TV Review: Blackmail in the basement as McPherson delves deep

Conor McPherson’s plays, among them The Weir and The Seafarer, have elements of the supernatural

Denise Gough in the title role of Paula (RTE One, BBC Two)

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The characters who actors inhabit have their ups and downs. Not long ago, Tom Hughes was Prince Albert in the ITV series Victoria. Now, in playwright Conor McPherson’s unsettling three-parterPaula(RTÉ One, BBC Two), he’s James, a predator surviving on the margins.

He lives in a relationship with two women, one of whom is ...