11 Dec 2020 On 11 November 2020, the National Leprechaun Museum, the keepers of the flame of whimsical Irish mythology and gentle storytelling, tweeted after watching the trailer for Wild Mountain Thyme: “Even we think this is a bit much.” They’re not wrong. John Patrick Shanley’s woefully misjudged romantic drama, based on his play Outside Mullingar, is more Irish than Bono drawing a four-leaf clover into a pint of Guinness, so full of rural quirk, magical enchantment and oversaturated tweeness it makes Hunger. The cast, especially Emily Blunt and Jon Hamm, do their best to breathe real life into the fanciful proceedings, but it is let down by easy stereotypes, a botched tone, a distant relationship to authenticity and one truly brain-melting storytelling decision.