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  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,991
    TellyTubby said:
    cafcfan1990 said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    TellyTubby said:
    I think it's almost impossible to keep going year after year and keep an interesting, unrepetitive story.

    We all want more of the best entertainment, but how many manage it? I think that John Cleese learnt much from Monty Python, as much of it was dross, some excellent.  Fawlty Towers was excellent throughout imho.

    Oh and I thought the Soloman character was poor btw. Far too over the top.
    Tom Hardy is a terrible actor.
    I'm assuming that's a joke?
    It was as though he was on stage not screen. I assume he was directed that way? Either way it didn't work for me.

    Yeah he’s just following directions. Same goes for Adrien Brody being OTT & really stereotypical – he didn’t write that role.

     I’ll watch it but I think it should have ended with a bang sooner. The end of the last season made me roll my eyes.

  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,474
    cafcfan1990 said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    TellyTubby said:
    I think it's almost impossible to keep going year after year and keep an interesting, unrepetitive story.

    We all want more of the best entertainment, but how many manage it? I think that John Cleese learnt much from Monty Python, as much of it was dross, some excellent.  Fawlty Towers was excellent throughout imho.

    Oh and I thought the Soloman character was poor btw. Far too over the top.
    Tom Hardy is a terrible actor.
    I'm assuming that's a joke?
    No I think he's incredibly hammy and wooden - very overrated. Just my opinion but find him hard to watch.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,931
    se9addick said:
    Think it’s been pretty good so far, certainly stats out good in series one & two and then starts to go downhill a little with increasingly unrealistic storylines.

    Don’t have high hopes for a “Tommy is now a politician” storyline. 

    Dunno, plenty of gangsters in politics 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,371
    Think from an artistic point of view they have wrung the juice out of it TBH...
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,705
    New series starts on Sunday night, second episode on Monday.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,234
    edited August 2019
    The new lad that will play Isaiah is my cousins' cousin's son, if you follow.  He's from Tipperary, great excitement.

  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,064
    Hopefully it can recapture what was good about the 1st season. The storylines have gotten pretty ridiculous with some laughable acting (yes you Adrien Brody). I watch it but think it's a massively overrated show
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,705
    AllHailTheHen said:
    Hopefully it can recapture what was good about the 1st season. The storylines have gotten pretty ridiculous with some laughable acting (yes you Adrien Brody). I watch it but think it's a massively overrated show
    The first series was based on stories that were passed down from family of the Peaky Blinders, the rest have just been written for the show.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,161
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    TellyTubby said:
    I think it's almost impossible to keep going year after year and keep an interesting, unrepetitive story.

    We all want more of the best entertainment, but how many manage it? I think that John Cleese learnt much from Monty Python, as much of it was dross, some excellent.  Fawlty Towers was excellent throughout imho.

    Oh and I thought the Soloman character was poor btw. Far too over the top.
    Tom Hardy is a terrible actor.
    You WOT??? He delivers the best line ever in the whole series. People know the one I mean, I'm sure. All the better for being a spit- your- beer- out funny line in a very dark overall scene.
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    cafcfan1990 said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    TellyTubby said:
    I think it's almost impossible to keep going year after year and keep an interesting, unrepetitive story.

    We all want more of the best entertainment, but how many manage it? I think that John Cleese learnt much from Monty Python, as much of it was dross, some excellent.  Fawlty Towers was excellent throughout imho.

    Oh and I thought the Soloman character was poor btw. Far too over the top.
    Tom Hardy is a terrible actor.
    I'm assuming that's a joke?
    No I think he's incredibly hammy and wooden - very overrated. Just my opinion but find him hard to watch.
    Fair enough, I actually agree he is overrated but would go nowhere near terrible, there's much worse out there just as much if not more for their "acting". 

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  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,882
    MrOneLung said:
    Only up to S1E2 at moment.

    plots are a little fanciful - my missus has given up on it.
    That should say S4 not S1 ....
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Only jumped on to this last year...loved all four seasons.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,754
    It is hard to sustain the levels through multiple series, but it is a rare treat for me. I normally only watch sport or news/politics but this is my sort of drama.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    I had lowered my expectations after the above comments, but I thoroughly enjoyed E1.
  • Taxi_Lad
    Taxi_Lad Posts: 3,773
    E1 of series 5 was a slow burner. Laying foundations for I hope is a thrilling run of episodes 2-6
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,705
    Good to see Thomas take in Alfie’s dog.
  • thickandthin63
    thickandthin63 Posts: 2,962
    What a weekend,battling 1-0 win,fantastic test match,and then to cap it all the return of Peaky Blinders.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,261
    Hello, hello
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    Henry Irving said:
    Hello, hello
    Enjoyed that tonight, could be the best series yet. 
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,420
    edited August 2019
    Great episode. That Billy Boys scene was amazing.

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  • Taxi_Lad
    Taxi_Lad Posts: 3,773
    The level of violence seems to have reached tipping point for my Mrs. Will be watching the rest of the series alone
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    Taxi_Lad said:
    The level of violence seems to have reached tipping point for my Mrs. Will be watching the rest of the series alone
    Mrs SB beginning to struggle for the same reason. 
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,705
    Sillybilly said:
    Taxi_Lad said:
    The level of violence seems to have reached tipping point for my Mrs. Will be watching the rest of the series alone
    Mrs SB beginning to struggle for the same reason. 
    The first series was very violent, the rest not much so. 
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,705
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,376
    Sam Peckinpah has a lot to answer for ..  VERY unBBC, although the Line of Duty writer likes to pile up the corpses
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,741
    The lad who plays Finn isn't a very good actor is he.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,376
    Croydon said:
    The lad who plays Finn isn't a very good actor is he.
    they are all a bunch of hams in a very hammy series ((:>)
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,371
    Pure out and out porcine acting but that is the point isn't it, entertainment?
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,415
    So far so good...without the previous edge and tension, but the characters are becoming more complex, so am hoping for a good series.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    Can’t stop laughing at the haircuts though!!

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