Tin Star

robfosters · 8 Sep 2017 at 01:58

Anyone else watching? I thought I'd give the first episode a go tonight, ending up binging on 4 episodes. Think it's very good. Tim Roth is excellently dark and brooding as usual, playing a Jekyll & Hyde character that I don't know if I like or absolutely hate. Good performances all round, especially from Oliver Cooper-Smith as Whitey. Also, plenty of lovely cinematography in beautiful locations. Quite tense at times, pulls no punches and never gets boring due to good pacing. Also, it's not so much a murder mystery in the way of finding out the killer, but more working out how everything is connected and how it all leads to the incident at the start.

Good stuff all round imo. Already been commissioned for a second series.

If you talk about what happens in it, maybe we should use spoiler tags atm as it's very new.

robfosters · 8 Sep 2017 at 16:11

FortuitousFluke said:
When I first heard about this I was hoping it was a true western. I fancy giving it a watch but I'm inundated with Netflix and Prim stuff at the moment. Simply too much cracking TV to cope with.

It's more in the mould of twin peaks or fortitude than a western.

robfosters · 12 Nov 2017 at 16:29

Dav4 said:
Obviously he’s going to survive but the minute they go back to town let’s be honest they would both be arrested as he did shoot another police officer and she burnt the house down to hide evidence. And that would be the end of it. I don’t see how they are going to run around in that small town for another season without getting arrested it’s just not possible

Seeing as he’s the main copper there and it’s so remote, it might not be too hard to cover the whole thing up.

robfosters · 30 Dec 2017 at 16:14

No one plays a hard nasty ******* like Geoff Bell. He was born for those roles.