Anyone watch the Black Donnely\'s last night?
 

I did and was super underwhelmed. Way too, well, network tvish. It's like they took 4 guys from Friday Night Lights and tried to put guns in their hands, thereby making them mobsters.

The episode was all over the place, the mass shooting to a Snow Patrol (????) song was pretty absurd, and in general thought that the writers would've handled this better.

Maybe if someone had never seen an episode of the Sopranos this show might be alright I guess. Even so, I had some high hopes with all the great writers behind it, and it really underwhelmed me.

I'll probably give it one more shot next week, but the Monday night 10/9c spot on NBC doesn't seem to be working for them.

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It got a 1 star in USA today.

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Saw it, thought it was average, I'll try again next week, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

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I agree, it was pretty weak. twenty minutes in I gave up and watched Heroes.

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Damn. This show if offending my Irish heritage. I'll give it a couple weeks to get in shape.

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First half was boring and slow, but it picked up a little. It has potential so ill keep checking it, but it needs some quick improvements.

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Sloppy [censored] writing.

A voice over that basically serves as a lousy exposition device that vanishes off and on throughout the story.

A bad mix between commedy and and serious.

It's not horrible, but it's cliche, it's been done before, and nothing feels fresh.

The casting is pretty sick though, save for the actual lead actors. Can't believe they killed off Frank Sobatka that quick.

This ep was so mired in telling peopel who everbody is that it's hard to judge, I'll give them a few more shots, but I don't feel good about it.

The chick is cute as [censored].

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I'm trying to decide if this show is trying harder to be "The Departed" or "Four Brothers".

In any event, I think Mark Wahlberg should sue for royalties.

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Can't believe they killed off Frank Sobatka that quick.


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yeah, at least The Wire had the good sense to wait till the end of the season.

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Forgot about it, watched The Dead Zone Season 2 DVD and DanceLife instead.

From comments, seems like I make a decent (though slightly lame) choice

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I'm trying to decide if this show is trying harder to be "The Departed" or "Four Brothers".

In any event, I think Mark Wahlberg should sue for royalties.

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Sleepers. It's [censored] Sleepers.

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Awesome news. Hopefully nbc will can it quick and get studio 60 back on the air.

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Awesome news. Hopefully nbc will can it quick and get studio 60 back on the air.

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Yeah, I really liked that show.

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Awesome news. Hopefully nbc will can it quick and get studio 60 back on the air.

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I'd be willing to bet that we will see neither show on television come the fall.

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Yeah Dids is right. This show was even more boring than Sleepers. Bad writing, a ton of cliches, really lame. Nothing to recommend except the hot chick who also seems like a decent actress. I went in hoping to like it, but man was it disappointing.

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I agree with all the negative reviws, but I still sort of enjoyed it. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Damn. This show if offending my Irish heritage. I'll give it a couple weeks to get in shape.

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aye, this seems like such a horrible attempt at being authentic Irish. The New York setting doesn't lend itself well to it

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Yeah Dids is right. This show was even more boring than Sleepers. Bad writing, a ton of cliches, really lame. Nothing to recommend except the hot chick who also seems like a decent actress. I went in hoping to like it, but man was it disappointing.

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You thought Sleepers was boring?

I liked it ia lot, but it's kinda painfully long.

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All,

Like Matty, I agree w/ all the criticisms, but still kinda liked it and will watch it again. At least it was better than Four Brothers! And the chick is oh-so-hot.

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I liked Sleepers and Four Brothers. Still hated it.

El D,
I don't understand how a hot chick compells you to watch the show. You can get hot chicks on the internet.

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I'm trying to decide if this show is trying harder to be "The Departed" or "Four Brothers".

In any event, I think Mark Wahlberg should sue for royalties.

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Sleepers. It's [censored] Sleepers.

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when i saw the previews, all i could think was "oh crap, tell me they aren't trying to make a boondock saints tv series..."









...but it was much worse then that.

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I liked it. The ending was bad ass.

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All,

Like Matty, I agree w/ all the criticisms, but still kinda liked it and will watch it again. At least it was better than Four Brothers! And the chick is oh-so-hot.

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This was what I thought. I'll watch a few more episodes to see how it develops.

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The ending was extremely bad add. I liked the first episode a lot, I hope they can keep it up.

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I'm not sure if this has been noted yet, but there is an episode for free on itunes right now.

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All,

OK, this show sucks.

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All,

I went to school with Olivia:

http://www.kataweb.it/utility/oc/images/06.jpg

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Worse than the first ep by far.

How the [censored] does the college student/artist guy have the world's most ripped upper body?

I don't know if I'm ever seen a show self sabotage as much as this one does with the stupid narrator gimmic. Just a horrible choice that kills the show every time it pops up.

Olivia Wilde is pretty [censored] hot though, even better with dark hair.

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Agreed, tonights show was awful. I give it one more chance.

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I like the opening credits

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The brothers really piss me off. They're so goddamned stupid and selfish that I just can't concentrate on anything the show might be doing right. There is a way to do stupid in which you don't hate the character, Haggis and Co. do not know that path.

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Worse than the first ep by far.

How the [censored] does the college student/artist guy have the world's most ripped upper body?

I don't know if I'm ever seen a show self sabotage as much as this one does with the stupid narrator gimmic. Just a horrible choice that kills the show every time it pops up.

Olivia Wilde is pretty [censored] hot though, even better with dark hair.

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Have you ever gone to college? There's nothing to do except have sex, drink, and workout.

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I take thatback, he is pretty cut. But nothing special for a young guy.