The Black Donnellys

[BangkokB]

I just bought this and watched it from start to finish. Great show: I particularly liked the narrating by whoever it was that was the pathological liar/great Irish storyteller. You had to make a chore out of what he created in his mind and how it really went down. More shows on networks TV need to follow this course. And the mix of talent from The Wire and OZ wasn't lost on me. They had the best and brightest. But Tommy, who I'd never seen before on film, was a risk that pulled off well.

Particularly I'm a fan of how this probably just a One Season Show. That's Balls if the network follows through with. Though, I would like to hear whatever his name was say~ALRIGHT IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, HERE'S HOW IT GOES


There was better narrating in OZ by Augustus Hill but he wasn't a chronic liar. He brought forth wisdom whereas The Black Donnelly Guy saw life through rose colored glasses and on a slanted level of reality.


Question: Is North Eastern US like that? Are the Irish and the Italians really an issue? It's established, very late in the game, that they are in some part of New York. What I would really like to know is there any truth to that it seems that in any upper Eastern tip your last name really plays a large part of your destiny. Is that Hollywood cliche or is art imitating life? Just curious. I'm from Georgia- We don't care if you're from Canada, Kansas, or Kingston. There was no such thing as white prejudice. While the shows that display North Eastern America seems to play that fiddle alot. So there has to be a little truth to it but how far?

[ToucanSpam]

The only thing I know about this show is that it poached its name from a famous Canadian crime case.

[BangkokB]

Nice(y) Didn't Know that
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/family/donnelly/1.html

But this is more of an Irish pissing contest versus everyone else in the families way. And, I have to admit, that type of brotherhood for better or for worse, is something I envy. Blood is thicker than water and the talker knew that as well. Even in the end when they let him in the van, or did they?, it was still about brotherhood.

I don't think he was included in the Toast of From Now On It's Just Us

He saw something magnificent that happened but he wasn't a part of it. He was painting walls with a microbrush

[beastieangel01]

this has nothing to do with the show, but the name Donnelly is fucking haunting me like all hell. I cannot seem to escape it, even when I try.

[YoungRemy]

i just found this thread, Bangkok, after searching for old tv show threads...

this is a note for you, since you like the unreliable narrator angle so much. The show's original title was "The Truth According to Joey Ice Cream" and they indeed ripped the whole "Black Donnellys" with the help of Paul Haggis' growing up in Canada.

even the whole "Black Irish" thing was lost on half the viewers.

but you were right, that show was destined to never make it past season one... it would have been interesting to see why Joey was in jail and how the family turned against him or vice versa...

[ScarySquirrel]

Back before it aired, Netflix had a thing where you could get a special DVD with the pilot episode on it and I checked it out.

I wasn't into it though and figured it wouldn't make it past its first season. Sucks for the people who thought they had good gigs acting in it though, eh?