Boat Story BBC1

[Leon Solent]

I watched it. I've liked Tchéky Karyo since he was in Missing and Baptiste. Cracking actor.
It's a bit thin on story but I'll stick with it.

 

[Arkle]

I enjoyed both series of Kin. Not a patch on Love/Hate like.

I've only watched series 1 episode 1 of Kin, as I said, but thought it seemed quite cliched.

 

[Darlo1973]

Not for me. I know Daisy Haggard has been touted as the next big thing in comedy but I really don't get her.

 

[Martin F]

Engaging enough, but seems like a Coen brothers reject.

 

[riffraff]

I watched the first episode and thought it was very poor.

I'm all for suspending belief but the police station incident would likely result in pretty much some kind of lockdown..

Aye. Anyone still wandering around the area who wasn’t a local wad be picked up at gun point. The French feller and the black lad who has only been there a few days for starters.

Any idiot can come up with a plot if realisms out of the window.

 

[Old Prestonian]

I've watched the first two episodes and thought it was OK but it is far from gripping.

 

[fingal15]

watched the tourist and loved it
watching the boat and loving it
just a bit crazy in parts but who doesnt love crazy right

 

[joebolton]

Thought the same at first, but the more I watched it , enjoyed it more , know what you mean, but will stick with it ......

Well I might give it another go then.
Tyne Tees has nothing fighting against it really other than I’m a celebrity. Just a shame you normally get a top notch drama in the Autumn.
There was a good one about Peter Manuel a few year ago might try and find that.

 

[Trumpet]

Thought the same at first, but the more I watched it , enjoyed it more , know what you mean, but will stick with it ......

Same here glad I stayed with it and Episode 2 starting to pull some threads together nicely. Brutal violence tho not my cup of tea

 

[Ciro_DiMarzio]

I've only watched series 1 episode 1 of Kin, as I said, but thought it seemed quite cliched.

I'd agree it's clichéd. I don't think I've ever seen a TV show about organised crime that isn't.

 

[BiG]

I’ll give it a swerve then

I enjoyed it. It was quirky and daft but well acted. Lot of good people in it. The violence is a trifle too gory but I think they’re going for a Fargo vibe.

It’s not meant to be taken seriously. There are scenes where one of the characters has turned the main story into a stage musical and there are flash forwards to ‘actors’ playing the main characters in the main story, singing songs that reveal elements of the plot. You have to just go with it. I laughed.

edit: re the ‘cliched’ comments . I think that’s a stylistic choice. It’s ironic. Imo.


@Cockney Mackem is our resident expert in these matters

 

[Cockney Mackem]

I enjoyed it. It was quirky and daft but well acted. Lot of good people in it. The violence is a trifle too gory but I think they’re going for a Fargo vibe.

It’s not meant to be taken seriously. There are scenes where one of the characters has turned the main story into a stage musical and there are flash forwards to ‘actors’ playing the main characters in the main story, singing songs that reveal elements of the plot. You have to just go with it. I laughed.

edit: re the ‘cliched’ comments . I think that’s a stylistic choice. It’s ironic. Imo.


@Cockney Mackem is our resident expert in these matters

I'm only half way through sitting next to our lass (No) while she watches it

 

[aeroplane mode]

Watched one and a half episodes and switched it off. Dreadful.

 

[Hair Flick]

I enjoyed it. It was quirky and daft but well acted. Lot of good people in it. The violence is a trifle too gory but I think they’re going for a Fargo vibe.

It’s not meant to be taken seriously. There are scenes where one of the characters has turned the main story into a stage musical and there are flash forwards to ‘actors’ playing the main characters in the main story, singing songs that reveal elements of the plot. You have to just go with it. I laughed.

edit: re the ‘cliched’ comments . I think that’s a stylistic choice. It’s ironic. Imo.


@Cockney Mackem is our resident expert in these matters

The play part reminded me a little bit of The Singing Detective.

 

[Al]

I think it's a good laugh. It's not meant to be realistic - I mean for starters there's nee way a boat would have been washed up on Redcar seafront for a few hours and still have had all them drugs in it.

 

[Arkle]

I enjoyed it. It was quirky and daft but well acted. Lot of good people in it. The violence is a trifle too gory but I think they’re going for a Fargo vibe.

It’s not meant to be taken seriously. There are scenes where one of the characters has turned the main story into a stage musical and there are flash forwards to ‘actors’ playing the main characters in the main story, singing songs that reveal elements of the plot. You have to just go with it. I laughed.

edit: re the ‘cliched’ comments . I think that’s a stylistic choice. It’s ironic. Imo.


@Cockney Mackem is our resident expert in these matters

My cliched comments, if that's the ones you're referring to, are about Kin rather than Boat Story.

 

[BiG]

My cliched comments, if that's the ones you're referring to, are about Kin rather than Boat Story.

Sorry. I misread.

 

[Jon Dough]

Voiceovers have always been considered the cheap way of telling a story in the TV-fillum world. Apart from Double Indemnity I can’t think of a film that’s enhanced by them.

Shawshank redemption?

 

[Lukas73]

started watching last night...laughed at the dark humor, thought it was alright myself...

 

[Harry Gates]

The play part reminded me a little bit of The Singing Detective.

It was that flaky?