Overview
Self-destructive, pigheaded, and over-fond of the bottle, Jack Taylor is a forty-something ex-cop trying to earn a living as a private detective in his native Galway. Taylor has burned a lot of bridges, but he still has a knack for uncovering ugly truths. Set against the rugged backdrop of western Ireland, this crime noir series depicts a country in transition, caught between the certainties of the past and the anxieties of a post-bubble future. Those same strains play out in the life of Jack Taylor, a man seeking to reinvent himself in a community with a long memory and an uneasy attitude towards change.
Based on the bestselling crime fiction by Ken Bruen.
| Original Air Dates: | — |
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| Country: | Ireland |
| Genre: | Crime, Drama, Mystery |
| Network: | TV3 |
| Watched by: | 800 1 008 009 |
| Total running time: | 13 hours 30 minutes |
| Episode duration: | |
| Episodes: | 9 |
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Modern, not excessively, but rather harsh, atmospheric noir. The charismatic main character is a bit marginal, completely realistic and not pretentious, shabby, who has seen and drunk a lot, knows firsthand an unusual life, a capable detective with excellent experience, skills and a head.
An excellent plot with plausible, clever, sad and ironic stories, with real details and an entertaining local flavor, interesting intense and dramatic intrigue, with a gloomy and everyday mood, with lively and complex characters. It is staged and filmed quite smoothly, unhurriedly, but not too long, they play calmly, without overplaying.
It turned out to be quite tragic, gloomy, but lively and somehow spiritual (something in this Irish gloomy hopelessness rhymes with Slavic cosmic longing)) a series with a dim but extraordinary main character, who, thanks to off-screen commentary, is only slightly inferior to the book in ironically sad wit. I watched it with great pleasure.
Language. They speak, of course, with a pronounced Irish accent. Sometimes with a very pronounced one. At the same time, it is not always clear, but from time to time quite quickly. Subtitles are necessary, in my opinion.
And then at the end I didn't even recognize him - I took off my coat))))
In general, evil often does not disappear, but spreads, infecting those who touch it... It's a good episode.