Yoda1118
Both actors who portrayed of Tina and Bobby were so bad that it was just painful to watch. Michelle Keegan has a great management behind her and obviously she pulls in the audience due to her celebrity hype, but she is not in the class of someone who can hold a lead in a drama. It really showed in this drama. Her cockney accent often fell off back to her northern accent. At times it was so bad you didn't know what she was saying.I wouldn't waste your time watching this, as you will truly be wasting your time. Even established actors that were in the drama didn't save the show.If Michelle Keegan is to develop into a serious actor, then she need to take herself out of being a female lead and go back to basics of learning from those who can. Don't get me wrong, she is not a bad actress but is just not good enough yet.
Prismark10
If you want a biography that takes you from A to Z in a superficial manner then Tina and Bobby fits the bill.If you want something in depth and insightful then this is not it. This is just a starring vehicle for actress Michelle Keegan who plays Bobby Moore's glamorous wife. The actor who plays Moore comes across as a bit of a wet fish, nothing like the steely defender who kept the Brazilian attack at bay in 1970 or marshalled an England team to world cup victory.The first episode concentrates on the newly married Tina and Bobby and his brush with testicular cancer. The second episode was the 1966 and 1970 World Cups as well as the notorious bracelet theft incident. The drama had to mix footage of the England v West Germany final from the ITV archives, the coloured film footage and the BBC scenes with Kenneth Wolstenholme's line of 'they think it's all over.' The final episode dealt with Bobby's financial troubles and problems in his marriage when Tina discovered his affair.This was a poorly produced biography, somewhere there is a better tale of Bobby Moore that remains to be written and shown.
Theo Robertson
I caught this down at my mother's house otherwise I'd have ruined my life by missing it . Well perhaps "ruined my life" is a hyperbolic overstatement but it's a TV show that illustrates that you can become something of a television star without giving the merest hint that you're an actor I am of course referring to Lorne MacFadyen , an actor - and I mean that in its most generic sense - who I have never heard of and after watching TINA AND BOBBY no one will probably hear of again . There's two types of bad acting . The first is the OTT mincing thespian luvvie bad acting seen by the likes of Steven Berkoff . The second is the wooden , dull stilted type of acting MacFadyen is guilty of . Apparently Sir Bobby was a leader of men but I'm guessing if the Sir Bobby Moore seen here was in charge of a team they'd be hard pressed to find the half time pie and Bovril never mind win a world cup . I wasn't expecting Daniel Craig to be cast but I was hoping for something less wooden than a pool cue Thankfully the story revolves around Bobby's wife Tina and every fast paced storyline revolves around an underdeveloped quickly skipped over plot involving very little of interest . If nothing else it reminds me that not all double acts have a woman as the dumb blond and why I don't watch much television anymore
ianlouisiana
....in Bobby Moore's case,a formidable woman,his first wife Tina Dean who apparently wore the trousers - to use a phrase from the era - in their marriage.At least in this re-imagination of it. I must confess right away that I was a regular at Upton Park during Bobby's pomp and consider him to have been West Ham's greatest ever player and thus may be considered to be biased in his favour. Based on Tina's account,she appears to be the driving force and he a mere cipher as portrayed in this series. Was he really so meek?Was he so different from the authoritative figure he cut on the football pitch? Here is is presented as a man with serious need of a personality implant. If that was the case one wonders what Miss Dean saw in him in the first place. But perhaps she saw his potential and brought it out. After the first episode one is still waiting for "Bobby Moore" to appear. What we have had so far is an amiable lad anxious to offend nobody and a bit of a shrinking violet. Although he has declared that football is his life we don't see much evidence of it. Ron Greenwood - known to all at Upton Park as "The reverend Ron" is also subjugated by Mrs Moore who tells him off over his treatment of her husband as though all his years in the professional game have taught him nothing about man - management. I think the clue is in the title - surely a series about England's World Cup icon and the first true Celebrity Footballer should have been called "Bobby and Tina"? Instead,so far we have seen the usual 21st century take on a strong woman in a man's world,which is fine but I would hazard a guess that many viewers are scratching their heads and waiting for "Bobby Moore" to put a shift in.
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