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  • TV Viewpoint: Forget about superheroes, punk is back to save the world

    TV Viewpoint: Forget about superheroes, punk is back to save the world

    AND right on cue, there’s another Marvel TV show to continue the canon over the summer. But forget about Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow or Ant-Man, there’s a new hero in town. Ms. Marvel began on Disney + last Wednesday, and is an adaptation of a character that made her first appearance in the […]

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    June 21, 2022
    TV
    Disney, Disney +, Johnny Rotten, Ms Marvel, Pistol, Punk, Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, TV Review
  • Sundial by Catriona Ward review

    Sundial by Catriona Ward review

    Profile Books€16.95 Sundial by Catriona Ward is one of those books that gets under your skin. Beginning in an upper-middle class suburb, Rob’s daughter has just come down with chickenpox before their next-door neighbour’s annual pool party. There is an undercurrent of foreboding that strikes up almost immediately, as Rob’s strained and toxic relationship with […]

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    June 20, 2022
    Books
    Book Review, Books, Catriona Ward, Dark, Gothic, Sundial
  • TV Viewpoint: The children of Midwich are mad, bad and very dangerous to know

    TV Viewpoint: The children of Midwich are mad, bad and very dangerous to know

    IDYLLIC villages in the UK always have secrets lying beneath. Take Emmerdale, for example. There’s always some scandal going on there, dodgy dealings or arson or murder or whatnot. The villages of Midsomer are the ultimate examples of course, where homicidal maniacs can often be found lurking beneath the fete bunting. Midwich, though, has to […]

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    June 9, 2022
    TV
    Abbot Elementary, Disney +, Keeley Hawes, Midwich Cuckoos, Now TV, Quinta Brunsen, Sky, TV Viewpoint, Village of the Damned
  • The Men by Sandra Newman review

    The Men by Sandra Newman review

    Trauma and loss are the true themes of this science fiction Published by Granta Books€14.99 STIRRING up controversy before it hasn’t even been published is probably not such a bad thing for an author. Sandra Newman’s The Men found itself in a Twitter row when the basic premise was revealed – what if all the […]

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    June 2, 2022
    Books
    Book Review, Books, Granta, Sandra Newman, The Men
  • The Cavalcaders by Druid Theatre Company review

    The Cavalcaders by Druid Theatre Company review

    The Cavalcaders wrestle with love, life and showtunes A VENUE as intimate as the Mick Lally Theatre lends itself well to a play as immersive-feeling as Billy Roche’s The Cavalcaders. Set in the confines of a shoemaker’s shop, which also serves as the dreamscape for the memories of retiring shoemaker Terry (Garrett Lombard), who is […]

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    June 2, 2022
    Essays
    Druid, Druid Theatre Company, Galway, The Cavalcaders, Theatre
  • French Braid by Anne Tyler review

    French Braid by Anne Tyler review

    A generation-spanning slice of life. Published by Chatto & Windus.€16.99. IT’S A brief exchange between a married couple that explains the title of this, Anne Tyler’s 24th novel. David asks Greta the term for “that braid that starts high up on little girls’ heads.” “They would start with two skeins of hair high up near […]

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    May 26, 2022
    Books
    Anne Tyler, Book Review, Books, French Braid
  • TV Viewpoint: Conversations with Friends about life after Beth

    TV Viewpoint: Conversations with Friends about life after Beth

    THERE is a moment in every successful comedian’s life when they must decide whether they are willing to risk alienating their core audience in order to try something new, something different, something challenging. This certain something is nearly always a serious, gritty endeavour and has often turned out to be a career defining move. We’ve […]

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    May 25, 2022
    TV
    Amy Schumer, Conversations with Friends, Disney, Hulu, Life and Beth, Normal People, RTE One, Sally Rooney
  • TV Viewpoint: In the Name of the Father

    TV Viewpoint: In the Name of the Father

    This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on May 18th, 2022. LET IT never be said that the laugh-track sitcom has gone out of style. Those 23-minutes of pure escapism, where nothing goes wrong bar a few broken hearts or friendship betrayals that are patched up in an episode or two, where the […]

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    May 21, 2022
    TV
    Disney +, Documentary, Hillary Duff, How I Met Your Father, How I Met Your Mother, Josh Radner, Kim Cattrall, Neil Patrick Harris, netflix, Our Father
  • TV Viewpoint: Colin Firth plays real-life murder accused in new Sky Atlantic mini-series

    TV Viewpoint: Colin Firth plays real-life murder accused in new Sky Atlantic mini-series

    This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on 11th May, 2022. WILL the appetite for true crime dramatisations never be sated? I’d have thought that by now interest would have waned, but studios are still churning them out in the hope that grizzly minded viewers will tune in. Well, there must be life […]

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    May 21, 2022
    TV
    Colin Firth, Eipidéim, Now TV, Sky Atlantic, TG4, The Staircase, Toni Collette, True Crime
  • TV Viewpoint: Ten Percent lacks the je ne sais quoi of the original

    TV Viewpoint: Ten Percent lacks the je ne sais quoi of the original

    This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on 4th May, 2022. ADAPTATIONS of popular TV shows not in the English language are nothing new. There are countless Scandi-noir mysteries that have had English or American remakes, and one of the biggest hits of the past decade was Homeland, based on an Israeli show. […]

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    May 21, 2022
    TV
    Amazon Prime, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Call My Agent!, CODA, Dix Pour Cent, French, Gaslit, netflix, Pachinko, Roar, Severance, Suspicion, Ted Lasso, Ten Percent
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