I’d be inclined to watch James Nesbitt in just about anything he did, so it doesn’t take much to lure me to
Bloodlands when I see Jed Mercurio (
Line of Duty, Bodyguard) is a producer.
In truth this 4 part Irish police drama is written by actor-writer Chris Brandon (
Red Rock, Clash of Futures) and takes place in Belfast.
Nesbitt plays Detective Tom Brannick, a single dad whose wife was killed two decades ago by the IRA. Daughter Izzy ( Lola Petticrew) is a university, a student of attractive lecturer Tori (Lisa Dwan), who takes an interest in her father’s case.
The nightingale’s song has long been described as one of the most beautiful sounds in nature, and perhaps thanks to the Greek myth of sisters Philomela and Procne who were transformed into a nightingale and a swallow by the gods after exacting revenge against Procne’s rapist husband the bird itself has often been considered female. The reality in nature, though, is that female nightingales can’t sing at all. Whatever forces of genetics, biology, and science combined to give the male nightingale the ability to sing also denied the female that same skill.
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Take that ornithological observation and apply it to humanity, and you have the incredibly bleak perspective of “Death and Nightingales,” the miniseries adaptation of Eugene McCabe’s acclaimed novel. Writer and director Allan Cubitt follows pretty much all of McCabe’s novel’s beats in this three-part limited series (premiering on Starz on May 16), crafting a story about secrecy and betrayal, colonialism
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Ziwe (Photo: Barbara Nitke/Showtime),
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As the world begins to open up once more to social activities (for those who have been fully vaccinated, that is), TV is making a few big plays to keep everyone indoors this May. A new
Star Wars animated
Ziwe’s hotly anticipated Showtime debut, Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of
The Underground Railroad, and more true-crime docs and superhero shows await those who are prepared to wait a little longer before going outside again. Camping out in your living room for another month also means catching the exciting returns of
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