The one-hour special will be followed by a second on Wednesday. The big challenge in approaching the finale’s opening instalment on Monday night is recalling where we had left off.
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The great Irish TV scrapheap loomed for a series originally unveiled as the jewel in the glittering middle-brow tiara of TV3 (as it then was). Last spring’s shuttering had followed an August 2017 “hiatus”, caused by the sale of the show’s set at the old John Player factory in Dublin. What a terribly bumpy journey it was turning into. Red Rock’s greatest attribute – but also perhaps the creative risk that sealed its fate – was that it attempted to span several genres Red Rock’s abrupt finish was, by contrast, a result of circumstance rather than any creative choices by writer Paul Walker. It was like the end of the Sopranos only the end of the Sopranos was a painstakingly-triangulated artistic statement. Nefarious politician/cocaine dealer Tom Callaghan (Barry O’Connor) had plunged to his seeming death, his Garda chum Kevin Dunne (Conor Mullen) looking on in horror and we cut to black. How extraordinary.Īn inauspicious demise had loomed for the popular (ish) seaside soap when it went off the airwaves last February. We’ve reached 2020 and it is still a thing. Yes, Red Rock, the one with the guards and the lighthouse and the soft-rock blaring a little too enthusiastically over the opening credits. The first thing that needs to be said about this week’s two-part finale to Virgin Media One’s Red Rock is that there is a two-part finale.
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