Time - Sean Bean & Stephen Graham

[Adam]

Anyone watch this last night? Story of a school teacher sent to prison for the first time. Binged the lot on iPlayer tonight, quite dark but very good to watch.

[8MileBU]

Nope, but set series link and got it to watch. Just know it’s going to be good because Stephen Graham is a national fucking treasure.

Edited June 7, 2021 by 8MileBU

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Why not Shawn Bon or Seen Been?

[Oscar Wilder]

Aye, really enjoyed it, again watched the lot!
Good to see Tommy Hunter up to his old tricks again!! [emoji4]

[Bert Raccoon]

Finished this last night, really enjoyed it. Suitably grim in places as expected but some great performances 

[Flybhoy]

I'm sure I wasn't the only one who punched the air when Sean Bean finally plucked up the cojones to stand up to the bully and bit his fucking ear off.

[IrishBhoy]

Watched the first episode last night after a recommendation, really enjoyed it. However when I seen that there was only 3 episodes available I assumed there was still 3 more to come but was informed today that’s my wack. 
 

Sean Bean really is a brilliant actor. When the first episode finished I had to remind myself that I wasn’t actually just starting a 4 year sentence in prison, because his performance managed to make me feel the emotions that I was. Made me think how horrific that would be, to get to that stage of your life with a wife, kids, respectable job etc., to then end up in prison at a time when you should be enjoying your life’s work. 
 

 It must be hell on earth for guys in their 50s or 60s to go to prison for a non-violent crime, in amongst career criminals and headcases that see you as their next bully victim. 

[Bert Raccoon]

1 hour ago, IrishBhoy said:

Watched the first episode last night after a recommendation, really enjoyed it. However when I seen that there was only 3 episodes available I assumed there was still 3 more to come but was informed today that’s my wack. 
 

Sean Bean really is a brilliant actor. When the first episode finished I had to remind myself that I wasn’t actually just starting a 4 year sentence in prison, because his performance managed to make me feel the emotions that I was. Made me think how horrific that would be, to get to that stage of your life with a wife, kids, respectable job etc., to then end up in prison at a time when you should be enjoying your life’s work. 
 

 It must be hell on earth for guys in their 50s or 60s to go to prison for a non-violent crime, in amongst career criminals and headcases that see you as their next bully victim. 

I've got mates who've been to jail and said it was easy but watching that genuinely terrified me 

[IrishBhoy]

1 hour ago, Bert Raccoon said:

I've got mates who've been to jail and said it was easy but watching that genuinely terrified me 

Me and my friend were talking about what it would be like to be in prison after watching that first episode, and I was saying how shite it would be to just know you have absolutely nothing to look forward to. No drinks on a Saturday night, no nice meal at a restaurant after work, no round of golf on a sunny day; just in your cell, someone else’s cell or playing pool on some shitey table with 4 of the balls missing because they have been wrapped round someone’s temple in a sock. 
 

Ive thankfully never been to prison and hopefully never will, but I did once have to spend a weekend in a cell in a local station and taken to court on the Monday morning. It wasn’t anything that would ever have seen me end up in a proper prison, but it’s something I’m not proud of as a daft 18 year old at the time. I can still remember the emotions I felt at that time vividly, the horrible feeling knowing that your freedom is completely restricted and you are under the control of someone else. Being locked in a cell is torture but luckily I became friends with a ping pong ball that I named ‘ball pong ping’. If that was to happen to me now at the age I am today, I don’t think I would be able to handle it emotionally as well as I did when I was 18. 
 

The reason I mention this as the very first scene in ‘Time’ shows the prisoners being escorted in the van, all locked in their individual cubicle with only a window at your side, and one of the things I remember from my experience is sitting in one of those vans being taken to court on a Monday morning about 8am and looking out the window to see a guy in his work gear coming out of a newsagents with a newspaper in his hand, and thinking to myself at that moment I would love absolutely nothing more than to be able to go into a shop and buy a newspaper. To this very day, at 8am every Monday morning, I religiously go to my local newsagent, buy a newspaper, walk out on to the street, grateful for the cold breeze on my face, look high up to the sky and say to myself ‘Freedom’, in a voice loud enough only I can hear it. 
 

God knows how the people who are in and out of prison constantly can deal with it, it’s absolutely no life at all. 

Edited June 9, 2021 by IrishBhoy

[Sergeant Wilson]

34 minutes ago, IrishBhoy said:

Me and my friend were talking about what it would be like to be in prison after watching that first episode, and I was saying how shite it would be to just know you have absolutely nothing to look forward to. No drinks on a Saturday night, no nice meal at a restaurant after work, no round of golf on a sunny day; just in your cell, someone else’s cell or playing pool on some shitey table with 4 of the balls missing because they have been wrapped round someone’s temple in a sock. 
 

Ive thankfully never been to prison and hopefully never will, but I did once have to spend a weekend in a cell in a local station and taken to court on the Monday morning. It wasn’t anything that would ever have seen me end up in a proper prison, but it’s something I’m not proud of as a daft 18 year old at the time. I can still remember the emotions I felt at that time vividly, the horrible feeling knowing that your freedom is completely restricted and you are under the control of someone else. If that was to happen to me now at the age I am today, I don’t think I would be able to handle it emotionally as well as I did when I was 18. 
 

The reason I mention this as the very first scene in ‘Time’ shows the prisoners being escorted in the van, all locked in their individual cubicle with only a window at your side, and one of the things I remember from my experience is sitting in one of those vans being taken to court on a Monday morning about 8am and looking out the window to see a guy in his work gear coming out of a newsagents with a newspaper in his hand, and thinking to myself at that moment I would love absolutely nothing more than to be able to go into a shop and buy a newspaper. God knows how the people who are in and out of prison constantly can deal with it, it’s absolutely no life at all. 

I worked near the court and used to give that van a cheery wave. I'm sure it perked those inside up and took their minds off their troubles.

[IrishBhoy]

12 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

I worked near the court and used to give that van a cheery wave. I'm sure it perked those inside up and took their minds off their troubles.

That’s actually a really nice thing to do. There is a very good chance that you will have been the last person to ever do a cheery wave to some of the guys who are spending the rest of their lives in prison. I don’t imagine there is many people in Barlinnie dishing out cheery waves to their fellow inmates. 

[Derry Alli]

13 hours ago, Bert Raccoon said:

I've got mates who've been to jail and said it was easy but watching that genuinely terrified me 

My mate texts me when I'm on the backshift and he's sat watching the Champions League in the tinner.*

World gone mad, IMO. 

*I get him back on a Saturday when I'm on the pints. Swings n' roundabouts.

[DrewDon]

I thought it was terrific. I expected to watch one episode before going to bed last night just to see what it was like after having it recommended, but ended up watching all three back-to-back. Bean and Graham were outstanding. 

[ICTChris]

Watched the first two episodes last night, superb programme.  The depiction of prison is brutal but it's never pornographic the way some of these shows can be. 

[ICTChris]

This was a good documentary about lifers in Shotts prison.  Some pretty grim stuff in it.  The guy right at the end sums it up - he's never been to a restaurant, never been on a holiday abroad, never been on an aeroplane, he'll likely never have kids.  Brutal. 

 

[YER SISTERS YER MAW]

Really enjoyed this. Very gritty and shows how hard life could be in prison. Great performances from Bean & Graham. The woman who played Stephen Graham's wife is also his wife in real life.

[19QOS19]

Watched all 3 last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. I almost broke my fingers and teeth when he bit the c**t's ear. Purely from squeezing my fists so tightly and biting down with him [emoji38] Stephen Graham rarely appears in anything other than cracking tele.

I reckon if I was in prison I'd turn out like Bean's second cellmate if I was on a life sentence. With absolutely f**k all to look forward to I'd absolutely hit the tramadol to pass the day which I expect after my body began to tolerate it would lead on to harder drugs.

[J_Stewart]

My only criticism of the programme was that there wasn’t a couple more episodes. The threat within (no spoilers) and affect it had in the main characters could have been expanded, but otherwise, just great stuff with tremendous acting performances from all involved.

Stephen Graham is, by a distance, one of the top two working actors alive right now (Bryan Cranston of course being the other). Anything he touches turns to gold and is an immediate watch from me.

[BigDoddyKane]

Great show, was nearly crying at the scene when he is following his fathers funeral from inside.

Top performances from Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. Plus a lot of the others.

Well recommended

[WhiteRoseKillie]

Watching this weekly, as to binge-watch anything with Stephen Graham would be disrespectful, somehow. Really impressed - especially the depiction of life inside, which is the most realistic i've seen in a TV drama. The suddenness of violence, the mundane horror of self-harm, the shitebag bullying for the sake of it and the effect of a big delivery of PS were all accurate in their depiction. The switch from a settled wing with staff-prisoner conversations, pool games and the like to a complete war zone really does happen faster than the first body hitting the deck. 

I don't miss it. Impressed with the series so far, mind. Not least that 2/3 of the way in, Bean's character is still alive. Has he had to learn the whole script for a change?