TV: Crowe flies in to rescue the Rising
Rebellion was a drama without scope or subtlety
Reviewed this week
Rebellion RTÉ One
Life Before the Rising RTÉ One
Bridget and Eamon RTÉ One
In terms of historical drama, context is everything.Rebellion(RTÉ One) sprang at us with little sense of context, other than the beginning of the First World War, and, after the first episode, lurched forward in time to the eve of the Rising in 1916. Suddenly people were running around Dublin killing each other. Whatever for?
There was ...