Dublin Murders (TV Series) Episode 1 (2019) User Reviews

This is deep, but a good watch.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 16 November 2019]

It's a refreshing change to have a drama series set in Dublin, rather then Manchester or London, plus some faces I hadn't been aware of.

A dark story, dark in tone, I would say this first episode was heavy, not exactly light viewing, but engaging and superbly made. Terrific acting and music.

I am a fan of Sarah Phelps, and this perhaps explains why she was unavailable to pen the Agatha Christie story for Christmas 2019.

Bleak, but very good. 8/10

[8.2] Starting well with beautiful development

[cjonesas · 8/10 · 22 June 2021]

A gripping start to a based-on series with good acting, suspenseful and thrilling atmosphere with neat photography.

The development is meticulous, taking its time without being boring as some reviewers feel!

Not French. Not Dennehy.

[sesack4th · 7/10 · 24 January 2021]

Having read Tana French thus far I have pledged to never read her again. She sets up a psychic dissonance that skeezes me out 7 years later. Her dyspeptic resolutions to people's lives are horrific. Not the dead. The survivors. If I never see Dennehy in another production it will be too soon.

Episode 1

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 19 October 2019]

Dublin Murders is based on a series of books by Tana French which has been adapted for the small screen by Sarah Phelps.

A complex and intricate novel comes across as dour in the opening episode. Everybody is being serious and a police chief being sexist and then wondering if he was sexist.

Two Garda detectives Rob Riley (Killian Scott) and Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene) investigate the murder of a 13 year old Katy Devlin in the local woods. The same place where three children disappeared in 1985. One of the boy's later appeared, the other two, a boy and a girl have never been seen since then.

There might be a connection between the early disappearances and the recent murder. There was nothing here that was gripping, too many people being solemn and po faced.

Undoubtedly this is a layered mystery and an important revelation is made in the second episode. My initial opinion, solid but dull.