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DCI Gene Hunt

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user1471442488 · 30/04/2020 16:28

I’ve been furloughed so I’m watching far too much Netflix.

Anyway, I’ve just binged Life on Mars and I’m now on Ashes to Ashes, and can I just say that Gene Hunt makes me swoon. To quote a mumsnet classic, he gives me the fanny gallops!

I don’t even care if I’m being unreasonable Grin

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Oollliivviiaa · 15/06/2025 16:50

I love Sean Bean in anything tbh. Im always sad when he dies.

Watching A2A right now and I'd absolutely hate Gene Hubt irl but he can call me Bolly Knickers if he likes.

whereorwhere · 01/07/2020 13:06

Yes - but in other programmes he is just meh! It's like Sean Bean in Sharpe he is just delicious but anything else - no thanks. Or Robert pattinson in twilight or Poldark in Poldark - there could be a whole thread on these

HappyPunky · 01/07/2020 13:04

Yanbu I'm into Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation at the moment. It's on amazon prime. If you haven't seen it, it might be worth a go it's very funny

AdobeWanKenobi · 01/07/2020 13:02

@kungfupannda

DP and I have a recurring argument about A2A. I say we never finished watching it and he is adamant that we did, despite not being able to tell me what happened in it. I might cut through that debate by instigating a rewatch from the beginning of LoM.
I forgot 90% of it over the years so I understand that argument. Spent most of it saying "I don't remember this!"
kungfupannda · 01/07/2020 12:59

DP and I have a recurring argument about A2A. I say we never finished watching it and he is adamant that we did, despite not being able to tell me what happened in it. I might cut through that debate by instigating a rewatch from the beginning of LoM.

ShowOfHands · 01/07/2020 12:41

I'm still ploughing through the insipid Tom episodes 😔

MaggieFS · 01/07/2020 12:16

Appreciate it's been a while now since anyone posted, but as I was still watching A2A I skimmed a lot of the posts to avoid the spoilers. Just had a re-read now I've watched it.

He still doesn't do anything for me, but there's definitely something appealing about him!

Incidentally @ShowOfHands did you stick with Spooks? Adam was way more swoon worthy in my book than Tom.

Springisintheair2 · 22/05/2020 17:45

I love him!

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user1471442488 · 22/05/2020 17:36

I just watched From There to Here on Amazon Prime. The Guv sleeping with Annie. Seemed so wrong Grin

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queenMab99 · 22/05/2020 17:12

I am 69, widowed and thought I was not at all interested in men now, especially younger men, but I went to see Emma at the cinema before lockdown, and was rendered breathless by Johnny Flynn, as Mr Knightley, it is strange how these feelings sneak up on you unexpectedly, (and I can't stop listening to the detectorists theme tune now)

Clancey · 22/05/2020 16:53

What was the attraction the white shoe? Grin.

I lost the will to live after a few episodes, although I stuck with it to watch Sam who absolutely mesmerized me. Although I don’t usually feel that way about John Simm.

RuudGullitOnAShed · 22/05/2020 16:37

@SilverLiningSearching - that was Roger Roger - it's brilliant. I have it on DVD and am just about to rewatch the series.

PG is about 35 and rather lovely playing a feckless musician who works at Cresta Cabs.

Mythica · 17/05/2020 22:41

I can't be the only one, surely, who couldn't fancy Gene Hunt in a fit?
I do like the shows though and he's undeniably funny.

Wish they'd ended Ashes after 2 series though. I thought the finale was ridiculous and unimaginative.
Hated it. Total let down after a brilliant run.
Oh well.

CurseryKinkajoo · 17/05/2020 22:29

Oh this is making me laugh! We have just started Ashes to Ashes after watching Life on Mars with the DDs (19 & 13). Dd1 is appalled that anyone can be lusting over the sleazy old man Grin

SilverLiningSearching · 17/05/2020 22:28

If I was his IRL DP I’d be asking for Gene Hunt performance on a regular basis Blush
Can’t wait for the third series.
There was a series called Cresta Cabs on the beeb a long time ago, I was quite taken with PG in that too..

ScarletFever · 17/05/2020 22:04

@CaptainAthena no, they watched the H&S videos (no spoilers)

I dont remember all that from the first time i watched it - i remember thinking though that it was what Lost was trying to do, but failed

mondaywine · 17/05/2020 21:59

Philip Glenister played Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at the Lyceum in Edinburgh in 1991. I ended up going to see it twice with my pal purely because of his performance on stage and waited at the stage door to meet him.
Almost 30 years on I can still remember it. He’s ace!

‘tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church-door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.’

CaptainAthena · 17/05/2020 21:54

@ScarletFever are you ok?

I'm still not over it Grin

IdentifyasTired · 17/05/2020 21:52

God I loved Gene Hunt. Absolutely adored him when I watched Life in Mars.
Ended up marrying a somewhat similar man. Bad tempered, gives no shits type of man. I clearly have a type.
YADNBU

ScarletFever · 17/05/2020 21:49

Oh.

The last episode.

RuudGullitOnAShed · 16/05/2020 23:12

Inspired by this thread I'm doing a complete rewatch.
In real life if a man said something along the lines of "Strong women give me the horn" I'd be repulsed but when Gene says it I go weak at the knees.
Mind you, I loved PG when he played Mac in Clocking Off- - I remember being bemused when his young wife left him because she was bored - he could bore me all day long!

ScarletFever · 15/05/2020 14:57

oh yeah! also watching for the first time since it was out originally....

mmmmmmmm!!!

CaptainAthena · 15/05/2020 14:37

I've just binged the whole thing, I watched and loved LoM the first time around but missed AtA.

Oh my god I'm so traumatised by the ending, it was brilliant and I cried buckets but two days later I'm still sad. Loved the chemistry between Gene and Alex (and Gene and Sam in a different way). I had an unexpected romantic dream about DI Carling last night and now I'm worried about my subconsciousBlushGrin

IndieTara · 13/05/2020 17:44

The 80's Gene Hunt is so much sexier than 1973 version

Fuss · 13/05/2020 10:12

Something I missed completely in the first watch of this is all the references to the Wizard of Oz.
Gene repeatedly calls Sam 'Dorothy', tells him to take the Yellow Brick Road and one of the 'important' characters (not naming names to avoid spoilers) has the same name as an actor key to the Wizard of Oz storyline.
I'm sure there are more references than I've got so far!