Say Nothing - Anticipation

[BetterButter]

Say Nothing

Drama

FX

Nov 14

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FX’s limited series Say Nothing is a gripping story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. The 9-episode series is based on the book by Patrick Radden Keefe.

 

[AnimeMania]

Say Nothing is a TV Series with all 9 episodes streaming on November 14, 2024 on FX on Hulu, based on the 2018 book of the same name by Patrick Radden Keefe. Say Nothing takes place in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, weaving out across generations as the story unfolds. In 1972, Jean McConville is abducted from her home and never seen again, leaving behind the ten children she cared for as a single mother. The series focuses on members of the Irish Republican Army across four decades and their various struggles and beliefs, particularly the young women Dolours Price and Marian Price, as recounted by Dolours Price. The Troubles lasted till the late 1990s and more than 3,500 people were killed. 

Josh Finan as Gerry Adams, a leading political operator who would go on to negotiate peace, who many claim was a leader in the IRA, but he denies any involvement with the IRA 

Anthony Boyle as Brendan Hughes, IRA commanding officer, a charismatic but conflicted military strategist

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as older Brendan Hughes

Hazel Doupe as Marian Price, Dolours Price's younger sister, Irish Republican Army soldier, a young woman who became a potent symbol of radical politics

Lola Petticrew as teenage Dolours Price, Irish Republican Army soldier, a young woman who became a potent symbol of radical politics

Maxine Peake as older Dolours Price

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Say Nothing was the best non-fiction book I've read in years. The show has a high bar to clear.

Edited November 11 by sugarbaker design

[Red Bridey]

I could not put this book down. I am nervously looking forward to this production.

[BetterButter]

 

[Danny Franks]

I'm simultaneously excited and dreading this. I grew up in England during the Troubles, and it was never far from the headlines, although still fairly remote other than a few significant events - the Warrington bombing, the Manchester bombing (I heard the explosion from our house, over four miles away).

My family are Irish Catholic, my fiancé is Northern Irish Protestant, and she's from Omagh, where the bomb in 1998 killed several people she knew. The story of the Troubles is one that absolutely needs to be told.

The trailers are using the Price sisters as the selling point - two sweet looking girls who joined the IRA - but the other side of the story absolutely deserves to be told as well (and there are a couple of bits in the trailers which confirm it will be). Jean McConville and her family.

Edited November 13 by Danny Franks

[lovinbob]

Agree. It's actually one of my favorite books of any genre. I'm rereading it now. 

I think the show is excellent. There's not a weak link in the cast. Although adult Gerry Adams's beard isn't great. 

[Wee S]

I've really struggled with this show. I got to episode 4 and then stopped because I just couldn't cope and had to take a step back. 

I'm from the north and even though I was 13 when the Good Friday Agreement was signed, I still remember alot of trauma from that time. I rem a bomb going off when I was 6, 3 days before Christmas. Another one going off during the school day and we all went outside to watch the plume of smoke grow taller into the sky - and this was just treated as normal. I've always said I'd take a bomb over being faced with a gun - I never sit with my back to the door in bars or restaurants. I've been intimidated by soldiers, by orangemen and by the fact that in our area you 'say nathin' about the ra. 

I felt so much anger, upset and pain that this war had to start in the first place. Why couldn't catholics just have had equal rights? Why couldn't the army just have done their job and protected catholics in the first place? Some many needless deaths. I hope that most of the Disappeared are returned (Joe Lynskey may have been found as of last week) and I hope Gerry Adams goes to hell. I hate that man and I try not to hate anyone.

So yeah, apologies for the soliloquy but this show has been alot, and I haven't even finished it. Maybe in the new year.