![]() ![]() This adaptation by showrunner, writer, and executive producer Sarah Phelps - who also wrote the outstanding 2015 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” - is right up Starz’s “Outlander” alley. The titular woods are looming and gorgeous as they appear and recede in the mist, but sight is never lost of the fact that humans are the animals who lurk there, and they are the true threat. All of this stays true to the swirling atmospherics of the original novels French weaves allusions to Celtic mythology and folk tales throughout her work. They send jittery sparks across the screen playing opposite each other as chain-smoking, smart-mouthed police partners individually, it allows them to keep the audience’s sympathies despite each character making profoundly self-destructive choices.įilmed in Belfast - with a crew that was just off the freshly-wrapped “Game of Thrones” - the show’s vaguely supernatural undercurrent is deftly inserted into the gloom it never veers into jump scare fun house parody. It’s not an utter downer of a slog because Scott and Greene are ludicrously charismatic performers. ![]() ![]() To say more is to give story-ruining spoilers, but needless to say, “Dublin Murders” could come with a laundry list of trigger warnings: child endangerment, rape, and police brutality among them. ‘American Born Chinese’ Review: A Sweet Teen Odyssey with Killer Moves ![]()
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