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A Mk3 Granada in 1983? Do me a favour, also Mk2 Orion Mk3 Transits.
Continuity is shocking. What do you fink we are? Some sort of pilchards?
I thought that Granada looked a bit too modern. Enjoyable series though.
There's a related podcast on BBC sounds about one of the main villains which is worth listening to. Gangster.
Done the first 4 episodes. I'm quite enjoying how the group are changing from loveable rouges into the gangsters they are.
Watched the first episode. It was ok but the constant reminders from the Kenneth noye character that they were crooks/gangsters/different from everyone else, was a bit cringe
There’s a related podcast on BBC sounds about one of the main villains which is worth listening to. Gangster.
Yep, worth a listen.
Binged all six episodes. Certainly entertaining but almost certainly not realistic...and who gives a shit about the slightly wrong model year cars really?
I enjoyed it, a good yarn! They did bang on about being against the establishment quite a bit, it was a bit much in parts but they just about got away with it.
Series 2 a shoe in? Follow up with the guy by the pool in the last episode? Plus what some of the others got up to next.
Think the Hatton Garden robbery has been well covered though?
A Mk3 Granada in 1983? Do me a favour, also Mk2 Orion Mk3 Transits.
Continuity is shocking. What do you fink we are? Some sort of pilchards?
Depeche Mode - 'Never let me down' playing in the background at Ken Noyce's house. Looks like someone's Googlefu has let them down. Released 1987.
Enjoyed it. Bonneville is excellent. The cars!!!. I was in London at uni during that period. The Met did not drive 15 year old Rover P5s. My housemate did. Clearly 80s-90s cars are in very short supply for filming duties. Every Rover SD1 in police livery was probably hired for some shots. Wolsey police cars in Kent? Come on, everyone was driving an Escort.
As for the story. Well it has its licenses for dramatic effect but this was more violent than portrayed and the follow up for those involved was equally violent. At least 20 people involved have since been killed. Noyes was a violent psychopath, whether he still is is up for the parole board.
Recommended. Especially the last track 😎
Thoroughly enjoyable telly. Currently listening to the BBC Gangsters podcast about Goldfinger Palmer.
@TiRed Noye was released in 2019!
"how the group are changing from loveable rouges into the gangsters they are".
This is what I don't like about these "based on" films/shows- Noye was as TiRed described, not a latter day Robin Hood.
I am aware that he has been released, but serving a lifetime sentence. He can be returned to prison at any time for a further breach of his conditions. It was a contentious decision at the time. They are not loveable rogues. Perhaps some of the Hatton Cross robbers might fall closer to that (on account of age), but I doubt that too.
Noye killed a police officer and an innocent motorist , don’t like the way the program portrays him as a likeable rouge
If 20 people related to the initial crime have been murdered since, they're clearly not nice people. Definitely off the dinner party invitation list...
I haven't seen the programme but portraying gangsters as likable rouges is nothing new.
The Kray Twins as celebrity gangsters created this myth about what perfect gentlemen they were - "they always asked after your mother", as they broke your fingers one by one. And the "there were never any paedophiles around when the Krays were in charge" bollocks.
And that obnoxious psychopath "Mad" Frankie Fraser became a minor TV celeb as the result of huge amount of televised interviews he gave.
Three episodes in and I’m enjoying it. But not comfortable with the portrayal of the “bad guy”.
Noye has stabbed two people to death and Palmer wasn’t a lovable bumpkin who happened to have a smelter at the bottom of the garden.
Seen the series now, a lot of dramatic licence used, the lawyer/launderer Cooper is a fictional character etc.
But I'm now reading the book by Neil Forsyth and Tom Turner and its much better, purely factual and well written.
a lot of dramatic licence used,
Yes. I found it entertaining but I deliberately didn't read up on the real events until after I'd watched because quite a lot of stuff struck me as probably the writers trying to liven things up a bit.
Three episodes in and I’m enjoying it. But not comfortable with the portrayal of the “bad guy”.
Noye has stabbed two people to death and Palmer wasn’t a lovable bumpkin who happened to have a smelter at the bottom of the garden.
They do get into that a bit more in the final episodes, but I agree, they sound like they were much more unpleasant in real life than they are portrayed in the tv show.
Just watched the first 2 episodes and it's ok.
For those who haven't seen it, Jack Lowdedn is ver good in Slow Horses
https://www.apple.com/uk/tv-pr/originals/slow-horses/episodes-images/