Sticks & Stones ITV

[DSLiverpool]

Doing my head in, you don’t get to be a sales team leader and such a fking wuss!

It’s so incredibly unbelievable who the hell thinks the world of work is like this.

Only thing keeping me watching is Susannah Fielding the girl from Alan Partridge who is glorious.

Edited by DSLiverpool on Monday 16th December 21:45

[jonwm]

Watched this with the wife and working in sales myself wholeheartedly agree with you.

Watchable but no CEO would arrange dinner in a car park for that night in that way. Utter craziness so many holes

[HTP99]

Watched this too, the whole change the time on his phone and i-pad, thing was just ridiculous and so wouldn't have the same result in a real life situation.

On another note, the filming outside the restaurant is local to me, I used to work in the building the other side of the road that the Audi appears from on the right, I frequently drive through that village; when watching it I blurted out to the wife "that's Ripley".

[Dan_1981]

Oddly unsettling and no idea why.

Completely departed from realism though. Wondering if there might be a twist that explains the departure from reality.

[AndyF52]

Agree with comments. As it’s on consecutive nights probably stay to end but totally unbelievable. As an aside, if you were in senior management you wouldn’t be driving an 05 plate Ford Focus!

[jonwm]

AndyF52 said:

As an aside, if you were in senior management you wouldn’t be driving an 05 plate Ford Focus!

Milking the cash allowance...

[Supersam83]

I have a small feeling that the reason it's a bit detached from reality is that he is seeing a lot of the things going on when they might not even be there (in his imagination).

That's my theory anyway.

[DSLiverpool]

The arrows, hundreds of them on A4 WTF !! If he imagined it then it’s mad, if they took them down then the writers mad.

[RATATTAK]

I shall record the remainder to avoid a waste of time. Please let me know if it turns out to be any good. Thanks.

[wjwren]

Had high hopes but this is tripe. Lead actor is piss poor.

[pitboard]

Tedious, box-ticking, formulaic garbage.

[sc0tt]

HTP99 said:

Watched this too, the whole change the time on his phone and i-pad, thing was just ridiculous and so wouldn't have the same result in a real life situation.

On another note, the filming outside the restaurant is local to me, I used to work in the building the other side of the road that the Audi appears from on the right, I frequently drive through that village; when watching it I blurted out to the wife "that's Ripley".

Used to be drakes. Eaten there once.

[Supersam83]

Feel sorry for the guy.

Was bullied by that Social media CEO when they were at school and needing to crawl back to him to get a business deal must be really low of the lows.

[Dan_1981]

Well I can't say that, that was worth three hours of my life.

[AndyF52]

Managed to watch till end but the most nasty, vindictive, unpleasant, crass and a few more adjectives, series I have watched in a long time. Absolutely no redeeming features or characters and even at the “payoff” there were suggestions that the main character was somehow complicit in the whole thing. Totally unbelievable from beginning to end and don’t get me started on the plinkity plonkity music throughout!

[wjwren]

I watcned the last one last night as there was nothing else on. Tripe.

[Wacky Racer]

I'll go against the grain, I thought it was very good, with an excellent twist at the end.

[DSLiverpool]

Wacky Racer said:

I'll go against the grain, I thought it was very good, with an excellent twist at the end.

I can’t see past the guy driving a 14 year focus as the level of research done. Also the arrows for the meeting - they just vanished?
Good premise but lousy execution

[HTP99]

DSLiverpool said:

Wacky Racer said:

I'll go against the grain, I thought it was very good, with an excellent twist at the end.

I can’t see past the guy driving a 14 year focus as the level of research done. Also the arrows for the meeting - they just vanished?
Good premise but lousy execution

I don't get this issue with cars and the age of car that some people seem to expect a certain person to have, not everyone is into cars, I know some very wealthy people who drive stters.

The character is a family man with a nice house, perhaps he would rather put his money into his house and family as opposed to his car?

[Wacky Racer]

DSLiverpool said:

Wacky Racer said:

I'll go against the grain, I thought it was very good, with an excellent twist at the end.

I can’t see past the guy driving a 14 year focus as the level of research done. Also the arrows for the meeting - they just vanished?
Good premise but lousy execution

Well I agree you could pick lots of holes in the programme, but overall I thought it was a good watch....the woman lived in a multi million pound house, but drove an old red MX5 worth about 3k.

If you saw Mike Ashley in the street with his tatty shirt and worn jeans, you would never think he was a billionaire.