[TV] The Day of the Jackal Sky Atlantic

[US Seagull]

Mmm. I'm not convinced at at by this series. I'm a huge fan of the original film and this is just a poor update. I think my biggest issue is that every single disguise the master mimic Jackal uses all sort of look like Eddie Redmayne to varying degrees. Old Eddie, bald Eddie etc...

My thought was that he has no excuse to phone it in on Halloween.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

It’s watchable and ok, but instantly forgettable. Nothing to really bang on about.

The general trend on NSC is to elevate things above their actual merit imho. When you see people rating that series KAOS or the new Gladiator film 8/10 you do wonder, appreciate it's all subjective though.

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

When he is wearing the bald cap he looks very similar to Derek from the Catherine Tate show.

Who dear? An assassin dear? Me dear ? No dear? How very dare you

 

[Roy Race]

I suppose there was a spolier already built in to the original feature film as we already knew that de Gaulle didn't die by assassination, but despite that knowledge it still managed to maintain the tension.

Whereas the TV series doesn't feature a real life character as the target.

No - but it does feature an anagram of the real life character!

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

4 waters and 4 bags of nuts for €30, he’d struggle with meeting his objectives at the Amex, crawling around in the floor space under the Heineken lounge covered in the dust of “unlimited small plates”

 

[DavePage]

wish I could go that long without a piss

 

[Lenny Rider]

wish I could go that long without a piss

Didn’t he have one in an empty water bottle? (Spoiler alert )