Great show. Great first season. The acting was exceptional. The cinematography was even more so. I get why, surprisingly, most people I've seen talk about the show aren't too impressed, but they were/are undoubtedly too harsh. It's like people can't appreciate what, at the very least, deserves to be appreciated; everything has to be simple. Otherwise, that's enough to hate something to an extreme extent. Sure, there are some aspects that one may consider being a tad ridiculous, questions that you think should've been answered, and weren't. So what? Hating the entire show just for that is excessive. What matters is that the journey was enjoyable enough to outweigh any dislikes that you would've put at the pivot of the entire show, otherwise. Unfortunately, I'm probably in the minority that feels that way.

A dark and well-made show about the effects of psychological trauma, but the bifurcated narrative is a significant mistake Dublin Murders is an eight-part series that adapts the first two novels in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series – In the Woods (2007) and The Likeness (2008). And herein lies the show's biggest problem. French's series is pseudo-anthological in design; each novel has a different protagonist, and although there are common characters across all of the stories, each plot is wholly self-contained. In writing Dublin Murders, Sarah Phelps has made the strange decision to present the plots of the first two novels as happening concurrently, with each case bleeding slightly into the other. This doesn't even remotely work, with the events of The Likeness never feeling like anything other than a half-baked B-plot that serves only to detract from the far superior material in the A-plot. It's a maddening decision, as In the Woods could have made a superb five or six-part series, but instead we've got an over-long eight-parter with a ton of what feels like completely extraneous fat. Nevertheless, there is much to laud here; the acting, the cinematography, production design, and art direction, the editing and directing, and, when focusing on the first novel, much of Phelps' writing, which admirably captures the thematic and tonal essence of French's 500-page interiorised narrative. For my complete review, please visit: https://www.themoviedb.org/review/603536ac0d2944003e5afccc

I'm just here for Varys (Conleth Hill) popping in every other episode for all of 5 minutes to yell at someone then disappear for the rest of the episode

After watching this for 8 hours we still don't know what happened 2 the two missing children , and are we really supposed to believe that Adam/Rob would have got into the Garda with a false identity, totally unacceptable conclusion.