TV: A historical drama out of step with its subject
The new five-part series dealing with events of the War of Independence does not entirely deal with ordinary people ‘caught up’ in the war
Reviewed This Week
Resistance: RTÉ One
Catastrophe: Channel 4
Whatever you might think about Neil Jordan’s fact-bending film Michael Collins, it at least had some swagger about it. The Big Fella was played by the Homerically proportioned Liam Neeson in a movie that was little less than a sweeping paean of partisan praise. InResistance(RTÉ One), according to series producer Catherine Magee: “What we were interested in looking at was not the ‘great man’ ...