Rebus - remake of series starts tonight at 9:25 on BBC1 (Saturday 18 May 2024)

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Have to admit I never watched the original apart from the odd episode here and there.

But thought I would post a link for anyone interested

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yjr6

(Couldn't see another link so sorry if a duplicate.)

I will temper this with the fact I haven’t read the books.
I did like KS as rebus but this is definitely an endeavour to Morse situation. I binged the lot and loved it. Thought Richard Rankin was great and really set the scene for development from here.

DH is a big Ken Stott Rebus fan and was excited to watch this.
i think he enjoyed it

My father hasn't read the Rebus books (he's not a reader) but is fond of gritty crime series on television and he really enjoyed this. Whereas, as a fan of the books until the last few (which seemed to be flung together, with a highly annoying interfering retired Rebus, but I'll go on buying and reading them till he's killed off because I'm quite invested in him) I think I'll have to dissociate the series from the characters I feel I've "known" for the last two or three decades and pretend it's a Jed Mercurio composition.

I think it's fabulous but I have always liked Richard Rankin. I'm up to ep 4 on iplayer.

I’ve binge watched this in the past 24 hours. I am also heavily invested in Rebus for the past 20 years. Echoing others that this is not my Rebus, Siobhan even Darryl Christie, any of them tbh, but I disassociated them from my Rebus and found it enjoyable for what it was 🤷🏼‍♀️! Thought the actors were good and loved seeing Edinburgh. The timeline was all wrong which helped me forget it was meant to be Rebus! Never watched JH or KS for these very reasons. I wish they were still doing the tours.

The younger Rebus is OK in the same way Endeavour was the younger Morse. I always liked Stott as the older Rebus. Siobhan is just wrong - not just her appearance being wrong but the "are there no workhouses?" routine when talking about the homeless vet living on the street was not Siobhan. Siobhan was posh to Rebus, middle class, private school etc but she was never smugly crass.

I have only watched episode one - and it wasn’t for me. KS is my Rebus and as others have said Siobhan isn’t ‘right’. Not sure exactly what it is that doesn’t gel for me - maybe I don't like change (haha)

However, I will trust to PP and give it another go with the next episodes

I have neither read the books nor watched any previous series, but I found him thoroughly unpleasant. He starts hitting people in front of his daughter? No more for me.

So have never read the books, and only seen some episodes of orginal series, so no preconceptions.

Started watching and thought this is just so cliched and amateurish. And as I admitted earlier on I think the actor playing the main part is just useless. He looks like an accountant (I mean someone who has a desk job) who has probably had one too many business lunches.

The whole family set up is just bizarre, and could have been made more credible with a better script.

I really thought that post 80s/90s we had got rid of this lets emphasise with a man who cant control his drinking or his violence.

Bet the series makers thought they had really fulfilled their quota by having 2 WOC in major roles.

I think the plot line could have been much more intriguing without the need for Rebus to be lumbering around showing complete lack of empathy for anyone but is own self pity.

When you think how for example both Blue Lights and Happy Valley were able to bring in the dynamic of family life and police work this was just a tick box exercise.

Maybe this is how Sweden or whoever it was that made it think people in Scotland or the UK as a whole are.

Walking cliches.

I love the Rebus books (except the newest one which I’m ’resting’) and couldn’t see the actors as their fictional counterparts.

Ken Stott is pretty good for my vision of Rebus (haven’t watched his version though either!). For some reason I always picture Siobhan as a younger Geraldine Somerville from Cracker.

I may give other episodes a go and pretend I know nothing of the characters.

We’ve started watching. I love the Rebus stories.

Bit grim, but I enjoyed it. Haven't read the books or seen previous series, so nothing to compare it with!

Hmmm not sure about the casting of Rebus. I always imagined him more as an older man. Isn't he in his 50s in the book? or am I imagining it.

I think Tom Burke (Cormoran Strike) would have been a perfect young Rebus. He's very Rebus-y in the Strike series.

I know the majority on here are favourable, but forgot to say in my post, that I actually found the end a bit distrubing.

That Rebus and his ex wife and child are now as it were "back together". I suppose in series 2 we will see him being even more creepy with her than he was in the series.

I'm going to give it a go because Ken Stott was rubbish.

Oh, spoiler, my eyes 😄🙈!

If you are referring to me - sorry!

I thought there was a week by week thread, and this is for binge watchers.

Oh no, it's fine 😄.

Why on earth would she get back together with him though - it looked like they still had a connection, but it's a bit of a leap to uprooting your comfortable and settled life to get back together with your unstable ex.

Its just because I find him creepy! I think he will take advantage of her vulnerability ...

I've never read the books or watched it previously. I'm giving it a go but not loving it, there's gritty and there's "depressing" this feels like the latter! It also feels like such an overdone plot line.

Yes, we tried to watch it with teen DS, but he doesn't really want to watch it again. So, we've stalled at Ep 1.

That young whippersnapper is not John Rebus.

They should have got Ken Stott back and done the current books, in which Rebus is retired with emphysema.

I can't find any redeeming features in him and wouldn't give a shit about what happens to him if it weren't for his daughter.

Well summarised!

So I have had a ponder as to why it wasn’t for me

For me Rebus was the good guy with a moral compass that may have played by rules that annoyed his boss- but based on episode one this Rebus isn’t sure he’s a policeman and his moral compass is a bit wonky. I had really wanted to like this - loved the books