Time - new series starring Sean Bean

That was intense ?

Just watched it, excellent. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

I enjoyed it as a drama
Have no great feelings for Sean Bean hes ok as an actor as is Steven Graham who is usually in good dramas
Very good drama so far looking forward to the next episode

Cant wait till next week so am on iplayer watching the rest of it. Its brilliant and has me hooked!!!

I really don’t get that prisoners with MH issues, anger and paranoia would have access to a kettle?? To boil water & do what they did. ‘Juice boxes lads only, sorry. It’s the rules’ would make sense!

Mark (Sean Bean) is going to have to toughen up to survive. But I’d be too frightened to do anything against that hard man who took his lunch and just took the phone receiver off him.

A torch shone into the prison service. Shocking. Understaffed. It was a tense & depressing indictment of what goes on.

I think I’ll watch the last 2 episodes on BBC iPlayer tomorrow night.

Unusual for Sean Bean to have a " Roy Cropper " part, but I think that will all change. Some good acting from the usual stars. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Roll on next week.

That was so good.

Whispers very quietly
I don't much like Sean Bean.

However, I may watch on catch up as I do think that Steven Graham is good.

Very uncomfortable viewing. Can’t say I enjoyed it, but will probably watch again next week to see whether he toughens up!

Apologies to Stephen Graham (sp)

I like Stephen Graham. He’s a great actor. He played the detective in the true story ‘Little Boy Blue’. Stellar.

Where do I know the chaplain from? Probably another good drama! She’s a good actress.

Stephen Graham plays prison officer Eric McNally - another of the show's tough characters, albeit with a seemingly good heart. He ends up in a conflicted and unenviable position when inmates get wind that his own son has wound up in another prison, and use that information to threaten him.

Urmston the chaplain was in Downton Abbey---the maid.

The chaplain is played by Siobhan Finneran. A 55y old lass from Oldham in Lancashire. I had to look up where I remembered her from. She was in the original cast of ‘Benidorm’! I think she played Madge’s daughter (her of the very deep tan and mobility scooter!). Right, I can sleep tonight!

I never watched Downtown Abbey EV but thanks for trying!
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Then there was the mother ( Jim's wife ) out of the Royle Family---another good actress who plays Sean Bean's mum.

It was uncomfortable watching but it was the best thing on tonight so will carry on watching. Is prison that bad? I suppose it probably is.

Urmstongran

Where do I know the chaplain from? Probably another good drama! She’s a good actress.

I'd swiftly become the most religious person in the prison if it got me an hour in a place of safety giving the chaplain a hand.

My thoughtsexactly merlotgran and the library/kitchen/ cleaning….anything!

Siobhan Finneran also was the sister in Happy Valley.

A very difficult watch for me but the violence is integral to the story of course, I’m guessing Sean Bean will decide he’s going to have to start giving as good as he gets to survive his sentence. Certainly the best of a boring Sunday evening viewing.

Looks like it's shaping up to be an excellent series. Sean B was of course very good as was Stephen Graham. I've always enjoyed Jimmy McGovern's writing.

Callistemon I heard you whisper - heresy

We enjoyed it. It reminded me of an excellent American series 'The Night Of' in which a man starts off terrified in an American prison but becomes the toughest, most feared prisoner.