Your Friends & Neighbors From Friday, April 3rd, Apple TV Jon Hamm is back in the neighbourhood for a second series of the suburban crime drama, so lock away your family jewels and bury those family secrets so deep he’ll need a Caterpillar to dig them out. Hamm stars as desperate ex-husband Andrew “Coop” Cooper, … Read more
Young Sherlock From March 4th, Prime Video Guy Ritchie is on familiar ground with his latest series, revisiting the famous fictional detective of his two hit films starring Robert Downey jnr and Jude Law. Young Sherlock is an origin story of the world’s greatest detective, and stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin as the maverick young detective … Read more
Pick of the week Other Voices Thursday, RTÉ2, 11pm Ireland’s best live music show is back for its 24th series, with another array of amazing acts from both at home and abroad, performing at venues in Dingle, Co Kerry and west Wales. Once again, the show is hosted by BBC broadcasters Annie Mac and Huw … Read more
There is bad television that thinks it is good and there is bad television that knows it is bad, and this adaptation of Cork author Catherine Ryan Howard’s 56 Days (Amazon Prime Video) is unapologetically in the latter category. Not having encountered the novel, I can’t comment on its quality, but the TV show is … Read more
I believe that children are the future. As Marx said, we need to teach them well and let them lead the way, show them all the beauty they possess inside. Maybe it was Hayek who said that. One way or another, this sentiment is the basis of the BBC’s most recent social experiment, Lord of … Read more
Pick of the Week Lord of the Flies Sunday, BBC One, 9pm It might surprise you to hear toxic masculinity didn’t start with TikTok. Seventy years ago, author William Golding addressed the issue, though his setting was not a social media platform but a desert island in the Pacific. Now the BBC launches its highly … Read more
The Lincoln Lawyer From Thursday, February 5th, Netflix Mickey Haller is back in the driving seat – or the back seat if you want to be literal about it – for a new batch of legal cases. In this fourth series based on the bestselling novels by Michael Connelly – in this case it’s on … Read more
The Handmaid’s Tale From Saturday, May 3rd, Prime Video The sixth and final series of the feminist sci-fi drama started on April 15th on RTÉ2, but for those who didn’t catch it on terrestrial TV it’s available for bingeing from Saturday, May 3rd. Elisabeth Moss is brilliant as usual in this series based on the … Read more
How much Beatles is too much Beatles? We may be about to have our answer with news that Sam Mendes is pushing forward with plans for four separate Beatles biopics, telling the stories of John, Paul, Ringo and George, all to be released in 2028. The cast for the quintet of Fab Four flicks was … Read more
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator Sunday, RTÉ2, 8pm In a week in which wannabe autocrat Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th president of the US, it’s worth reminding ourselves how easily a democracy can tip over into a dictatorship. Caesar was an early adopter of … Read more