Boiling Point so far? ……

Rugby was better 😁

The pilot film was good....I think they should've left it there.

It was awful!! I'm a big fan of Stephen Graham and enjoyed the pilot film but I just couldn't keep up as I couldn't make out what they were saying. I really thought it was my hearing as I have a cold but when news came on my hearing miraculously came back!!

Dire...seen all this time and time again with Gordon Ramsay...went to bed early.

I’m going to go against the grain here. I really enjoyed it, and am already looking forward to episode 2. I hadn’t even heard that there was a pilot film, so can’t compare it to that.

Thank goodness it was not only me. I switched off after 20 minutes. I had subtitles on but they were speaking so quickly and mumbling.

We had a pub and restaurant for eight years back in the nineties so I know a fair bit about what goes on in a busy kitchen and I doubt a brigade that small would have coped with the number of covers even if they’d all had their heads down and actually worked! Mucking about, banter and general lack of concentration just wouldn’t have been allowed although I thank my lucky stars there were no mobile phones back in the day.

Boiling Point was boring and I had to rely on subtitles to know what was going on but then every workplace is boring if you’re just a spectator . I was going to say fly on the wall but hopefully they’d have a zapper!

I switched over after 10
Minutes. it was hard to hear what they were saying and the camera swinging around so much made me feel a tad queasy.

I saw a short clip on Graham Norton and thought it looked dire. I'm not keen on cooking so I can't imagine anything worse than being a spectator in a busy kitchen. Not for me.

The pilot film was filmed continuously with no breaks, so the camera was following people in real time. I think they are continuing in the same vein.
I might try the second episode on iPlayer to see if anything actually happens.

I fell fast asleep I don’t think I even saw 10 minutes, woke up went to bed. I shan’t be watching it again.

I thought it was okay.. Will follow it.

After the first 20-30 minutes I found myself getting more and more drawn in. Oh, the mother - I could have strangled her! I'll definitely watch it next week.

I watched the whole film on Film 4 the other night and I think it was excellent!
my brother was a head chef, and I know sometimes he got in terrible stressful situations..

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We had a pub and restaurant for eight years back in the nineties so I know a fair bit about what goes on in a busy kitchen and I doubt a brigade that small would have coped with the number of covers even if they’d all had their heads down and actually worked! Mucking about, banter and general lack of concentration just wouldn’t have been allowed although I thank my lucky stars there were no mobile phones back in the day.

Boiling Point was boring and I had to rely on subtitles to know what was going on but then every workplace is boring if you’re just a spectator . I was going to say fly on the wall but hopefully they’d have a zapper!

We thought exactly the same, 20 mins in we switched channels.

I thought it was brilliant the story line the supurb acting. It won't win any awards though decent programmes never do. Pathetic soap operas and bad acting seem to get the accolades these days.

We watched ten minutes of the Film and decided not to watch last night. I know it is normal but I can't stand all the f ing and blinding and I needed the subtitles to hear the rest.

Wasn’t impressed.

I’m a great fan of Stephen Graham. He lends such gravitas to any drama. He often plays a detective. Loved him in ‘Little Boy Blue’. The ‘Boiling Point’ film was excellent imo so much stress and tension - all about pressure - drug use, finances, relationships. It certainly wasn’t all about the reduction of a pan of jus!

I will give this series a go. Subtitles may be very helpful. They don’t bother me. Neither does swearing.

I watched because of Stephen Graham I ll keep going but I thought last night episode was dire and didn’t pull me in AT ALL
I have to disagree with the poster that spoke of the good acting I didn’t think it was that good hopefully it ll get better but so far 👎🏼

Didn't really like it, in spite of the super talented Stephen Graham.

This, from today’s review in the Telegraph:

“
Director and executive producer Phil Barantini worked in a kitchen for 12 years, so take it from him that this is realistic. A Telegraph colleague who began his career in one of Marcus Wareing’s restaurants confirms that it is. It’s an exhausting watch, although the second episode does quieten things down (all four are available on iPlayer).

Sometimes we leave the kitchen to dip into the characters’ home lives, although happiness is in short supply: mental illness, anxiety and alcoholism all feature, and the low wages paid to kitchen porters leads two of them into trouble. And don’t expect the nervous tension to let up just because we’re away from the restaurant. Episode three features a car journey that will have you biting your nails to the skin.

Graham appears intermittently, a lonely figure brooding at home in his dressing gown and thinking wistfully of the career he has lost. But it’s a sign of Boiling Point’s quality that it can sideline Britain’s best actor and still prove to be one of the best shows of the year.“

Ummm it ll have to change to be the one of the best shows of the year methinks

I watched them all and will be watching them again....