RTE’s new crime drama Kin gets rave first reviews for ‘outstanding’ performances
RTE'S new crime drama has gotten rave first reviews for "outstanding performances.
The series is set to hit small screens this month with a stellar cast including Emmett J. Scanlan, Charlie Cox, Clare Dunne and Aiden Gillen.
Billed as the new Love/Hate, Kin is inspired by the Hutch/Kinahan feud and has already been picked up by US cable channel AMC.
And it's been getting some great reviews so far after being described as an "epic tragedy" by SlashFilm.
The review explains how Kin is based on the Kinsella family and how each member deals with the trauma of an unexpected loss.
The loss causes tension between their family and another drug lord's which leads to an all out war.
AV Club praised the cast for their performance in the slow burning crime drama.
They wrote: "Dunne’s Amanda, as Jimmy’s wife and the volatile emotional center of the story, delivers a volcanic performance, expertly sketching in the brittle and left-unsaid aspects of a marriage and family, while contrasting them with the volcanic emotional outbursts engendered by being part of such a dangerous (and precarious) underworld.
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"Much of the best work is done when these actors are simply allowed to play off each other, raising the stakes of a scene just by dint of sizing up the unspoken anxieties or threats existing in the space between characters, and letting them unfold with artful magnetism."
This comes after the Irish Sun recently revealed that shooting on new RTE crime drama Kin was thrown into chaos while filming when gardai mistook screen criminals for the real thing.
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Actress Clare Dunne, who plays Amanda Kinsella in the crime series, told the Irish Sun: “One of the young actors had to do something where he was getting out of a van, then running along with something in his hand like a weapon. I don’t even think it was a gun but some real guards chased him.
“The actor was playing this really tough guy but he was really shook, having to say to the real guards, ‘no, no this is a mistake’, and once the real guards realised that, it all got sorted out.”
