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Smother

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  • #2
    JohnFalstaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 878 ✭✭✭JohnFalstaff


    The trailer for this caught my eye alright. Decent cast and I'm always up for a whodunnit.

    It looks a lot more stylish than some of the more recent RTE dramas too.

    I'll be tuning in.


  • #3
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,635 ✭✭✭corkie


    Smother


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    Seána Kerslake is an actress, known for The Hole in the Ground (2019), A Date for Mad Mary (2016) and Dollhouse (2012).


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    Niamh Walsh is an actress, known for The English Game (2020), Good Omens (2019) and Jamestown (2017)




    Looks like will be watching on +1 as it clashes with Bloodlands on BBC.


  • #4
    JohnFalstaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 878 ✭✭✭JohnFalstaff


    'Smother' is a claustrophobic whodunnit pitched as a homegrown blend of 'Big Little Lies' and Scandi Noir.

    It stars Dervla Kirwan (The Stranger, White Dragon) as the matriarch of a wealthy family with many skeletons in many closets.

    Kirwan plays Val Ahern - a devoted mother who is determined to protect her family and particularly her three daughters Jenny, Anna, and Grace, at any cost.

    Jenny is a heavily pregnant single doctor, unsure of the choices she has made, played by Niamh Walsh (Good Omens, Jamestown).

    Grace, played by Seána Kerslake (Can't Cope, Won’t Cope, The Hole in the Ground), is an angry but fragile young woman struggling with mental health issues.

    Anna is a devoted stepmother to two teenage boys, whose birth mother has recently reappeared on the scene, played by Gemma-Leah Devereux (Judy, The Tudors).

    When Val Ahern’s husband Denis, played by Stuart Graham (The Cure, Hunger), is found dead at a foot of a cliff close to their home the morning after a family party, Val begins to interrogate the events that unfolded the night before.

    Val explores Denis’s relationships with his children, stepchildren, and his siblings in order to find out who might have been responsible for his brutal, shocking death.

    The cast also includes Thomas Levin (Borgen), Hilary Rose (The Young Offenders) and Justine Mitchell (Cheat).

    'Smother' begins on RTÉ One Sunday, March 7 at 9.30 pm.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2FtvmYCl5A


  • #5
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    filmed in my home county of Clare, will watch it for that alone see the local sights


  • #6
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,813 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Well it's on!


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  • #7
    beertons
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    I'm in. Looks alright.


  • #8
    nsnoefc1878
    Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭nsnoefc1878


    The utter middle classness of this is already annoying me!


  • #9
    nsnoefc1878
    Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭nsnoefc1878


    Seana kerslake is stunning, best lips you'll ever see


  • #10
    Clareman
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    nsnoefc1878 wrote: »
    The utter middle classness of this is already annoying me!

    That's the utter wannabe upperclass in Clare :pac::pac::pac:


  • #11
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    Couldn't believe it was supposed to be a 50th party, they look way older than that


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  • #12
    nsnoefc1878
    Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭nsnoefc1878


    Clareman wrote: »
    That's the utter wannabe upperclass in Clare :pac::pac::pac:
    It remind me of What Richard Did without the d4 accents.


  • #13
    nsnoefc1878
    Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭nsnoefc1878


    Clareman wrote: »
    Couldn't believe it was supposed to be a 50th party, they look way older than that

    Dervla kirwan looks like a well kept 50 here.


  • #14
    saabsaab
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    Clareman wrote: »
    Couldn't believe it was supposed to be a 50th party, they look way older than that


    Not really. Dervla Kirwan is 50 this year? And looks great too


  • #15
    bigroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,159 ✭✭✭bigroad


    Even the Garda jeep is middle class.


  • #16
    Clareman
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    I guess the age of the children and yerman looked a lot older than 50


  • #17
    nsnoefc1878
    Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭nsnoefc1878


    Since when did the gardai get land rovers?


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
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    nsnoefc1878 wrote: »
    The utter middle classness of this is already annoying me!

    I can remember a similar one-off drama from around 2007 where some D4 Socialite is raped by David O'Hara's character (O'Hara played the Irish lad in Braveheart. Very few ordinary people can relate to even the most terrible events occurring to these type of characters.

    That said, I liked 'What Richard did'. Another gem by Lenny Abrahamson.


  • #19
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    It's great watching all these places I recognize, I think I was in 1 of the houses.

    There's no D reg'd range rover squad in Clare


  • #20
    bigroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,159 ✭✭✭bigroad


    nsnoefc1878 wrote: »
    Since when did the gardai get land rovers?

    It's only goes to the upper middle class people.


  • #21
    nsnoefc1878
    Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭nsnoefc1878


    bigroad wrote: »
    It's only goes to the upper middle class people.

    The rest of us make do with Hyundai's.


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  • #22
    nsnoefc1878
    Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭nsnoefc1878


    Kinda apt they killed him off, he's the acting ability of a corpse.


  • #23
    siblers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,596 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    That Gracie one is insufferable. No wonder your man has no interest in her


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
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    The Detective was in Normal People. Played the friend of Connell who
    committed suicide


  • #25
    siblers
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The Detective was in Normal People. Played the friend of Conal who
    committed suicide

    Decent actor to be fair to him. A step up from most of the others on it


  • #26
    nsnoefc1878
    Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭nsnoefc1878


    Is that the bord bia lad handing out the rashers?!
    Typecast or what!


  • #27
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,299 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    Is that other fella the one that does ham advert?


  • #28
    bigroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,159 ✭✭✭bigroad


    The house looks like it may have been a hotel guest house at one time.


  • #29
    siblers
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    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    Is that other fella the one that does ham advert?

    Yeah. He's a dreadful actor


  • #30
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    nsnoefc1878 wrote: »
    Is that the bord bia lad handing out the rashers?!
    Typecast or what!


    Irish Lamb!

    https://youtu.be/RsQeBA-ITa8


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  • #31
    nsnoefc1878
    Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭nsnoefc1878


    siblers wrote: »
    Yeah. He's a dreadful actor

    You can trust that.


  • #32
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,299 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    Unusual the small tower on the roof.


  • #33
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    bigroad wrote: »
    The house looks like it may have been a hotel guest house at one time.

    I think they are using a couple of different houses to make the 1 house, I think it's the side of the Black Oak Restaurant for some parts of it.


  • #34
    jackboy
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    bigroad wrote: »
    The house looks like it may have been a hotel guest house at one time.

    Moy house it is called.


  • #35
    nsnoefc1878
    Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭nsnoefc1878


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Irish Lamb!
    He's a bit ham fisted by the looks of it!


  • #36
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    The 'party house' is (was) a restaurant between Lahinch and Miltown.


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  • #37
    bigroad
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    Grace is going to hit the roof.


  • #38
    siblers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,596 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    None of them seem to give a **** he died part from Grace


  • #39
    nsnoefc1878
    Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭nsnoefc1878


    This is a bit ****. Piss poor acting.


  • #40
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    Their setting up a nice whodunnit here in fairness


  • #41
    AllForIt
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    5 mins in and I'm done.

    Terribly forced acting. Totally unnecessary facial expressions which usually indicates lack of any kind of gripping story.

    It's of the ilk of some ITV drama long forgotten, best broadcast in the afternoon where one unemployed might be bothered to watch it for lack of anything to do.


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  • #42
    bigroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,159 ✭✭✭bigroad


    It wasn't the butler anyway.


  • #43
    nsnoefc1878
    Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭nsnoefc1878


    AllForIt wrote: »
    5 mins in and I'm done.

    Terribly forced acting. Totally unnecessary facial expressions which usually indicates lack of any kind of gripping story.

    It's of the ilk of some ITV drama long forgotten, best broadcast in the afternoon where one unemployed might be bothered to watch it for lack of anything to do.

    And you'd still need a few afternoon cans.


  • #44
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    What's with the americanirish accents on some of them..and the new buildings not being up to "code"....


  • #45
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    God the Atlantic is very cold this time of year.


  • #46
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,535 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    That was some dramatic ending in the 1st episode.


  • #47
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    Not a bad whodunnit start in my opinion, the victim was a slimey character who a few people had reasons to kill him. Next week's preview kind of kills the cliffhanger finish they had setup this week though.


  • #48
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    saabsaab wrote: »
    God the Atlantic is very cold this time of year.

    It's actually a lovely time of year for some surfing, decent wet suit and you're good to go, once you're within 5k of course...........


  • #49
    nsnoefc1878
    Closed Accounts Posts: 596 ✭✭✭nsnoefc1878


    Poor fare. Don't think I'll be bothering with the next installment.


  • #50
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    dublinman1990 wrote: »
    That was some dramatic ending in the 1st episode.

    Mrs. Clareman was (almost) shouting at the TV "nooo, it'll take forever to shampoo and dry that hair after that salt water"


  • #51
    crossman47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭crossman47


    nsnoefc1878 wrote: »
    Poor fare. Don't think I'll be bothering with the next installment.

    Why can't any of them speak properly? I lost so much of the dialogue it became ridiculous.


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