Charlie (1 Viewer)

[7 - No tomorrow]

Anyone watching this tonight?



Who's playing Bertie?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

It doesn't like the rte link, @pete

http://xxx.rte.ie/drama/tv/featured/charlie/

 

[pete]

It doesn't like the rte link, @pete

http://xxx.rte.ie/drama/tv/featured/charlie/

aha

i think it's the link title grabber not liking the fada

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

aha

i think it's the link title grabber not liking the fada

Won't let me reply with it either

 

[pete]

ANYWAY

Charlie

 

[therealjohnny]

The trailer and unconvincing wig makes it look like a comedy sketch

I'll watch it anyway

 

[therealjohnny]

This appears to be shit

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

He's right about North side lads and posh birds

 

[therealjohnny]

The cast of love hate in unconvincing wigs is putting me off

People speaking as if they're on stage too

But I'll stick with it and see

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

We went to the same school. I stung him for a fiver for the school walk.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

This is fucking great btw

 

[therealjohnny]

I'm not convinced this is any good as a drama but it is bringing back memories.
I clearly remember Rise and Follow Charlie drifting up from the village as it was being blasted from a PA as some FF guy was visiting. Strange times.

No doubt this will do wonders for the reinvention of Haughey. He was some boyo, stickin it to Thatcher wha'?

 

[therealjohnny]

And expect sales of this stuff to go through the roof

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I'm not convinced this is any good as a drama but it is bringing back memories

It's great as a camp visualisation of what a small town joke of a government our country had and has.
Bullies and con men can prevail.

 

[therealjohnny]

I don't think camp and fun is their intention and it's that imbalance between stagey camp and serious drama that's putting me off it. It's too silly to make me really angry

Gubu should be fun next week

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

People speaking as if they're on stage too

I'm convinced that RTE are contractually obliged to include stage actors to avoid programmes from becoming too realistic. What was that mini series last year about the girl going missing? The dad in that had classic RTE "acting" voice.

 

[ann post]

I wrote a song about him ages ago.

Let me know when they use it for the end credits

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[Richie]

Kept thinking how much Gillen was over-acting, and then went back and watched some footage of the real Haughey, and he did speak like that more or less, so fair enough.. Felt like they had too much ground to cover in too short a space of time, and hence a lot of actors delivering exposition, there wasn't much dialogue in it that felt natural or much space to develop the 'characters' beyond basic outlines. Was the real B. Lenihan Sr that much of a goon? My memory of the politics of that era is reduced to a few fragments of Scrap Saturday..

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Was the real B. Lenihan Sr that much of a goon?

They defo played it that way. They may have been looking to make him an exemplar of how he fucked people that bended to him.

It will be interesting to see how they tie it into CJ raping his health fund.

 

[GO]

I watched it just there hoping to see a few raleigh choppers and maybe a shot of the malahide road.There was neither