and Jason O'Mara is Irish.

He just gets yummier.

Unlike some of the rest of y'alls, I like him as Sam. I like John Simm, too, but I think JO'M is just different, not worse.

Harvey Keitel, on the other hand, Is No Phillip Glenister. Can't put my finger on exactly what's wrong with his performance, but whatever it is, it's Really Wrong.

Keitel is what killed the show for me. Can Not Take The Over Acting.

Gene should dwarf Sam. Keitel, despite his intensity, in no way dwarfs Jason O'Mara.

And I still don't like their putting the show in New York. It's not an equivalent to Manchester.

I agree about New York. It works for other reasons but I think a rustbelt city like Pittsburgh or Detroit would have been a better choice.

And yeah, Keitel as Gene just doesn't work.

I'm again mourning the loss of Colm Meaney in that part.

dude...perfect. Even if I'll always think he's Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.

NY in the 70s isn't slightly depressing. Manchester had a feeling of no hope. All apologies to Mancunians.

It works for other reasons but I think a rustbelt city like Pittsburgh or Detroit would have been a better choice.

I think this change would have kept me watching the American version. It being set in NYC really makes me want to nit-pick the resources available in 1973.

NY in the 70s isn't slightly depressing. Manchester had a feeling of no hope.

NY in the 70s was pretty damn depressing, unless you were a Yankees fan. However, it was not, and never will be, an industrial city. None of the buroughs is really that type of city, let alone Manhattan.

Or maybe they could've created a composite...like Hill Street.Which is Chicayorkadelphiaburgh. "Rescue Me" writes better about the towers anyway. Of course, Baltimore is industrial, but they made that show already. It would be fun to me to read the city fathers wigging about their image when another cop show comes to town. Scranton, but only if John Krasinski shows up once a season to make faces in the camera.