer us and season 3 especially was the best Irish TV drama ever made.

Kin was not as good as L/H (so far) but was the next best thing. Great opening and conclusion. Slowish in the middle but generally this was a good show with the first season as good as L/H's first. Looking forward to season 2 and if it follows L/H in terms of getting better as it goes along we have a lot to enjoy.

Charlie was a very good dramatization of Haughey's government with many of L/H's cast.

Miss

Striking out and Finding Joy ... awful.

The Big Bow Wow ... worse.

Rebellion and Taken Down ... utterly disappointing.

Cant Cope Wont Cope and Trouble in Paradise ... bland.

Acceptable Risk and Clean Break ... so so.

PS: did not get to see Hidden Assets, Amber or Single Handed. So cannot say.

PS: I have 0 interest in hospital or cheffing dramas so cannot tell if the Clinic or Cooked Raw were good or not.

Connemara. Roundstone, Leenane, Clifden area mainly. The pop up Garda station caused a lot of u-turns by locals in the first couple of days 😃

Dear me. How do you they pump money into these things and churn out this tripe?

Was ok. Cast let down by a clunky, rather self-conscious script and performances were a bit too earnest and forced. As usual, things improved immensely when Stuart Graham appeared.

Accents were a bit off. Even if I didn't have a connection (pun possibly intended) with the area and been around during the filming I would definitely stay watching.

If RTE Player actually lets anybody watch it there's a "meet the characters" extra which is quite interesting.

Also it was filmed during semi-lockdown which may explain the way some of the scenes were shot.

Decent enough opener. Why they didn't initially put the holdalls in to the watertright blue drums featured later on the boat and retrieve them is beyond me, nobody is putting perishable holdalls with million dollar drugs directly in to the sea. Would have also been better to have been more realistic and featured cocaine on the west coast.

RTE really are all over the place, they put a preview for Meaning Of Life on directly after this and put a preview for next weeks episode of this on for the first break on Meaning Of Life.

Of course there is a mixed-race, and indeed multinational, couple. Of course the drug lord is from the north, with an accent veering very close to American at times.

Surely, if she got a good day's catch of fish, she'd be easily be able to hide the hold-alls underneath the bounty? That yokel country garda definitely won't suspect a thing.

Decent all the same.

Pretty good opening episode and the scenery is stunning. I thought it was going be a bit slow moving at first, but they got to the action / criminal stuff fairly quickly.

I love this bit of the review from The Examiner. It's exactly what I was thinking myself.

😃😃😃

Unbelievably poor, plot line done to death, wooden acting, bizarre accents. Won't be sticking around for EP2

Three cigarette cases for a Euro? 😃

Surprised anyone can enjoy this I find it Dreadfully bad. Felt like it was a college project I was watching. Acting is atrocious as is the editing and sound. It's unbelievablely shite, makes Smother look like The Wire

I agree with most of what you have said ... NSC is decent so far and way better than most RTE efforts since Love/Hate ... I disagree about Kin ... L/H as it stands is the best ... Kin sagged a bit in the middle but the start & end were awesome ... plenty room to even up the ante in season 2 post Covid ...

NSC so far is very watchable ... and has potential to be awesome ... it is miles better than the disappointing overhyped Talen Down as well as obvious trash dramas such as Finding Joy and Striking Out ...

Poor episode this week, no preview afterwards of next weeks episode.

I think the lead actress is underwhelming, imho. When I'm eating dinner, it's on in the background. I've tried. It's not 'The South Westerlies' bad (no Patrick Bergin, so of course it's above average if he's not in it) but the 'tense' moments feel like the lead actress is not strong enough for the part.

Yeah, How long has he lived there? Its the first time he has encountered another swede since?

Bit corny last night. Garda stuff was very unoriginal. Also the stoner screw-up character. Obviously will be the first one to go.

Spoiler alert - was looking up IMDB to try and see where I knew him from, and saw he’s only listed for 3 of the 6 episodes, so I’d suspect you’re correct there.

Yes.... and don't forget they also drove off without getting the drugs from the car.

The female hitman (hit-woman, hit-person??) losing her patience in the front of the van is the cringiest segment of TV I've seen in a while.

And who brought the trawler back to dock after she landed the drugs on shore?

Anyway it's comically appalling imho...somewhere between a guilty pleasure and a hate watch for me

Some of d'accents are rather flah, some characters not finishing their words properly too, but that happens in real life here, so...

It's watchable enough, I suppose.

I still think it’s ok. Couple of plot holes though. When they explained to the gang boss what happened to the guy on the boat, why wasn’t his next question “and what about my missing drugs ?” Has he forgotten about them ? Also, has nobody missed the part of the stash the stoner pilfered ? And what about his post mortem ? Isn’t there a chance the autopsy will reveal the shooting, even on a burned body ? (No expertise here, so I genuinely don’t know the answer to that.)I liked the fact that they had the car on video on the phone.

A 'ghost' car transporter with 2000 Toyota Corolla's from 1996 fitted with new 500bhp engines sinking off Clifden tonight would make the current plotline more feasible.