Born to Kill

[Bleurghghghgh]

On c4 tonight at 9 - thriller/drama about 'a teenager who is on the verge of acting out psychopathic desires' I've seen it advertised and am due something new to watch.
Anyone going to be watching with me?

I find it really irritating how the kids that are meant to be 16 look so much older and their parents look like their siblings

And the scenes of Sam roaming around the ward and messing about with dead bodies are ludicrous

Still watching though

There was an article by the psychiatrist who advised the script-writers/directors in the Telegraph yesterday.

"The Light Pours out of Me" by post-punk legends Magazine.

My username is another of their songs

I thought it was utter twaddle.

Liked the song though Rhonda 👍.

Yay! That makes two fans!

I thought it was boring and a bit silly.

It was a bit slow and the scene in the hospital at the end was quite unbelievable... I will carry on watching though.

I really liked it! Agree about the casting though. I wasnt sure if chrissy and her dad were father and daughter or husband and wife.

I thought there was some really daft parts like Sam just wandering into the morgue, not getting caught killing that man, Chrissy setting fire to the school after one day!!

But I'll keep watching as i think the acting is good, i like creepy things and the final scene of him walking out of hospital to Magazine was brilliant.

Also agree about the casting - ridiculous! The boy who plays the main character is actually 20, apparently, and the gorgeous Romola Garai is 34. Just not believable as mother and son (yes I know it might be physically possible, but that would be quite unusual). In a similar vein, there is Keeley Hawes, who is 41 and looks younger, playing the mother in 'The Durrells'. In real life, Louisa Durrell was in her 50s at the time, a more suitable age to be the mother of hulking young men in their twenties.

I think it is both ageism and sexism. God forbid that a real middle aged woman should appear on screen playing one.

I watched it because there were some good actors in there (Romola Garai, Daniel Mays, plus the lad playing Sam was good). But I was disappointed, as I thought on the whole it was a bit of a hysterical potboiler, more suited to ITV. I didn't like the message that if your child's father is a psychopath, he must of course be one too.

Anyone watch tonight's episode?

Yes I did and it was so much creepier and better than the first episode, I'm glad I watched it!!

Am hooked, despite sharing discomfort over implication that psychopathy is inherited. Actor playing Sam is incredible. Truly disturbing.

not inherited, acquired- he grew up with an abuser

It's so creepy. Not sure I can bear to watch next week. I feel tainted watching it.

Psycopath is actually around 50% inheritable. Obviously being brought up by an abuser, as most people with cluster b personality disorders are, will have its own implications. Either way you do not want to be having kids with psycos.
Anyway enjoyed the show.

It is difficult to watch found the bullying of his younger friend particularly upsetting I'm glad he went to his parents and will hopefully be safe now. I feel so sorry for Sam's mum and I'm not convinced she's entirely safe with him. Difficult to watch but compelling viewing

I think with two more episodes to go there should have been more of a psychological build up and more ambiguity initially about is he or isn't he killing people. Just seeing it happen seems a bit gratuitous and I am not sure where it is going. Surely if he was this disturbed there would have been signs of it before and his mum would have noticed - it wouldn't just suddenly happen?!

Just watched second episode. Hmm. The acting is brilliant but the script is getting implausible. Why would the nurse who distrusts him let him in? Where did he get the drugs? How come he's always hanging aorund the ward? How come no one saw him with the old man? He was there for ages, pulled the curtain around etc. How come the nurse was on her own on night shift. The few times I've been in hospital overnight there are always a few nurses clustered round their workstation. Lots of convenient moments for the sake of enabling th eplot. But Garai and Mays and Jack Rowan are worth keeping on watching.

Not loving the story line but the actor who plays Sam is incredible.
Just the right amount of charming creep to make people react. I'm always much more impressed with actors who can play intrinsically unlovable or unlikeable characters, to provoke that sort of response without simply being an outwardly nasty horrid character is a bit of an art.

I found it very disturbing.

I don't think his mum's safe at all no. I think she'll be next, or she'll end up dead anyway. I think she knows there's something seriously wrong at the back of her mind with him

Agree about the Actor who plays Sam is very good . Yes plot is far fetched in some places like in the hospital and with the nurse

I think sam will try to drown her too.

Anyone still watching?
I'm gripped!

I'm here! I'm.deeply uncomfortable though!!