Netflix fans rave over award-winning gangland thriller that ‘pulls no punches’ with perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score and hailed as ‘better than Black Doves’
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Netflix fans have raved over an award-winning gangland thriller that ‘pulls no punches’ with perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
The classic show Love/Hate, which was first released in 2010, is so gripping that is has been hailed ‘better than Black Doves’.
While the two Irish gritty dramas resemble one another, viewers have said it trumps Keira Knightley's Black Doves.
Love/ Hate is a gritty crime-drama based on Dublin's criminal underworld. It depicts the drug addiction, squalor, and violence of organised crime that has grown in post-boom Ireland.
And fans are in awe of the show and flocked to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share their thoughts.
One penned: 'Black Doves is rubbish. Day of the Jackal is good. Have you watched Love/Hate, it was made before Kin, every episode is gripping'
Netflix fans have raved over an award-winning gangland thriller that ‘pulls no punches’ with perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score (Pictured: Keira Knightley in Black Doves)
The classic show Love/Hate, which was first released in 2010, is so gripping that is has been hailed ‘better than Black Doves’
Misfits star Robert Sheehan plays the lead, Darren Treacy, who returns to Dublin from Spain after cunningly avoiding the police for gun possession.
His lawless antics lead him down a path which saw him forced to join the city’s criminal underworld.
Robert is joined by a stacked cast including Killian Scott, Game Of Thrones’ Aidan Gillan who plays John Boy Power and Hollyoaks’ Susan Loughnane.
Last summer Netflix renewed Black Doves for a second season after the first season of the thriller series became a hit with fans - and even royalty!
The six-part spy thriller series stars Keira Knightley as Helen Webb, the wife of the Secretary of State for Defence, who learns that her secret identity as a Black Dove is in danger after her lover is killed by London's underworld.
It was an instant hit, flying to the top of the charts as viewers dubbed it a 'Christmas series' and it even made it to Kensington Palace.
First announcing the return, the X account for Netflix posted a 30-second clip of Keira, 39, as her character Helen Webb and Ben Whishaw, 44, as Sam Young, together at a bar.
In the clip, Keira approaches Ben and whispers 'Merry Christmas' in his ear, to which he replies 'Hello darling' as the two share a hug.
Love/ Hate is a gritty crime-drama based on Dublin's criminal underworld. It depicts the drug addiction, squalor, and violence of organised crime that has grown in post-boom Ireland
Last summer Netflix renewed Black Doves for a second season after the first season of the thriller series became a hit with fans - and even royalty!
The six-part spy thriller series stars Keira Knightley as Helen Webb, the wife of the Secretary of State for Defence, who learns that her secret identity as a Black Dove is in danger after her lover is killed by London 's underworld
Breaking the fourth wall, Keira raises her champagne glass says: 'Here's to Black Doves season one.'
Clinking his glass against hers, Ben replies: 'Don't forget season two, darling.'
The pair then retrieve two golden bullets from little red envelopes and simultaneously drop them in their champagne glasses before the title screen appears and the clip ends.
Despite featuring spies, murders and assassins, the show has been labelled a 'Christmas series' by delighted viewers, who claim the festive soundtrack and setting gave them the 'Christmas feels'.
It scored a perfect 100 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes just one day after its launch.
Set in London in December, ahead of the big day, the thriller follows Keira's character Helen Webb as an agent passing on secrets she's managed to uncover from her politician husband (Andrew Buchan) to the Black Doves organisation.
Helen has been giving the firm - headed up by the enigmatic Reed (Sarah Lancashire) - political information for 10 years, but her position is compromised after the mother-of-two's secret lover Jason (Andrew Koji) is assassinated.
