McMafia

[Nick Armstrong]

I thought the next 007 is going to be Jodie Whittaker?

Wrong opera...

[kernelbogey]

Roger Moore would qualify then - just to raise an eyebrow...

"Do come in, Mr Bond: you don't look too well."

[eighthobstruction]

....as an answer to jlw's 007 search....Shaun Evans as a new sort of Bond....but I'd guess he may have better fish to fry....

[LMcD]

....as an answer to jlw's 007 search....Shaun Evans as a new sort of Bond....but I'd guess he may have better fish to fry....

I'm sure he'd give it his best endeavour

[Nick Armstrong]

Well episode 3 is still hampered by the performance of the central character...

[eighthobstruction]

[kernelbogey]

I forgot about it on Sunday night; watched catchup: decided that it is the script that is at fault, and the poor actors are doing their best to act lines that people (even crooks) just would not say. Bye bye McMafia. I just cannot summon up any interest in anyone (with the possible exception of Kleiman).

[muzzer]

This sort of drama is fundamentally flawed and best viewed as escapist entertainment I think.

[eighthobstruction]

....t'other that they (Beeb) have been only been harking on about a bit (i.e Beeb don't rate it)....Hard Sun....as you say muzzer fundementally flawed...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

....Hard Sun....

Oh, crumbs! Now that is utter bilge! I watched the first episode, started the second, wondered where my life had gone wrong, and gave up. Cliché Bingo (Conspiracy Theory - check; MI5 villains - check; newly-appointed female cop hired by bosses to investigate her superior - check; dodgy superior - check; detective having affair with late colleague's wife - check; central character with serious problems in personal life - check; imminent end of the world that has only been noticed by British scientists - check) and risibly offensive gratuitous violence - one character so badly beaten up that in real life he'd need weeks in traction, gets up, runs away from a car chasing him which then runs him over - and he gets up again!

I can only imagine that the prior cause of this series was a memo from the canteen to make-up department telling them that they had ten barrels of ketchup past their use-by date, have they any use for them?



Makes the unpretentiously entertaining scenic tosh that is Death in Paradise seem positively Ibsenesque.

[LMcD]

Thank you all for saving me from wasting my valuable time watching this series.

[Dave2002]

1 3/4 hours down. Seems a completely disjointed mess.