The Black Donnellys

Ferrari5180 · 03-15-2010, 01:12 PM

Has anyone every watch this Television Show? It has to be the best that I have ever watched. This is my second time watching the first season, and I am loving it every time I watch it. I think everyone should watch it at some point in their life. Let me know those who have or are interested.

About: The series follows four young Roman Catholic Irish-American brothers in Hell's Kitchen and their involvement with organized crime.[1] Although the show is set in the present day, it draws heavily upon Irish-American history and iconic themes. The pilot episode illustrates a clear tension and rivalry between the Irish and the Italians. The episodes are narrated by a childhood friend, Joey "Ice Cream", whom the show depicts as an unreliable narrator. In creating the show, Haggis, a native of London, Ontario, strongly referenced his hometown's local history about the real-life Black Donnellys and the massacre associated with their name. In the pilot episode, Joey says that the neighborhood is populated primarily by "Black Irish", whom he calls "a race of dark-haired people" that the Celts had failed to wipe out in Ireland. Hell's Kitchen in the series is also a fairly faithful depiction - a traditionally working class neighborhood with a deeply entrenched ethnic Irish population and an Irish Mob with control over gambling, loansharking, and heavy involvement in the unions. Although the Black Donnellys is set in 2005, Hell's Kitchen is shown to be slowly overtaken by gentrification and development that threatens to displace the Irish population, a fate that Hell's Kitchen actually succumbed to in the early 1990s. (Wikipedia)

They took the show off the air due to the declining rate of viewers during the first three episodes and because they ran out of money. NBC canceled the show and replaced it with some other reality tv show, as always. All other episodes from 4-13 were streamed online.

** Here is the Youtube link to the 1st Episode **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpE4uJAHnNo

(Follow the links on the left hand to continue throughout the parts.)

Enjoy!

03-15-2010, 01:12 PM	#1
Ferrari5180 Adjusting to the Life Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 433 Trading: (0)	The Black Donnellys Has anyone every watch this Television Show? It has to be the best that I have ever watched. This is my second time watching the first season, and I am loving it every time I watch it. I think everyone should watch it at some point in their life. Let me know those who have or are interested. About: The series follows four young Roman Catholic Irish-American brothers in Hell's Kitchen and their involvement with organized crime.[1] Although the show is set in the present day, it draws heavily upon Irish-American history and iconic themes. The pilot episode illustrates a clear tension and rivalry between the Irish and the Italians. The episodes are narrated by a childhood friend, Joey "Ice Cream", whom the show depicts as an unreliable narrator. In creating the show, Haggis, a native of London, Ontario, strongly referenced his hometown's local history about the real-life Black Donnellys and the massacre associated with their name. In the pilot episode, Joey says that the neighborhood is populated primarily by "Black Irish", whom he calls "a race of dark-haired people" that the Celts had failed to wipe out in Ireland. Hell's Kitchen in the series is also a fairly faithful depiction - a traditionally working class neighborhood with a deeply entrenched ethnic Irish population and an Irish Mob with control over gambling, loansharking, and heavy involvement in the unions. Although the Black Donnellys is set in 2005, Hell's Kitchen is shown to be slowly overtaken by gentrification and development that threatens to displace the Irish population, a fate that Hell's Kitchen actually succumbed to in the early 1990s. (Wikipedia) They took the show off the air due to the declining rate of viewers during the first three episodes and because they ran out of money. NBC canceled the show and replaced it with some other reality tv show, as always. All other episodes from 4-13 were streamed online. Here is the Youtube link to the 1st Episode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpE4uJAHnNo (Follow the links on the left hand to continue throughout the parts.) Enjoy!