“Paddy, play the madman” | SAS Rogue Heroes

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[@trevordenver9877]

Sterling is the vision of the SAS Lewes is the discipline and resolve Paddy is the attitude

[@BenLewis-ni1zb]

Very nicely put.

[@racheltaylor6578]

Bill Stirling did a lot more than his brother ever did.

[@sblack48]

If you read David Stirling’s biography the first SAS mission was a total disaster. They jumped in high winds and all of them disappeared. Swallowed by the desert and never heard from again. There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity and in that particular case they crossed it. It had never been done and they decided to try it. They were desperate times.

[@17MrLeon]

Dude this is literary in this episode mate.

[@benlewis2475]

If you watch the series you will see the same thing. Had they stood themselves down they would have been disbanded. Rock and a hard place. Brave men went for it and the rest is history.

[@stevenwilson9335]

Hardly desperate times brave men who dares wins regardless 😀👍🏻 we all die least they died with purpose instead of rotting away in some hospice this idiot on this comment clearly only knows knowledge by a book doesn't understand military banter and the fact that what these people do makes you sleep well at night sunshine

[@sblack48]

@@17MrLeon yes but this is a dramatization. Probably 3/4 of it is made up - like the sexy french intelligence chick - to make for a more entertaining series. Also the capture of Stirling bears no resemblance to how it actually happened. My point was to confirm that this incident was based on fact.

[@malcolmnicholas5931]

McIntyre was given access to the regimental archives. The first attempted raid was a disaster. The drop was doomed. Stirling then forced a link up with the LRDG. Then, it all took off...

[@jenniferjuniper97]

"War is f'in unsafe!"

[@BellaMPL]

Jack o'Connel is amazing in this!! He brings the whole series to the next badass level!

[@samwallace7313]

His accent is really bad and he hasn't got anywhere near the presence of Blair Mayne.

[@tomaswhyte5938]

Hes a good actor but terrible casting as Blair

[@benlewis2475]

@@tomaswhyte5938he shows a certain side of Blair that did exist. They have made it mainly ‘him’ for the sake of viewing. Maybe was an amazing operator and leader but he did have demons and even before the war as smashing up bars while drunk as an Irish and British lions rugby player.

[@CaptainRHughKidnme]

With the exception that he's a midget, and Blair Mayne was a giant. It's like Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher.😉

[@BellaMPL]

@Captain R Hugh Kidnme I never heard of the story before this series, so that surprises me that he was taller. At least they got it right in the character that he's a boxer. Jack's a boxer too.

[@Ellie-qv4pu]

Casting Jack O' Connell as Paddy Mayne is the cherry on top.

[@samwallace7313]

You have to be kidding, no harm. His accent is bloody awful lol

[@enlightenedone7141]

He is absolutely awful, nothing like him.

[@simplysimon9868]

So good and well acted/filmed. The failure and success well portrayed. A 2nd series been given the go ahead so more to come.

[@Numismatists_Matter]

😂😂😂💯💪🏻"Paddy, play the Madman" y'all are beautiful!

[@benlewis2475]

It’s just a truck, with a lot of ambition 😅

[@40950999]

Arguably the best TV series produced this year (alongside The Bear).

[@Jnevergoesout]

Agree ✊🏻

[@samwallace7313]

You're kidding, right.

[@ThePartisan13]

Yes, this is absolutely accurate.

[@TheANDROIDfreak1]

Where can i watch it i find it nowhere

[@samwallace7313]

@@TheANDROIDfreak1 you're really not missing anything, it's bloody awful.

[@JosephusAurelius]

Absolutely incredible series. Loved the classic British nature of it. Well done BBC!

[@RC-br1ps]

Surprised that the BBC didn't insert minority characters, LGBTQ to play these blokes! for once they just portrayed the characters.

[@JosephusAurelius]

@@RC-br1ps I was infuriated they didn’t include a non-binary furry into the cast

[@tmgmagdalena4138]

@@RC-br1ps 🤣🤣🤣

[@samwallace7313]

Bloody awful show and very disrespectful to Blair Mayne.

[@huginstarkstrom]

you have to watch this with the subtitles! Rommel rolling his Pandas is a classic!

[@ardshielcomplex8917]

I had 37 years in the Army most of them with Airborne units and I can say that live jumps in high winds do happen when exercise and operational requirements demand it. Paratroopers are trained hard and regularly rehearsed for it, more so nowadays than in WW2.

[@ppstorm_]

why lie to strangers on the internet? is it an attention thing?

[@Me-cu8wr]

@@ppstorm_ He's not lying, exactly. Look up the 1982 Mojave Death Jump sometime. 40mph winds... 4 deaths.

[@neil.4725]

"War. Is. F*ckn. UNSAFE!" Brilliant hahaha.

[@iyadkamhiyeh527]

This series is just awesome!

[@arthursandomine5464]

Im putting my money that this will be the best series of the decade!

[@benlewis2475]

An amazingly watchable series and character.

[@chrismac2234]

Balls so big the plane needs to be bigger to carry them. I've read everything I can get my hands on about the SAS over the years. Doing something so dangerous to prove yourself is a very fine line to tread.

[@andrewlally7828]

Gotta love Paddy

[@jeffreyc9083]

My new favorited show

[@kingjehukhan8541]

I love this!

[@salamancajose1284]

this is golden

[@mattwarrington1]

The best sas series since ultimate force

[@rolfagten857]

Paddy Mayne had a German army mirror version. Kurt Knispel the tank commander had a lot in common with this man.

[@Apollo-tj1vm]

except Kurt was on the losing side...

[@cdr8031]

And Knispel had not murdered unarmed men.

[@rolfagten857]

@@cdr8031 yes, indeed. Knispel was a much better person.

[@BenLewis-ni1zb]

@@cdr8031 Stirling did the same thing. It was war. Get over it. You have the ability to say things like this because of that these men did.

[@pradyumn2692]

Paddy "play-the-mad" Mayne

[@nothingspecialeither8374]

Great watch, but I found it odd that Paddy portrayed himself as no more that a poet & philosopher that worked on farmland with the series not then indicating that he was in fact a solicitor & prominent landowner.

[@MikeCGannon]

It is not unheard of for educated, landowning professionals to imagine themselves as simple philosopher-farmers. The way in which Thomas Jefferson waxed eloquent about the virtues of agrarian democracy, you would have thought that he was living off of fifteen acres and not running a large, failing commercial enterprise with hundreds of enslaved persons while moonlighting as a political leader.

[@johnmorgan9435]

Isn't it the way of people from 'Paddy's' part of the World, they don't inflate themselves or their achivements!

[@nothingspecialeither8374]

@@MikeCGannon You're right, but like i said it was strange that the series did not then indicate this other side of him via other means, especially as did it with both David Sterling's & Jock Lewes' characters.

[@m140i_james]

Brilliant series! I wanted more than the 6 episodes.

[@mbpaintballa]

Imagine that, the pilots knew when it was to much weather to jump from the plane.

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

It's just a truck...with a bit of ambition 🤣

[@RizwanKhan-wk9dw]

Nice

[@mrmashleolive]

Cowabunga! Interesting 👍

[@tiang5132]

Gosh Cook has come so far!

[@Bigsky1886]

War IS unsafe 👍

[@mrnic3058]

I feel like people either love this show or hate it

[@pointermom7641]

I love it

[@Grayman58]

When will this be available in the US and Canada

[@ste887]

having watched all the episodes, it was pretty enjoyable, though the CGI could have probably done with a bit bigger budget, the birds in the final scene of episode 1, and the muzzle flashes and explosions in episode 3 could have really done with a little extra time on them, as they dont look very convincing

[@Yellowjack17]

I still don't get why they needed to do an airdrop in the middle of a sandstorm at night (and lost dozens of freshly trained men) when they could just drive to their targets on trucks like they did later on.

[@boagspremium]

when is this going to be available in Aus :(

[@Spudtron98]

Parajumping in the middle of a sandstorm is just plain stupidity, even assuming you somehow got in position to actually make the jump.

[@samueltobelemmarquez8582]

El hombre se mide por sus acciones pasar de la palabra al echó SAS

[@DanV18821]

How, can we watch this series in the usa on the internet?

[@Fabzil]

Plot twist : the plane then crashed shortly after taking off and all the men died

[@villagernumber9233]

This could be the earliest usage of good cop, bad cop tactics.

[@comealongcomealong4480]

@villagenumber9233 I dunno. I have a feeling that dudes like Charlie Chaplin, The Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardie used this schtick.

[@Shadowman4710]

Not the most brilliant military maneuver ever conceived-parchute jumping into the desert in wind speeds of 30 knots. Stirling lost more than half his men in this screw up but managed to achieve the mission's goal anyway. Napoleon turned out to be correct-"Yes, yes I know all that...but is he LUCKY?"

[@Davesoft]

He who dares, Rodders, he who dares. Knowwhaddimean?

[@briainkelly7821]

Thing is, air drops were a disaster in the early days of the SAS, the technology simply wasn't good enough yet. The first real successes the SAS achieved came when they worked with the Long Range Desert Group, a reconnaissance and raiding unit in the North African desert, which delivered the commandos by ground vehicles.

[@davidcraig3716]

War is unsafe.

[@robertnisbet5590]

I suppose it's a lot easier to make a film about a past conflict. Than to truthfully report on a current one 😆

[@ardshielcomplex8917]

Whoever wrote the script on Paddy Mayne, and the actor who portrayed him , got it very wrong. My father who knew and served with Paddy described him in a very different light.

[@plopplop1984]

Its television…… isnt usually accurate …. As for entertainment purposes they change alot

[@tmgmagdalena4138]

What was Paddy like?

[@ardshielcomplex8917]

@@tmgmagdalena4138 According to Dad and some others who knew him, he wasn't a loud brawling opinionated bloke at all. Spirited and outspoken though and a cold methodical operator, "if you were with Paddy you knew you were going to be alright". Like most Soldiers of the time (even when I served) he let off some steam when they had a break, but nothing like portrayed in the series.

[@ardshielcomplex8917]

@@plopplop1984 IMO they took it too far, seriously artistic license is one thing, but outright defamation is unacceptable. Those Men were entitled to a reasonably accurate portrayal, not a jazzed up BS fantasy show.

[@johngriffiths812]

I loved this series but my wife found it hard to watch. her grandad was a desert rat in the war and spent a good deal of time in a POW camp.

[@rullangaar]

As I understand it flying in a sandstorm is really bad for the airplane engines. Ruins them.

[@666demiurgus]

You see BBC, you can produce a great series without having to be all PC and woke when you want to. Haven't watched a BBC drama for years until this. More like this please and less woke nonsense.

[@IndieVolken]

wot no token blacks

[@mischief.brewed]

Grow up

[@ardshielcomplex8917]

Theres sure to be an LGBT sequel ......

[@IndieVolken]

stirling was a numpty ; he created the legend in writing his own book ; paddy mayne is da main man

[@ardshielcomplex8917]

How old are you ....12 ?

[@steveturriff8530]

The SAS was formed by a Scot and was basically a jock outfit yet not a Scottish accent to be heard.

[@TH3CAPN]

Thankfuck

[@nuttcase35]

David Stirling was privately educated in England and was descended from aristocracy. Thats why he didn't have a Scottish accent.

[@steveturriff8530]

@@nuttcase35 Yes I get that. And I have to admit living abroad I haven't actually seen any of the actual episodes but surely a wee respectful nod somewhere to its Scottish origins wouldn't have gone amiss?

[@rosssmith6283]

@@steveturriff8530 you hear a lot of Scottish accents on this series

[@steveturriff8530]

@@rosssmith6283 Thanks. That's reassuring, is it any good?

[@dylanwest7513]

Someone explain why "David Stirling"has an English accent when he was Scottish?🤣

[@crumpetcommandos779]

He had that accent irl, lots of scottish noblemen did

[@schwarzermoritz]

It is hilarious to see them standing around and talk in full sentences to each other in what's supposed to be a force 7 near gale 😂 Only matched by how awful the calm for storm CGI is.

[@spysareamyth5806]

30 knot wind isnt that bad, where I live we have it regularly. Sure its less than pleasant but thier reaction is about on, would expect more clothes flapping though.

[@paulcarson7454]

It's spelled rogue not rouge. Nancy boys with surrey accents. Most of them were from the north. Tell the wardrobe department not to wash and iron their clothes ffs

[@samwallace7313]

The best one was an Ulsterman.

[@maxm.7459]

Complete flop with inappropriate rock music and perpetual teenager Sofia Boutella in a far-fetched role as a ridiculous "bar spy". Which in a real bar in the USA or in England, even beer will not be poured due to her teenage appearance and teenage changing voice.