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Love the premise but reviews are a bit hit and miss. It's on Prime btw.
No spoilers please!
Watching the first episode now, I’m going to treat it as a throwaway drama with hyped up character led nonsense rather than true to life, which is just as well as there’s a fair number of characters that would never be allowed off shore in such an environment.
Stopped it part way through episode 2. I'll likely be back to it, but I'll not be putting time aside for it. I'll probably need to be even more bored than I was today laid up with a busted ankle 🤣
which is just as well as there’s a fair number of characters that would never be allowed off shore in such an environment.
You'd probably be surprised who's allowed offshore.....
Anyway. I may give it a whirl. Can't be any worse a representation of offshore than deepwater horizon.....
You’d probably be surprised who’s allowed offshore…..
Having crossed paths with a few "characters" teaching them offshore courses, I'm amazed some can construct a CV to gain employment
You’d probably be surprised who’s allowed offshore…..
Got 6 of my mates who started off on the fishing boats back in the 90's who now work offshore in various disciplines from the North Sea and around the world so im aware of what goes on, their tales are quite revealing.
You’d probably be surprised who’s allowed offshore…..
We had an impromptu helicopter flight today to take home all the guys who arrived yesterday and whose drug test results only came back this morning...
^^ Ouch.
^^ Ouch
Nope enough folk fighting their demons offshore without adding comedowns and withdrawals into a dangerous environment.
^^ Absolutely. Worst place ever to be of your head I would think? Potential for harm must be of the scale.
Monumentally stupid series that will have anyone who’s spent 5 minutes offshore holding their sides laughing. I still watched all of it though 😂😂😂
You’d probably be surprised who’s allowed offshore…..
They can help pass the time though.
I always thought that the reason Jallatte boots were so popular years ago was because they didnt have pesky laces that needed tying, now theres boots with zips up the side ......
Well I think I know how doctors feel about medical dramas. Just can’t get my head around lots of things. At least they got some of the swearing right!
Also what is with the character names. Magnus, Fulmar, Alwyn, Dunl. They’re all named after other Real oil platforms.
Is it worth sticking with?
I'm on episode 3 and my gut feeling about the series is that its going to be crap?
Wife wanted to watch it. So much to watch these days, if it doesn’t hook me straight away I can’t be arsed. Will leave the rest for her.
I'm upto episode 4. There's been some weird The Expanse type CGI going on.
But there's also been a lot of "WTAF?!?!" personnel behaviour going on, on one of the most dangerous work environments on the planet. I've not done offshore O&G. I have been involved in training onshore for these workers, and heard some messed up stories. But the guys I trained, who went offshore, they are like rocks, even with their depressive moments.
Why can't these writers throw in serious hard scifi and emotive string pulling that will entertain the masses? This show has such mixed reviews that it isn't hitting the masses, and definitely isn't working for the niche genre viewers.
As someone who works in tier 1&2 COMAH chemical industry and knows SIL control systems and hierarchy of controls I lasted 10minutes till Scottish guy hit the e-stop to prevent everything blowing up.
Do medical people get as annoyed when watching Casualty?
Cybersecurity people equally vexed at many on screen hacking scenes.
Do medical people get as annoyed when watching Casualty
My mate is a nurse and can’t watch it due to how clearly preposterous it all is.
We’re 4 episodes in to The Rig and it’s clearly utter nonsense but if you just view it as that then it’s quite entertaining
Watched first episode last night. Thought it was okay. If you're going to make a point of the 60 mph winds, at least stump for a wind machine for the deck scenes.
And at least Compston was in native mode rather than that ridiculous Australian/cockney thing he does in LoD.
anyone who’s spent 5 minutes offshore holding their sides laughing
I think the smart thing to do in life is to never bother to watch dramas or even documentaries set in contexts that you're knowledgeable about. If you're a baker you'll drama set in a bakery its not a drama about the day to day realities of managing a bakery and you probably won't enjoy it. If the reality of working on an oil rig was in anyway entertaining and the people who worked on them were interesting to watch they'd just live stream it, why bother to write a script. The only thing thats important about it being on an oil rig is that the people involved can't just get a bus home. The could be trapped down a mine, or lost in the woods or on an island or in space. Its just a devise for. story where all the people involved can only face whats happening themselves, they can't leave and nobody is going to come to help them. The details of what that place is is just decoration.
Personally I'm a star ship captain and I've learned not to watch I never watch any Star Trek movies, they always disappoint. Theres non of the paper work, teams meetings or HR wranglings that real star ship captains have to deal with (its all about whether someone can 'self identify as Vulcan' these days and I've blown my stationary budget getting all our equal opportunities monitoring forms reprinted) and if there was just one mention of how Klingons smell a bit funny they'd be more realistic - in truth thats all we ever really talk about.
Personally I’m a star ship captain
Ahem. I'm sorry?
I speed watched it. 5 mins max per episode.
It’s like 1883. Slightly mysterious things happen. Slowly.
With no answers at the end.
Like a boring version of Lost.
If you’re going to make a point of the 60 mph winds, at least stump for a wind machine for the deck scene
They had one. The bonus stuff about how it was made and some interviews with oil rig workers was more interesting than the series TBH.
And at least Compston was in native mode rather than that ridiculous Australian/cockney thing he does in LoD.
As a northerner I genuinely thought he was cockney until I learned otherwise. When I found out the truth, I was genuinely impressed with his accent skills...oops!
Watched about 20-30 minutes of episode 1. It looked risible. We gave up.
It's like a really long and mediocre episode of Torchwood.
Ok to eat your tea to.
Wife fancied watching it so I watched along with her. One thing that did make me laugh is the total lack of overwieght folk that can hardly make it up 2 flights of stairs without a rest that some how still manage to get through a medical every 2 years.
Also what is with the character names. Magnus, Fulmar, Alwyn, Dunl. They’re all named after other Real oil platforms.
That's been bugging me thanks!
Seeing Stevie from schitts creek out of schitts creek is weird. But it's watchable In a chill on the sofa kinda way
It wasn't very good, the script is the main let down, it's a drama, so you can ignore all the inaccuracies around the oilrig and so on, it's just the mess around the plot that makes it hard to really follow or care about, and the interactions between the characters is just poor, with some being so badly written it's a waste of a good actor.
The sad thing is they had a decent cast, and a decent budget for this, they just didn't use the basis of the plot well, you had the ability to use the claustrophobic feel like The Thing, and the distrust element with the whole 'infected' bit, but that wasn't really used, same with The Expanse feel others have raised, instead of in space, it's from the bottom of the ocean, but again, they just never worked it, in the end it was just a mash up of poor choices leading to an end that appears to be only answered if it's renewed, which i doubt it'll be.
It does seem a bit sad that The Expanse was ended on Amazon, but they had money for this instead.
SFX were very Dr Who, and agree with the above about it just not using what it had.
one of the things that bugged me most, despite the poor script, was that they made a point of stating the 60+mph winds, it was clearly pretty choppy seas most of the time, but whenever they went outside, there was barely a breeze and they were able to talk to each other using inside voices.
One of the problems is that in reality, 95% of the time offshore environments are dull and repetitive places.
I kind of like it, in a retro, 1970s SciFi sort of way. Has a similarish feel to things like Day of The Triffids and Professor Quatermass, mixed up with an off-day from "Vera".
Agree that the cast is let down by the plot. I wonder if they used ChatGPT to generate it.
My dog approves, at least he doesn't mind sitting next to me while I watch it.
One of the problems is that in reality, 95% of the time offshore environments are dull and repetitive places.
The Oil Rig is just a setting, same as Antartica was the setting for The Thing, the life and work of riggers isn't the plot of this show, it's just the surrounding, which i'd guess is to give that locked in, claustrophobic feel, which as stated before, they didn't use that well.
I think a lot of folk are getting annoyed about the reality of life offshore, but again, this show isn't trying to do that, Roughnecks tried doing that back in the 90s, with similar complaints even then, on a show about rigs and riggers.
Do medical people get as annoyed when watching Casualty?
Yes, it's a soap opera that happens to be set in a hospital.
Once gassed for a surgeon who'd been a medical advisor on Holby who quit as he'd got fed up with everything he said being ignored 'for dramatic effect'.
Truly awful, especially as an ex rig-medic, I wanted to punch the telly...
Truly awful, especially as an ex rig-medic, I wanted to punch the telly…
Theres a vacancy for you on Holby City
What about the music? Just seen that it's by Blanck Mass who can be pretty awesome... anyone noticed it?
It’s like a really long and mediocre episode of Torchwood.
This is true. But me and MrsSalmon are finding it entertaining enough.
It's a great steaming pile of 5hit. I've never been offshore in my life.
Absolute tripe. Stuck with it until ep 3.
The trailer gives the impression that it's like The Terror but in a modern setting. So a lot of the "most dangerous thing on the rig is the people!!" and then later on "...but maybe it's not!!".
I really liked the Terror, but it did have the major advantage that nobody watching it could say "I've been on a 19th century exploration boat finding the North West Passage, and it's just not like that!"