The Black Donnely's

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 27, 2007, 1:02 am

What a great start to this series. If you haven't seen NBC in past month (or tivo heroes and skip commercials) it's a show about 4 irish brothers living in NYC. They get involved with the mob (so to speak) and trouble ensues. Oh yeah, it's written by Paul Haggis (Crash/Million Dollar Baby/et al). Surprisingly gritty for a network show, but well worth the watch.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » February 27, 2007, 1:05 pm

I also agree, very very good show. In the first episode alone I found myself getting so into the story that I was upset by shit that was happening! I will be looking forward to this on Monday nights now as well.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » February 27, 2007, 1:13 pm

have the irish not suffered enough from your stereotypes?!?!

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » February 27, 2007, 1:18 pm

kyoukan wrote:have the irish not suffered enough from your stereotypes?!?!

That's funny, one of the first lines in the show was something along the lines of "Everyone thinks that all Irish people do is get drunk and fight, after a while it makes you so mad that all you want to do is get drunk and get into a fight."

Post by **Sylvus** » February 27, 2007, 1:28 pm

I wonder if the Irish will get mad at this show like the Italians did at the Sopranos.

I wish there was a show about an organized crime ring of German/Irish/Scottish descent. People would think I was so hard then...

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 27, 2007, 1:30 pm

I am 7/8 Irish and don't feel afflicted at all!

Siji · Post by **Siji** » February 27, 2007, 1:35 pm

Zamtuk wrote:I am 7/8 Irish and don't feel afflicted at all!

Yeah, but you're drunk. You don't count.

:drinking:

Post by **Sylvus** » February 27, 2007, 1:43 pm

Zamtuk wrote:I am 7/8 Irish and don't feel afflicted at all!

I could have sworn you said somewhere that you were hispanic.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 27, 2007, 1:50 pm

rofl never, unless it was a joke. (unless you are talking about that food wheel thread where I wanted mexican!)

Post by **Sylvus** » February 27, 2007, 1:58 pm

No, it was a couple years ago in an entirely unrelated thread. I wonder where I got that notion?

I totally would have met up with you at the OSU-Michigan game if I'd known you weren't mexican...

kidding, the logistics just didn't work out. and you are a drunk-ass osu fan and blood probably would have been spilled. but mostly the first one

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » February 27, 2007, 2:00 pm

What's the last 1/8? Maybe it's hispanic!

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 27, 2007, 2:00 pm

I was blacked out by 9 am that morning. Came to around 130 pm.

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » February 27, 2007, 4:23 pm

I was really impressed by the premiere. Will be interesting to see what the pace of the show is like for the rest of the season. A lot happened in that first episode. If it continues that way I won't want to miss a single show.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » March 6, 2007, 1:24 am

Well I think the pace definately stayed pretty damn good for this episode, I am really impressed with this show so far and will definately not be missing an episode.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » March 6, 2007, 11:54 am

Saw the commercial while struggling to get the piece of shit DVR from comcast to fast forward. What is with the abercrombie and fitch emo-hair on those dudes? That is most certainly NOT FUCKING IRISH, unless they are in some kind of metro-club/fraternity.

Plot seems alright but puleeeze hairmet!!1

Drolgin Steingrinder · Post by **Drolgin Steingrinder** » March 6, 2007, 2:28 pm

Meh, it's Paul Haggis so it's derivative recycled crap mostly. I liked the pilot okay but I have a really really bad feeling about this show. Not really any likable characters (and God I want to punch the narrator so hard) and hello stereotype brawl at a wake?

Not to mention it replaced Studio 60, fucking bullshit.

Post by **Sylvus** » March 6, 2007, 2:35 pm

Drolgin Steingrinder wrote:Not to mention it replaced Studio 60, fucking bullshit.

It's my understanding that Studio 60 had a scheduled hiatus coming up anyway, and with the break to new episodes of Heroes starting this week, they wanted to get a couple episodes of Donnely's to ride in Heroes' wake before that. All Donnely's did was move 60's break up a week.

Drolgin Steingrinder · Post by **Drolgin Steingrinder** » March 6, 2007, 4:30 pm

Sylvus wrote:
Drolgin Steingrinder wrote:Not to mention it replaced Studio 60, fucking bullshit.
It's my understanding that Studio 60 had a scheduled hiatus coming up anyway, and with the break to new episodes of Heroes starting this week, they wanted to get a couple episodes of Donnely's to ride in Heroes' wake before that. All Donnely's did was move 60's break up a week.

Yeah well? Yeah? Well? Well? Well you, you, you...you suck, too!

I just think it's a shame that it feels like NBC didn't give S60 enough of a chance. West Wing and SportsNight both needed 3/4 of a season to get into a stride (and it felt like S60 was getting there), and now they're all but yanking the carpet away under them.

Instead they should've changed S60 to a slot that wasn't opposite Heroes and run Black Donnellys there instead. I understand that Irish Mob has a better chance of stealing viewers from Superheroes than Smart Comedy Writers do, but this just feels...meh.

Post by **Sylvus** » March 6, 2007, 4:35 pm

I like S60 well enough, though I will admit that sometimes it falls off my tivo before i catch every episode. Most of my knowledge on the subject comes from this site who seem to enjoy poking fun at the show and Aaron Sorkin. YMMV

More S60 relevance here.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » March 27, 2007, 2:10 am

I'll give one more episode a go but so far this series isn't doing anything for me. The Jimmy character is such an unrealistic r-tard that he basically drains any sort of enjoyment I may have found within the program.

Nali · Post by **Nali** » March 27, 2007, 3:32 am

This gives Irish-Americans a bad name~

My cousin was in the Irish mafi.... oh wait

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 27, 2007, 3:49 am

The Irish are the new Italians in terms of Movie/TV overexposure.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » March 27, 2007, 11:04 am

I have been watching this every week and am still liking it. I am getting sick of Jimmy as well, but I think he will probably get killed before too long so it shouldn't be too painful.

I also don't like the Italian dude that has been behind everything and is trying to work his way to the top - but I also think he will probably get killed.

I was thinking about how this series might end up. I think that once the story catches up to the point in time the guy telling the story in jail is at- all of the Donnelly brothers will be dead.. or maybe just one will be alive.

Post by **Sylvus** » April 3, 2007, 3:58 pm

Well, I sure am glad I didn't get into this show!

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » April 3, 2007, 4:00 pm

Hurray for more stupid reality TV!

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » April 3, 2007, 5:29 pm

Well no big loss as far as I'm concerned. And it was only seven or so episodes. I was going to stop watching it anyway. It was just a ridiculous program. However, it sure beat any sort of shitty reality TV program that would take its place. When will retards stop watching those lame shows so they'll stop making more.