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SAS Rogue Heroes tells the adrenaline-fuelled origins of the fearless, reckless Special Forces unit, its legend forged among the mayhem of WWII. By Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
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[@sammni]

With my job I've come across a few people that grew up around Blair Mayne. "The mad Maynes would sort any problems out" that was a comment from an elderly lady.

[@goneaway9185]

Are you an escort?

[@ralphraffles1394]

One fact, Blair( Paddy) Mayne, did not come from humble stock. University educated lawyer from a middle class family.

[@sammni]

That is correct.... I've been to and in around his house many times over the years. And it's a nice house

[@danielmcaloon4691]

Protestant with all the advantages

[@BenLewis-ni1zb]

@@danielmcaloon4691 you sound bitter

[@BenLewis-ni1zb]

They have done him a big disservice but Jack O’Connell also made him the most watchable character. Perhaps series two will see them redress it and show him for the leader he was.

[@POPE_FRANC1S]

​@sammni how did you get in?

[@ereini0n]

Love this! Noble rivalry makes everything more interesting!

[@jackthepirate9233]

Love the show and the music with it.

[@ashleyhansen6150]

When I read the book that is exactly how I read it as if it was a game in North Africa. When the SAS then moved to the main European theater it was no longer a game but some god awful fighting and death.

[@ninaa4192]

It would be wicked if season 2 of this show explored that difference. Like the gaming, fun-having approach Paddy and co had in Africa suddenly shifts to something more brutal and harrowing.

[@K_-_-_-_K]

@@ninaa4192 yup. I dont feel like a single tv show has captured the horror of war since The Pacific. time to step up

[@benlewis2475]

Spot on. Will be interesting to see if a second series portray the hideousness and brutality of the war in Europe.

[@B055C0E]

does this series show it? or is it one of those boring talk about shows?

[@FredrikSkievan]

@@B055C0E Show what? The game? if so yes. But there is also much talking

[@chriskerr4961]

The sound track is sick!

[@cesaralarcon5228]

Paddy is basically the fan favorite nut

[@Bazookatone1]

According to Wikipedia, Paddy Mayne was born to a prominant family in County Down, who owned quite a bit of land and several businesses, he attended Regent House Grammar school and and prior to the was was studying to be a solicitor. He also played Rugby (a very middle class sport at the time) at the international level. So, while he wasn't exaclty landed gentry, this idea that he was a rough edged commoner who would enjoy poitín is dramatic license to say the least, and utter bollox to say more than that.

[@halfassedfart]

He's not of humble origins by any reasonable standard. Thing is, Stirling's background is...exalted.

[@user-de7mb9rn9w]

The humble origins refers to him being Irish….the whole English v Irish thing

[@specksy8959]

My granny knew paddy she always said he was crazy and plenty of others said the same 😂

[@sammni]

"the mad Maynes" was common way to refer to the family

[@JosephusAurelius]

A lot of whining in the comment section. I for one thoroughly enjoyed the series so much so I nearly watched all of it in the same day. Very much looking forward to series 2

[@arthursandomine5464]

Same here!

[@daisybelle1025]

Me too...

[@methos-ey9nf]

What whining? I'm whining it's not easily found in US...

[@seankilburn7200]

@@methos-ey9nf Whining about minor historical inaccuracies when the show never claimed to be 100% factual.

[@ThePartisan13]

WAY too much fuckin whining, it's irritating.

[@sammni]

Paddy Mayne was Northern Irish and strongly (an understatement) identified as British. The Irish has their hero from Northern Ireland from Belfast Falls Road who single handedly destroyed a large Japanese ship. The Irish nationalists tortured him and his family out of his family home and he had to flee to England for his families safety. James Magennis

[@wolfthequarrelsome504]

Why did he go by the name of Paddy, then and revelled in being thought of as Irish? Nah... You're rewriting the facts.

[@andym9571]

@@wolfthequarrelsome504 ...because he was Irish too. You can be British and Irish. You can be English and British. You can be English and called Paddy.....

[@lesdodoclips3915]

@@wolfthequarrelsome504awful argument. If I have a french name am I french?

[@sammni]

@@wolfthequarrelsome504 Are your serious are just taking the piss? His name was Robert Blair Mayne. Did you seriously think his birthname was Paddy and not a nickname lol!? I live down the street from his house in Newtownards. I can assure you he was British

[@fullirishham1015]

Don't know where you're getting your facts about Magennis, but I sincerely doubt he was tortured by Irish nationalists, considering he left for Yorkshire in '55 and the nationalists weren't going to gain any real traction in the north for the better part of a decade with the poor handling of the civil rights movement up there.

[@frankford1115]

What men they were. Blair Mayne was an outstanding warrior, tailor made for war. Though not exact, this portrayal for TV shows respect for a tough, loyal, brave, intelligent man whom you would love next to you when it all hits the fan. The truth of Paddy Mayne is quite unbelievable.

[@Grayman58]

We need this on North American TV . Not just on paramount plus

[@methos-ey9nf]

Wait it's on Paramount Plus???

[@paulcoopmans4288]

Agree, and on dutch national tv

[@jamestallakson8999]

I've only seen it on epix now and I have to wait for weekly episode releases

[@MaxFromDk]

i watched it on HBO

[@lonestarr9759]

Its on paramount in the usa?

[@rolfagten857]

Paddy mayne was for Rambo and Audie Murphy the toughest soldier who ever existed.

[@johnmorgan9435]

What the hell did Rambo ever do?

[@veronicadredd22]

both Irish men

[@sammni]

@@veronicadredd22 He was a proud Northern Irish man. Very unionist and very British. The VC winner from the Falls road James Magennis who single handedly destroyed a Japanese destroyer was intimidated and attacked by the sectarian bigots in West Belfast and had to move to England. Paddy NEVER identified himself as an Irish citizen. James Magennis did and he was tortured out of him home

[@sammni]

@@veronicadredd22 Unfortunately for you claiming Blair Mayne as an Irish man is wishful thinking. He was very clear about this on more than one violent occasion. It was also an ongoing joke/discussion with Irishman Eoin McGonicle He played rugby for Ireland as he had no other option. Also proudly played for the British lions. As I said ..... James Magennis from the Falls Road would have considered himself Irish and he was brutally harassed and put out of his family home for "being a brit"

[@veronicadredd22]

@@sammni was Irish enough to play for Ireland in Rugby, Northern Ireland is an artificially created statelet designed to appease a minority who threatened war against the crown colluded with the kings enemies in Germany to maintain a Union with the crown

[@kikidevine694]

Poor Jock

[@psych46]

Poor Alfie Allen, getting roles to get written out of early 🙃 He did a great job as Jock though

[@scottallen6133]

Sucks we have to wait over a year for season two.

[@memeaccount6785]

Damn Good Show, but I can never unhear the Automated Dialogue Replacement at 0:47.

[@Man-with_a-crooked_glance]

Oh man i hope we could get a spin off covering the Chindits, that would be amazing!

[@aaronking2369]

Why would they do a show about Indians on the BBC? Can't India make their own show?

[@pierreverriere2499]

@@aaronking2369 you realize Chindits were mainly british, kiwis and Aussies lads ??

[@aaronking2369]

@@pierreverriere2499 no I didn't thought it was a indian regiment

[@stevovimy]

Except diversity quotas would rule.

[@jvtagle]

And the Gurkhas too!

[@ianhopkins1984]

Wasn’t this on the classic Desert rats, tv show.

[@mrdrebin123]

Whilst the character of Paddy on the show is all fun and games and amazing.. Paddy Mayne was extremely confident, Ice cold, and a absolute Terrifying individual to face in warfare.. But he's described perhaps a bit too "Insane" in the show.

[@HDavies02]

Yes, all the men said they’d follow him to hell and back. The programme makes him appear to be a complete psychopath

[@rafiolak]

Season 2 pretty please

[@edwarddriscoll6814]

Very odd/ weird/head scratching hearin new rose set in 1941.....good series

[@vincentcushnahan5292]

CAN I BE UNCLE PADDYS TEAM

[@2410jrod]

Makes two of us. I wonder when the third will show?

[@rileydavis5429]

(Scottish accent) And then their were three. I’ll carry the TNT and detonators.

[@kodiak9840]

Having read the book 6 years ago, Im looking forward to seeing the Brits just straight jump off a high platform as part of airborne training.

[@fabiolean]

Theon Greyjoy being the respectable one for once?

[@Mohul06]

Wasn't Blair Mayne from a land-owning family homself? So why in the drama is he portrayed as a humble guy as who loathes landowners?

[@sergevandyck]

Le peut que je vois, me semble reflèter assez fidèlement l'esprit des SAS de Stirling.

[@iplanes1]

I have read much about the SAS and Paddy Mayne. I have watched this series. There is not a lot of commonality. Yes they did have a camp in the desert away from Cairo. Yes it was rough and yes they did steal a lot of their equipment (including a piano). However, they were not a bunch of ruffians who spent their days drinking and laying around. Their time was spent in hard training to perfect their equipment and techniques. They did not go racing across the desert firing off guns. Mostly they travelled at night and hid during the day. They tried to avoid leaving tyre trails or even footprints as these could be seen by enemy reconnaissance aircraft. Planning for separate missions would be done by the members of that mission so that if captured they could not give details of what the other groups were doing. The show takes too too much from Fight Club and Snatch. There are some really silly bits such as priming bombs while they are still in the truck. The jewish soldier, despite being determined was simply not tough enough or fit enough to have been included. First episode was very good but it ran out of ideas and credibility after that.

[@legatusmaximus7432]

idk how you've weaved in Fight Club and Snatch? how are they similar?

[@seankilburn7200]

There is plenty of commonality and what you have pointed out are minor details. Of course some changes need to be made for it to work as a show and there is actually a documentary series available on Iplayer to accompany this if anyone is interested in knowing more accurate details of what went on. The show never claimed to be entirely accurate in the first place anyway, stating that the events deputed are mostly true. I think you’re being a tad pedantic

[@iplanes1]

@@seankilburn7200 OK you can have a bit of poetic licence to make the story run more smoothly but if I was the son or grandson of one of these guys I would not be happy with the image of my ancestor spending most of his time drinking and sitting in a deckchair. In order to be as good as they were, just like the modern SAS, they worked hard on getting the best out of their equipment and being fit. So OK with the fun with fireworks but not OK with the image of a bunch of unwashed drunks in the desert. They had beards to conserve water (for shaving) and to keep the sand out. What they got up to on leave in Cairo is a different matter

[@valdie91285]

@@iplanes1 If I was the son or grandson of one of these guys I would be proud knowing what they actually did out in the desert. I wouldn't give a shit about some TV show. Lighten up a bit, or stick to documentaries.

[@ThePartisan13]

@@iplanes1 Idk the original Mike Saddler who is still alive seems to like it quite well as does his daughter. I think he has a wee bit more credibility than your dribble.

[@BenLewis-ni1zb]

Paddy Mayne js the most watchable character by a mile but they have done him a disservice. Perhaps series two will address this.

[@tontonkeishing4524]

Name of the month vie pls

[@askikr79]

theon greyjoy??

[@llynellyn]

I love the way they call it scotch whiskey instead of just whiskey so that American viewers knew it wasn't bourbon xD

[@grahamjordan1040]

Their secret hideout with deck chairs outside , 2 30 ft scaffold towers , 2 enormous flags on the fort oh yeh very secret 🤫

[@seankilburn7200]

Do stop whining. Yet another complaint about such minor details. It’s not exactly that hard to believe anyway as Libya is incredibly vast and they were located deep within the desert.

[@sammni]

Context please.... Where was it? - Sahara desert What time period? - 1940s (early) Technology - half hand written maps/local knowledge Fail

[@knightnight1894]

19th of Oct. 1937, China, the campaign of Shanxi, several hundreds of Chinese infantrymen, attacked a Japanese airfield at night, destroyed 24 warplanes on the ground. Those men didn't have special training, didn't have any vehicles, they didn't even have enough machine guns, all they had just rifles and hand grenades, and their determination to protect their country from brutal Japanese invasion.

[@akkshaye_d7603]

is that liverpool accent?

[@tontonkeishing4524]

Movie

[@michaelapicella9218]

A Man of Honour, justly accomodated by his true friends.

[@Grayman58]

Yeh should have got a better taller heavier paddy mayne

[@philipstanley8142]

I am guessing that you need the right actor who can do a Northern Irish accent. There may not have been a suitable 6 feet 4 inch actor available. Tom Cruise was cast as Jack Reacher in the films yet in the Lee Childs books the character is 6 feet 4 inch and built like a brick outhouse.

[@robertmontgomery7158]

So wears sun glasses and always looks over the top?

[@sidthorat]

Once u read the book...it feels sad to watch the exaggerated movements and dialogues here

[@InvestStrategyWire]

Is it just me but don't they all look like actors. Sneeze and they would all fall over. 🤧🤧🤧

[@artisaprimus6306]

Sadly, there are very few men like these heroes today. I say that with respect given to men who serve in elite units today. Those are the very few men I'm referring to.

[@17MrLeon]

You would be suprised, I heard about such Paddy Maynes in todays War. Like the guy nome de guere called "New York, from Aidar batalion in Ukraine who went without plate carrier without his main weapon armed just with a glock to climb on a tank (could have been BMP) and opened the hatch and killed its crew and then drove away with that vehicle and claim it as his own. If that aint some crazy mad lad shit i dont know what is.

[@artisaprimus6306]

@@17MrLeon No argument here. I'm a civilian,so I wouldn't have access to all information regarding military action. That's why I qualified my statement.

[@noremorsewoodworking2258]

The British Army numbered millions at the time, the SAS were at most of company size, so they were indeed "the very few".

[@jango156]

So is it like the old rat patrol series

[@adventussaxonum448]

Not quite. It's based on real events and isn't American.

[@alexander.1a]

First

[@Gg-ij7li]

Jesus loves you all!! Remember that He died and rose up again for you to be in heaven with Him! Believe on His name and repent of your sins and be saved! Have an amazing day ❤️

[@robertneven7563]

the real men of the S A S did t talk so much

[@raymondhaskin9449]

He doesn’t do a very good Ulster accent.

[@amberleaf3n144]

I've heard worse. Also there's about 20 different accents in ulster. Pick the closest.

[@padraig6200]

I'm from Ulster, Ulster is made up of 9 counties with extremely different accents and extreme variants within each county. He actually doesn't do a bad newtonards accent, it's not amazing and it definitely slips in places but for an Englishman and compared to the standard of other Irish accents on TV and film, it's not baf

[@celticcheetah6371]

@@padraig6200yeah, I’m English but my Dad is from that part of Down and his accent sounds pretty decent to me. A few slips round the edges but he’s got the vowels alright.

[@raymondhaskin9449]

@@padraig6200 Your mistake is thinking Ulster accents are Irish. But in truth, they’re actually Scottish. Hence why the people in Northern Ireland heavily use words like aye, wee, lass, etc. These are Scots language words - from northern Britain - zero relationship with people in Southern Ireland.

[@padraig6200]

@@raymondhaskin9449 >Ulster accents are Scottish >Describes Scottish terminology not accents >Ulster is a province on the island of Ireland Ok bro, the Irish language uses words from English and Scots also (clabbar, craic), is Irish Gaeilge now a Scottish language?

[@kiwishamoo6494]

Not enough New Zealand accents

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

Lines delivered as if on stage. Looks and sounds awful.

[@user-qe9xz2jr9j]

Funny how they are in a desert and their hair is all combed and gelled . Not really a true reflection of what happoened . Go and look for the actual photos ! Will paint a different picture .

[@denishetherington1386]

This is TOTAL CR~P and a waste of the licence fee

[@Damian-qu2fg]

awful acting

[@MarvinofMars]

A total mess of a show. Paddy Mayne is portraited as a drunk and a hot head. Yet interviews of the 1st Air service all say the complete opposite. 6ft 4inch, 18 stone, very cool headed in a fire fight. British Lion player, and a qualified Lawyer. Parallels with Tom Cruise and Jack Reacher. Jack O Connell is a fine actor but he is is no Paddy Mayne. Very disappointing.

[@Gazemir]

Not sure you’ve seen the same documentaries about him as I have. I don’t think I’ve seen much where Paddy Mayne’s exploits in WW2 were described as “calm and collected”.

[@korgothofbarbaria2841]

I finished SAS Rouge Heroes yesterday. Paddy jumped into France with gramophone and collection of favorite records. Show is very good beacuse everything around SAS to this point is mix of myths and reality beacuse that was idea behind forming SAS. Never to give complete picture and allways perserve this fog of mistery.

[@niallrussell7184]

@@korgothofbarbaria2841 which is a more likely story? He went awol, and parachuted into Belgium, with a bottle of Bushmills to surprise my grandfather Ted Griffths DFC, because he had been shot down, and was convalescing in hospital.

[@petermortimer6303]

Paddy Mayne wasn't a hot-head in battle but he did get roaring drunk at times and during those benders he was likely to beat anyone up and not recall it. Paddy Mayne hated foul language and never swore which they have him doing in this series. I haven't seen this series yet but the bits I've watched on You Tube give me the impression that they have taken liberties with the truth. For instance is this video supposed to portray Stirling giving orders for an attack on a number of airfields. No one, not even with guys as experienced as the SAS would give such loose direction. I also think they used the story that when Stirling recruited Mayne he (Mayne) was under arrest for striking his CO, That has been proved to be a complete fabrication but gets repeated often. That always happens in this type of program but the real story of what the SAS did in North Africa does not need embellishment. "Paddy Mayne" by Hamish Ross is worth a read.

[@tobytaylor2154]

@@petermortimer6303 they don't just have paddy speaking out of his ways, everyone is, the dialogue isn't of the time. That's just one of a cpl of things they got wrong. Still a bloody good watch though.

[@ericambler486]

Stereotyped characters, more like caricatures, unrealistic and superficial representation of military life, a script with such perpetual profanity it sounds like it was written by a 14 year old, incongruous use of modern rock and metal music with a 1940's setting, tedious and incoherent storylines .. above all, an insult to the real men upon whom this abomination of a TV show is based. Annoyed with myself for wasting £12 on this BBC garbage .. I watched the first episode and won't be watching any more .. would rather waste my money than my time.

[@alberlusconi1]

Wow, this looks awful

[@samwallace7313]

It is awful lol

[@S4KCx]

In what way

[@S4KCx]

In what way

[@samwallace7313]

@@S4KCx Jack O'Donnell's accent for a start.

[@S4KCx]

@@samwallace7313 sounds a pretty decent newtonards accent to me

[@veronicadredd22]

Casting a guy who is 175cm to play a Giant of a man in Paddy Mayne who was 190cm is an insult then they cast shades on him by giving him homosexual undertones. Sterling was 198cm they both lack the physical presence and dominance of Giants of a men they were

[@joachimmacdonald2702]

fellas, is it gay to wear sunglasses?

[@user-bx4mz9qe6y]

You don't know what you are talking about

[@1sexymary]

Whens it coming to Australia

[@JOH129672]

SBS ‘sometime in 2023’

[@ALLRNDCRICKETER]

@@JOH129672 booooooooooooooooooo, looks like ill be watching it somewhere else, & then buy the series when it comes out