S01.E07: Theater People

[AnimeMania]

Dolours and Marian make new friends.

Premiere Date: November 14, 2024      FX on Hulu  

[Danny Franks]

That line about "growing up and becoming respectable" in your thirties, as the posters of Gerry running for political office were on screen. Heh. Also "they didn't have anything to pin on me," because he was always careful to keep his hands clean. The jabs at Adams are getting more pointed.

Then the very next moment, Gerry leaves the room and his cohort asks if Dolours will smuggle explosives. That sums up what I think most people believe is the reality of Gerry Adams, and then he goes on to deny he was ever a member of the IRA.

The disagreement between Dolours and Marian over whether they should retire felt really well set up. Dolours was passionate about the cause, but Marian seemed pathologically driven. A true believer in the realest sense. I know Marian was still involved in nationalist violence as recently as 2011. It seems that, at least from Dolours' point of view, the trauma and guilt never really affected Marian.

The amazing coincidence of Dolours watching a play starring Stephen Rea the night before the Old Bailey bombing was real. And her meeting him again gave her a completely new path to take in life. She must have seemed like a hugely romantic hero to a bunch of left wing artistic types.

As for Helen McConville, trying to learn the truth and being lied to by a priest? Well, that's fifteen hundred years of Catholicism, right there.

But now we're getting to the heart of the original mystery - what happened to Jean McConville and who ordered it.

The older versions of the characters have been cast incredibly. If you told me the actor playing older Brendan was Anthony Boyle's dad, I'd believe you. But the older Gerry Adams looks uncomfortably like Alan Rickman.

Edited November 21 by Danny Franks