Bloodlands

Fran has a bone · 15-03-2021 12:21am

I didn't think it was as bad as people are saying it's getting slated on twitter but that doesn't mean much really.

But yeah I'd agree with most of the critical points here Lisa Dwans accent was a bit off. Nesbitt is fairly wooden. Too many plot twists shoed in and 4 episodes isn't enough for a background.

Fran has a bone · 15-03-2021 12:28am

dastardly00 wrote: »

The more I think about this programme, the more sh*te I realise it was. It could have been really good though...

I didn't think it was that bad from an Irish perspective. I'm struggling to think of anything better from RTE or Virgin in recent years that makes this so awful.

I think because of Mercurio and the timing with Line of Duty it's compared to that but it's not really a fair comparison, LOD is probably BBCs most successful drama in many years. Most shows compare unfavourably.

joeysoap · 15-03-2021 12:31am

I love a happy ending like that. Everybody’s happy.

especially Emma.

MfMan · 15-03-2021 1:16am

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Threw phone hed used to tip him off about doctor

OK, thought it was the other thing.

JP Liz V1 · 15-03-2021 1:33am

wench wrote: »

Lets have a confrontation in the middle of nowhere. That'll go well.

Watch season 2? I will in me hoop!

Is there a season 2?

wench · 15-03-2021 1:49am

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Is there a season 2?

Well so the continuity announcer said at the end...

brian_t · 15-03-2021 1:50am

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Is there a season 2?

Yes. It was announced at the end the episode.

Rodin · 15-03-2021 1:50am

The accents of the non-NI natives were completely distracting.

Rodin · 15-03-2021 1:52am

onrail wrote: »

Not sure if I’m slagging it - it’s just that she sounds EXACTLY like Erin Quinn/Soirse-Monica Whatever (who herself puts on a fairly exaggerated Derry accent!

That's exactly how she sounds.
Her accent is shocking.

Rodin · 15-03-2021 1:54am

Seathrun66 wrote: »

It'd probably be irrelevant if the series was top notch. But it isn't, so you're drawn to all the flaws.

Lorcan Cranitch, Charlene McKenna and others seem to do fine with the accent. The doctor just seems a bit meandering. And squeaky. It's distracting. But hey, it's better than anything I'd ever be able to do.

Charlene McKenna's accent is awful.
It's like someone trying to do a ventriloquist's dummy with a NI accent.

JP Liz V1 · 15-03-2021 2:18am

wench wrote: »

Well so the continuity announcer said at the end...

brian_t wrote: »

Yes. It was announced at the end the episode.

I must have missed that

I'm glad the doc got whacked

The_Dave · 15-03-2021 11:10am

What I don't get is

Jackie knows Tom's wife was last seen about 2 weeks before he reported her missing, how does Tom account for this?

Fran has a bone · 15-03-2021 12:16pm

Rodin wrote: »

Charlene McKenna's accent is awful.
It's like someone trying to do a ventriloquist's dummy with a NI accent.

Her accent was fine I thought, she's from Monaghan.
, she actually didn't do an accent at all she talks like that normally! It's just a Monaghan accent

extra gravy · 15-03-2021 12:40pm

gmisk wrote: »

Ok this is maybe a stupid question but...
Why was Brannick seemingly desperate to reopen goliath to investigate himself?!

Yes I was wondering this too, doesn't make any sense?

De Bhál · 15-03-2021 12:42pm

not the worse show, but found it hard to follow. Not sure why.

I thought the bit of Irish was good to see although ridicoulous - like she may as well have spoke english and been out in the open. Surely the Irish would've had the inspector just arrest her until they got in someone to translate.

Overall there were too many moments like that where I was saying to myself "sure that's ridicoulous"

wench · 15-03-2021 12:53pm

extra gravy wrote: »

Yes I was wondering this too, doesn't make any sense?

If an investigation into your criminal activities is going to be done, best do it yourself lest you be found out!

sydthebeat · 15-03-2021 12:55pm

ridiculous show

not a hope im invested for a second series. you could drive the QE2 through the plot holes.

extra gravy · 15-03-2021 1:53pm

wench wrote: »

If an investigation into your criminal activities is going to be done, best do it yourself lest you be found out!

True but all they had initially was the postcard, you'd think it would only be himself and Twomey that would have had the necessary knowledge to make the link to Goliath through that. Plus it was clear Twomey did not want it investigated

frozenfrozen · 15-03-2021 5:47pm

it was actually just a better story away from being good. Looked and sounded nice, good wardrobe and locations

casting not bad, the acting was only really getting rough at the same time the twists and turns had to be bloody telegraphed from 100 miles away

Was getting into it in the first two episodes as I thought it may end up being clever or something

did end up shite though because of the plot

JP Liz V1 · 15-03-2021 5:57pm

https://twitter.com/bbcpress/status/1371220116285837312

Seathrun66 · 16-03-2021 1:02pm

Ended quite well I though. Absurd stuff of course, but watchable. And the more small screen stuff that's made on this island the more of an industry we'll have. Game of Thrones, Vikings, The Fall, Dublin Murders, Smother, Line of Duty, Ripper Street, Penny Dreadful and Bloodlands are prestige shows, most doing quite well internationally. More of this please.

joeysoap · 16-03-2021 2:23pm

Marcella and not forgetting Derry girls

weemcd · 16-03-2021 3:32pm

joeysoap wrote: »

Marcella and not forgetting Derry girls

No matter how hard I try to forget Derry Girls I'm still reminded of it.

Dempo1 · 17-03-2021 8:28am

I watched the 4 episodes in anticipation it might get better and boy I was wrong. This series has to be the most awful ham-fisted and dreadful attempt at Drama the BBC ever came up with.

Not a single actor was convincing, actually they we're just dreadful, especially Nesbit who at least managed not to loose his hair Toupee once throughout this horror show. I was so bored and can't even think of the characters names but the Doctor, love interest and ultimate victim was just terrible but I guess she can be thankful of not getting a part in series two or at least potential viewers will be thankful, pretty embarrassing amateur acting skills . The daughter was by all accounts present to fill space and beyond irratating and the annoying young detective was like a school boy on work experience, his last line (over the border in the free state) speaking to his superior officer, a Token Catholic, kind of said it all.

I've lost 4 hours of my life watching this S****, I'll never get it back, let's be hopeful the BBC change their minds, awful, awful stuff. Thank god it was free to watch.

Seathrun66 · 17-03-2021 3:30pm

Dempo1 wrote: »

I watched the 4 episodes in anticipation it might get better and boy I was wrong. This series has to be the most awful ham-fisted and dreadful attempt at Drama the BBC ever came up with.

Not a single actor was convincing, actually they we're just dreadful, especially Nesbit who at least managed not to loose his hair Toupee once throughout this horror show. I was so bored and can't even think of the characters names but the Doctor, love interest and ultimate victim was just terrible but I guess she can be thankful of not getting a part in series two or at least potential viewers will be thankful, pretty embarrassing amateur acting skills . The daughter was by all accounts present to fill space and beyond irratating and the annoying young detective was like a school boy on work experience, his last line (over the border in the free state) speaking to his superior officer, a Token Catholic, kind of said it all.

I've lost 4 hours of my life watching this S****, I'll never get it back, let's be hopeful the BBC change their minds, awful, awful stuff. Thank god it was free to watch.

So, in essence, you've mixed feelings about it?

Dempo1 · 17-03-2021 4:16pm

Seathrun66 wrote: »

So, in essence, you've mixed feelings about it?

LOL, no mixed feelings unless your referring to a mixture of boredom, mundaness, awfulness etc etc

opus · 17-03-2021 9:00pm

The_Dave wrote: »

What I don't get is
Jackie knows Tom's wife was last seen about 2 weeks before he reported her missing, how does Tom account for this?

Thought the same, did everyone just forget about that after the shootout

It was ok but think I'm glad it was just four episodes long.

UrbanFret · 17-03-2021 11:43pm

Absolute bull**** from start to finish. Absurd nonsense. Nesbitt pulling faces constantly. Goliath my arse more like Midget.

JoeA3 · 18-03-2021 12:09am

I thought this was dreadful by the numbers stuff too. Not convincing at all. Nesbitt is an extremely wooden actor and he was solid oak in this. In no way shape or form did he convince me as a Cop and certainly not a “Goliath”. It was all just the usual rehashed Norn Iron cliches, riddled with cliches and terrible acting.

Worryingly, Jed Mercurio was involved in this mess. Hope it’s not a sign of things to come for the upcoming new series of Line of Duty.

18-03-2021 6:05pm

Jesus that was ****e.
The overacting, the painfully going over things so many times to make sure we got it....

Will I watch season 2 .....probably!

ejmaztec · 19-03-2021 1:24am

The scenery wasn't too bad, there should have been more of it.

I thought it was a coincidence that the cop brought in to do the interrogation is also in Unforgotten being interrogated.

The_Dave · 19-03-2021 12:26pm

Gabrielle Uninterested Hawk wrote: »

Jesus that was ****e.
The overacting, the painfully going over things so many times to make sure we got it....

Will I watch season 2 .....probably!

Tbh I'd go along with that, I watch a lot of telly that's much worse, so ya, I'll stick around for S2

CoBo55 · 19-03-2021 12:28pm

ejmaztec wrote: »

The scenery wasn't too bad, there should have been more of it.

I thought it was a coincidence that the cop brought in to do the interrogation is also in Unforgotten being interrogated.

And she was the killer in cracker back in the 90's, make yer mind up missus:D:D

ejmaztec · 19-03-2021 2:34pm

CoBo55 wrote: »

And she was the killer in cracker back in the 90's, make yer mind up missus:D:D

I didn't realise that her brother is John Lynch, who also seems to be in everything

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001487/?ref_=nm_dyk_trv1

waxmelts2000 · 19-03-2021 9:19pm

Just finished the last episode , I was expecting it to be better than that, very poor.

JP Liz V1 · 10-02-2022 6:50pm

AMC has renewed

10-02-2022 8:26pm

I really rate Lisa Dwan as an actor. She was incredible in Pale Sister a couple of years ago (maybe longer😳). Shame that her character died

JP Liz V1 · 13-09-2022 10:43pm

Series two starts on Sunday September 18th

CoBo55 · 14-09-2022 7:45am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119615007#Comment_119615007

Think I'll pass sure we know he's Goliath... It was pretty awful anyway.

Galwayguy35 · 16-09-2022 8:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119615007#Comment_119615007

RTE or BBC?

JP Liz V1 · 16-09-2022 10:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119627972#Comment_119627972

BBC

dastardly00 · 25-09-2022 9:58pm

The first season started well but then turned out to be pretty poor.

This second season is an absolute shambles.

CoBo55 · 26-09-2022 12:31am

Have it recording not sure if I'll bother tbh.

ejmaztec · 14-10-2022 12:47am

It seems easy to lose interest in this series, and I think the most awkward scenes are the Nesbitt/Smurfit "loved up" ones. The chemistry is completely non-existent 🤣

Seathrun66 · 19-10-2022 11:01pm

I thought the first series was daft, but bearable.

This is much better, still daft but Charlene McKenna, Victoria Smurfit, Lorcan Cranitch and the actors playing Birdy, Izzy & Ryan Savage are all very good. Great scenery, the plot and tension are decent and it’s very entertaining Sunday now get telly.

I’d happily watch another season. Hard to see it happening though.

Galwayguy35 · 24-10-2022 7:54pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119768580#Comment_119768580

I don't know, with that ending it looks like they are setting things up for another season.

I thought Brannicks wife might have made an appearance in it, I know she is supposed to be missing but it seems like she must be dead or else they are waiting until S3.

Seathrun66 · 25-10-2022 10:42am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119788578#Comment_119788578

I agree, they're definitely hoping for a third season but the viewer numbers are way down so it may not get renewed. They'll have to go off on an entirely different direction as Brannick is in a fair bit of hassle.........

Boston gangsters coming for revenge, Nesbitt in jail??

RoryMurphyJnr · 05-12-2022 11:09am

Anyone recognise the Foyle's house?

I'm sure it appeared in one of Dermot Bannon's shows, about great houses

Bloodlands

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